 Next question is from Jay Nick Dave. Should someone who's a beginner focus on bulking or cutting first? How do you know which to do first? You know, this is a general question, so of course it depends on the individual. But generally speaking, I think I typically have a client focus on bulking first. Now, I don't, I say that loosely. I'm not telling, I'm not having them bump their calories like crazy or whatever. I'm typically just trying to get them stronger before I ever try to cut any kind of calories. Because I want to work with a healthier metabolism or maybe, maybe that's the wrong word. I want to work with a faster metabolism. It's easier to get lean when your body's burning more calories naturally. And I want them to be good to performance wise in the gym while I'm working with them. I think to establish some of these like compound lifts, I don't necessarily want to run them through a cut where they may fatigue more so than they would if they were fed. I've talked about this before in old podcasts, but I'll bring it up again for listeners who might not have heard this. But there's a bit of a misconception when it comes to the best workouts for fat loss. A lot of us think, I'm going to do the exercises and the workouts that just burn tons of calories. But that's completely negating the fact that the workout itself sends a signal to the body. And the signal that it sends to the body tells the body to get better at whatever you're doing. And so what happens when you're focusing on just losing weight, and let's say you're doing lots of cardio, lots of these HIIT style workouts and circuit type training, is your body starts to become efficient with calories. You actually start to slow your metabolism down. And for people who are like, oh, that doesn't really happen, I've read a study. You look at modern hunter-gatherers. There's this really amazing study done on modern hunter-gatherers, the Hadza tribe, or Hudson, I believe, is a spelled tribe, where they scientists went in and measured their calorie burn, and they predicted that these people would be burning 5,000 calories a day because they're hunting and walking and moving all day long. They thought, oh, these people are going to burn way more calories than the average person. It turns out they weren't burning that many more calories than the average person. And you think to yourself, how's that possible? They're moving like crazy. Because it doesn't make sense. Why would the human body evolve to burn shit tons of calories all the time when food has always been so scarce? Now there is one form of exercise that will tell the body to burn more calories. And that is resistance training, strength. Because strength, when your body prioritizes strength, the second priority is to become efficient with calories. It actually bumps it down the list a little bit and says, we need to get stronger. In order to get stronger, you have to build muscle. That burns more calories. So more often than not, if I had a client that wanted to lose a lot of weight, I would start them off and be like, well, we're going to focus on strength for a little while before we even try to lose any weight. It took me a while to figure that out, but once I started doing that, I had much better long-term success. I like this question because not only do I agree with you, but I would always start someone to book them. The only exception to the rule would be a competitor or somebody who has already been tracking their food and they came to me and said, Adam, I'm at 5,000 calories a day already. They have all their macros tracked out for me. They're already eating a ton of calories and they're like, will you help me get shredded? And that's like 1 in 1,000 people come to me ever like that. Most people are coming to me with no clue where to start. And or somebody who is really overweight. And that's what's really changed for me as a trainer. And it took me probably a decade to figure this piece out because I think the common knowledge says, okay, somebody who is 300 pounds, they come in higher personal trainer to lose 100 pounds. You're going to put them on a cut. No, not at all because most of those people have extremely slow metabolism because they're deconditioned. They're not moving around. They have a lot of body fat. They don't have a lot of muscle mass on their body and have probably real poor eating habits where they binge like crazy and then they restrict. And so when I first get ahold of anybody, no matter how overweight they are, the first few months minimum is focused on us actually starting to slowly increase calories. Now, I changed them, right? People come and their macro profiles way off. They're way over consuming sugar and carbs and sometimes fat not getting enough protein or not getting enough healthy fats, not getting enough fiber. And we've talked about this on the show many times. I don't like to take away from somebody. Somebody who also has a hard time controlling their diet, going straight into a diet that you restrict from them is always a really bad place to start. They have a lot they need to work on as far as their relationship with food. And I've found that I've had a lot more success with assessing a diet. And instead of telling them, oh, you can't have these things saying, hey, I want to add this into your diet. And so I'll add things to the diet while also strength training to what Justin and Salis point was, which is so I would build more muscle, which would then speed their metabolism up. So always I'm starting somebody on a bulk before we go to a cut. Plus it's nice to show somebody to value or to teach someone to value performance first anyway. So it's like they came in there, they want to lose 30 pounds. But now you're getting them stronger and then they start to feel stronger. They start to see the weights go up in the gym. They start to feel better in their body. And then they start to value exercise for that. That's a nice relationship to start with. Like you're valuing the performance and you're starting off on the right foot. And then a few months later, like you're saying, Adam, then switching them to now we're going to start. Then comes the reveal. Yeah, now we're going to start to reduce calories and see what happens. It's just a much better long-term approach. Thanks for watching.