 Our next caller is Emily from Nebraska. Hey, Emily, how can we help you? Hi there, guys. First of all, I just wanna thank you for having me on. It means a lot and I'm really excited to get to talk to you today. Cool. So my question is, or kind of a little bit of background, in high school and in college, I was a shop putter. I loved it, loved the training. I was all about it. And then my sophomore year of college, I hurt my shoulder. And so I ended up not participating or competing my junior and senior year. After that, I felt like life just kind of happened. And I kind of started to develop, I mean, I would describe it as a bad relationship with my health. I really started looking at the physical more than the internal and just what health truly was for me. And so I started working with a coach two years ago now and that's how I was actually introduced to you guys. And so she started having me run anabolic and also a little bit of map strong. But this past spring, I had the opportunity to coach shop put again. And I just, I realized how much I missed it. I had so much fun with it. I really felt that sense of happiness and health when I was doing that kind of thing. So right now I'm kind of wondering if I'm in that, I need something different phase. So I was wondering, is it okay if I were to run one of your programs that would be more of a shot put thrower oriented program over like an anabolic even if I don't regularly throw the shop put anymore. And I don't really have a way of measuring my progress as far as throwing the shop put because there aren't a lot of competitions around here like that. And if so, what kind of program would you recommend that? Yeah, no, great question. No, the answer is no, you're not allowed to do anything. Can't do what you love. Listen, Emily, you did it for a long time, you competed in, you said a couple things that made this answer very easy for me. It brings you joy, okay? If you find joy in your fitness, that's kind of part of the secret of longevity in terms of consistency with your workouts. Of course, if you don't overdo it and don't hurt yourself. So yes, please do what you love. Now what program would benefit what you're doing? I mean, Maps Performance would probably be Performance for sure with that. Your best type of program, but you're gonna probably have to individualize it a little bit because you have a specific training. Oh, listen, if you love something, a specific style of working out, so long as you don't overdo it or abuse your body, that's the one that you do because you're gonna be doing it more consistently. You have joy while you do it. So definitely, definitely the answer is yes. I'll be even more specific. I think that Maps Performance with all your shop put throwing type of skills training. During the mobility days. Mobility days. So mobility days, I would, so I'd follow to a tee pretty much the foundational days for strength training. And then on my mobility days, I would go out to the field or wherever you train for shop put and I would start off my routine with some mobility exercises from the program and then I would go right into my shop putting. And I think that would be an incredible, and the only thing that I would watch for is because if you're doing all the mobility stuff and the shop putting and the foundation, maybe you feel a little soreness, especially the beginning carrying into your workouts because you haven't maybe done shop put stuff for a while. So then maybe scale back the intensity a little bit on the foundation days, listen to your body if you're kind of overreaching a little bit and scale back. Otherwise, I think that program will compliment your goals. You'll see incredible benefits from it. And I think it's already structured for somebody like you. Yeah, find a lot of those like rotational mobility type of drills to bring into those mobility days. You don't necessarily have to follow specifically, like we put like sort of an outline there for you to kind of pick and choose which ones were most appropriate, but there's gonna be some of those types of drills and movements that are really gonna be beneficial in terms of rotation and proprioceptive type of movement. And I think that that's gonna apply best for what your proceeds are. Yeah, do you have mass performance by the way? I do not, no, I don't. All right, we'll send that over to you, okay? We appreciate you calling. And also shout out your coach there because they're obviously a good coach who turned you on to us. Thank you, yeah, I have those weekly calls with her. She's like, well, listen to what my pump guy's saying. Did you listen to that podcast? That's great. Smart coach, she's our people. Yep. Thank you. Yeah, I swear, unless it's hurting you, unless it's abusing you, unless you're getting developing health problems, if there is a physical pursuit that brings you joy. Yeah, that's my answer. Yeah, I don't care what it is. Again, unless it's hurting you, do that one because that's the one you're gonna wanna do. I think we still get this because of, and this goes back to what we just talked about the other day with the whole cardio thing. I think because we kind of shit on the cardio so much that there's people that enjoy doing things like that. And I think that's important to make clear here too that when we've said this again and I feel like I have to repeat it because we still get this. Well, I blame the space because people assume everybody's dogmatic about whatever we promote and really we're just trying to sift through what's best for the individual. That's right. If her question was, hey, I'm thinking about using shot put to get in the best shape and lose body fat, do you think that's a great strategy? I'd say no, no I don't. I think there's many other strategies that would be better than shot putting for losing body fat. But if you say, I love to shot put and I enjoy that and I wanna build that into my routine. I will structure around that. 100%, just like I would say to somebody who says, I love to go for a run or I love to get in the pool and swim laps. Like, absolutely, let's, is it gonna be the most effective way to burn fat or build muscle? No, but it doesn't matter because the sales point in the pursuit of overall health and longevity, if you're doing something you love to do then you absolutely should build it. I think just people get that confused with their type of training they're doing that they've become addicted to or they fell in love with, i.e. CrossFit, orange theory type of high intensity, like beating the body up. Like, oh, I'd love it. Like, do you really? Because if you really do love it, you'll probably be consistent. Or they're trying to be all about body fat loss on top of like a really specific goal like that at the same time. They're trying to merge all these things together. And there's one factor we're forgetting is consistency. So, could I construct a more, a superior fat loss and fitness routine? I could so long as the consistency is identical, but here's what I know, it's not gonna be identical. That's right. You're gonna be far more consistent doing the thing that you love, which makes it the most effective way for you to work out. And I don't care what that is, again, so long as it's not hurting you and you're not abusing yourself, if your favorite form of exercise, the one that brings you joy is dancing, guess what I'm gonna tell you to do? The most of, dancing. We're gonna dance. You know, I wanted her to give her coach like a true shout out because I love, the scarcity mindset is overwhelming in the fitness space. Like you're just a lot of egos and I love to hear coaches that are willing to do that. I mean, I think we do our best to try and pride ourselves on things that, when there's things that are above our pay grade or somebody we know that's a friend that is a greater expert in that, that we always drive to that. And it annoys me when I hear of coaches that are so afraid to recommend somebody else who's an expert in that field that in fear of, oh, I might lose this client or that won't get the return of the money from it and I love to hear a coach that actually is doing that. So shout out to them.