 Hello everybody Lance here today. We're gonna talk about torso length and considerations in the push-up so today is a bit of a an exercise in empathy We're trying to figure out what this person feels like at least for me it's an exercise in empathy because I am short and stocky and I as Jonathan Fass told me once we have good lifting levers aka we are short So you train someone who's tall and they just can't get the stiffness that you know is so You're so used to getting It's common There are you know volleyball players for example They all present the same way because they all got these long skinny torsos and it makes them really good at their sport But it makes it hard to do push-ups for example So if you consider the length of the torso if it's six inches longer I have six inches more of torque on my abdomen on my ab muscles that I need to control And so if I push harder, I'm going to amplify that times you know that that six inch difference and You know moment arm is the easiest way to manipulate Torque about a joint so It it really amplifies And even just putting a little bit of weight on somebody with a long torso like that that really gets amplified right compared to You know if I put a 45 pound plate on my back is probably like a volleyball player putting a 10 pound plate on their back It's you know, it's not that big a deal So You need to be able to consider The shape of the person what they've been given like the hand they've been dealt and then What that means for their performance So, you know in the volleyball example, it makes them really good at their sport. They have good reach They are they have good vision like they can see a lot more on the court but Doing push-ups might not be that great Or they might not excel at doing push-ups push-ups might still be a very good idea for them And you should still train them But it's not you know It's not a a test for them. They're never going to test their strength like like i'm not really training for anything So I can test my strength and see how much weight I can put on my body for a push-up for You know, maybe one or three push-ups and see what I can do Right because that's just my little way of keeping myself motivated while I train But for them, they're never going to do that because they're never good at push-ups and they're when they when they get better at it They're not they're very small increments, right of of improvement But being able to stabilize that long trunk While moving and loading their upper body is tremendously valuable for them. Okay And you know if you flip-flop it instead of thinking like this person is weak at this What if you have a short person maybe give them push-ups Maybe give them squats and deadlifts because they're going to be really good at that stuff um You know, maybe more squat less deadlift if you got that short torso, but I don't know. I don't know That's kind of the point though consider individual differences and treat people differently