 First question is from OgDoku. What are your thoughts on doing only the Big Four with no other accessories? Have any of you guys actually just did that for a long period of time? I did it for I mean maps power lift is the closest thing to that. Yeah, and I did it for relatively short So here's a deal. There's good and then there's optimal. Is this good enough to give you strength and General muscle and you know, yeah, is it optimal? Because with the big four your squat your deadlift your Hedgepress overhead press would be those right? Yeah, and you're not Rotating you're not moving laterally. You're basically in one plane, you know with all those exercises building your foundational base Yeah for strength. Yeah, but you're not get a long ways though with that Especially if we are talking about the the average client or someone who's extremely Deconditioned if you are not consistently training and then all you did was the the four big lifts for a year You would see tremendous result. I think you'd be okay If this is how you work out and you're not a fitness fanatic and you're not thinking about optimal results You're fine. You're gonna be okay doing this. It's better than any other four Well, it's like the carnivore diet for training, right? So I'm just saying that's a bad example Your meat you can live off of that and it you know, it'll sustain you give you the nutrients. No, that's a bad example No, no, it's way better It's way better than that if you were on that the whole time you inevitably gonna hit a wall where like your joints are gonna talk to you Yeah, you know, but look at it more like just like, you know Like if you're not including fiber and your diet, you're not getting the other values from all the other Anyways, it's somewhat of it'd be like only eating four foods. Yeah. Yeah, but maybe not perfect I'm gonna challenge that a little bit. Here's the thing. So, uh, if you're very inconsistent with your training, okay? You let's say in a and I don't even know what the what the studies show around this like with the average person who does quote-unquote Workout consistently what how many days out of a year they actually work out But let's pretend you're the type person that falls in the category of only meeting 50% of that So you have a lot of off and on's you do it really good for three weeks or so Then you fall off for two weeks and you get a streak for a month Then you fall off for a month and then you go, you know, I'm saying sure which is probably The ebb and flow of the average person would you not agree if that person only when they lifted in those days They actually the only thing they did different was they only focused on the four lifts I would make the case that they would get the greatest bang for their buck now you mean in comparison to do a Comparison yes and compare to be doing a bunch of those if you're just as inconsistent now That's not saying that you're not missing out on important things like rotation and lateral movements and things like that That's a given but if those four exercises give you the greatest return on your investment And if you were inconsistent, but when you did work out those were the only things you did you would get the most return from Yeah, I love the simplicity of it And I think that we go away from that all the time and we come back to it for that reason because they're so effective But yeah, so if I'm gonna compare that to somebody that always mixes up with a gajillion different kind of cool Exercises like you're gonna have way more value from these four simple impactful Exercises every day of the week. It's just you know, you got to put a little more thought into like the longevity of that Yeah, all those four exercises require lots of strength lots of stability a decent amount of mobility Here's what I like that for People who do other sports like I was just talking to my my brother-in-law and he was talking about how He's doing jiu-jitsu three days a week and he's been trying to lift three or four days a week And he's like my body always hurts. I don't know. It's I'm like did you're doing way too much I said you just got back into jiu-jitsu just do one day a week of lifting and just do literally those four Exercises now why is that okay for him because in jiu-jitsu he's doing all kinds of dynamic movements He's moving all over the place all he wants to do is add some strength in that particular scenario That's a good option. It's also a good option for I mean, let's be honest The average person forget the fitness fanatic right the average person the most we could hope for in terms of long-term Consistency if we do a bang-up job, we do a really good job is about two days a week of consistent and that's why I say this in that case I think it's perfectly fine. That's because here's there's been times when I've been so inconsistent with my training That I take those four lifts and I divided even over three or four days Yeah, I'm just going and I that's all I do I do five six sets of overhead press for the day And I and I actually can leave the gym and this is different. This is me older and wiser younger me would never do that I wouldn't count that as a workout But I know how in how powerful and impactful those movements and how much benefits that you get from it that I may just do that On day so I might be inconsistent. I'm not doing a full workout. I'm not getting the best bang for my buck As far as all the other movements I should be doing but the bare minimum this week I did all those four movements at least five to eight sets of it and doing that alone will Maintain a decent amount of muscle mass on me a pretty good balance throughout my whole body. Yes Am I am I losing rotational strength? Yes, could I get you know chronic joint pain if I'm always moving in that plane all Time absolutely. I'm not saying it's ideal But when I think of the average person who does not work out consistently and I if I only could pick for movements Yeah, yeah, I tend to I mean I've done this before but mainly with like six to seven exercises I keep it around, you know that is so like you add like dips in there. You dad like, you know weighted pull-ups Rose, you know bent over rose if I added those I tend to feel like I'm a little more I get more of a broad stroke of you know, everything else. I was trying to get yep I agree. Yeah, you but you that concept though of just that concept full of like big major movements And just doing those and maybe you throw like Turkish get up where you hit everything really well You know I'm saying add that to the fifth function in there. Yeah And so no, I I think this is a really good place to start for a lot of people. Is there a lot of things better? Yeah, absolutely like but I just I'm always thinking about the average person who we who we train and the reality of it Is there's a lot of things they didn't do that would be ideal And so if I only got them to do these things, you know, would I be we would be way better way ahead of the game Hey, if you enjoyed that clip you can find the full episode here or you can find other clips over here And be sure to subscribe