 Question is from RC Junior, 1209. When getting back into shape, where or when do mobility workouts come into play? We are not working with a personal trainer. Mobility workouts come into play day one and forever. There's never not a place for mobility workouts. Now- It's actually probably a great place to start. Oh, it's for a lot of people. Of course. I mean, you mean the focus? Like most of the focus- Yeah, like when this person's actually- Before you lift weights. Right, right, yeah. Right, when you're getting back into shape, in fact, this is an excellent place to start. I tell you what, if I, I haven't been in this place in a very long time where I'd fallen completely out of shape and I hadn't been exercising and working out, but I've learned so much more about mobility today in the last, or in the last probably five years than I had in the previous decade of training. And what I know now, if I were to have started all over again or came from being way out of shape and then getting back on the gym, I probably would have spent the first month doing mostly all mobility work and very little strength training. It would be all, because you're gonna get some carryover from that. If you haven't been training at all, you're pretty weak and actually just holding your body weight up and doing mobility type of movements, you're gonna build a little bit of strength. And more importantly, you're gonna get those joints moving more optimally before you go into starting to do strength training and lifting heavy. So, yeah, where does it play? Fuck, it plays a huge role and should be a major priority for everybody, but it's most certainly for somebody who's deconditioned. And in the two, I mean, there's two main reasons why it should always play a role. One, the obvious, it's going to prevent injury. Working on mobility is one of the best insurance policies you have against chronic pain or even acute injury from workouts. Now, the second reason is less obvious. The second reason is this, with improved mobility, and remember this, mobility means longer or ranges of motion that you have control over. So it's not just the fact that you have greater ranges of motion, like, oh, now I can touch my toes whereas I couldn't before. It's also, do I have strength and control in that range of motion? That's mobility, it's this complete ownership of how you move. And that reduces injury, like I said earlier, but it also does something else, this is not so obvious, gives you better results. Because I can work through greater ranges of motion and because I own those greater ranges of motion, I'm going to activate more muscle fibers when I'm exercising. I'm going to make all the exercises that I do far more effective and all of that's going to give me better results. And we know this through studies. If you take groups of people and you have some of them perform half squats and then you have the other group perform full squats, both under good control with good mobility, the people doing the full squats are going to get better results. They're just going to get better results all the way around, generally speaking. So mobility work, because some people think, I don't want to waste my time doing mobility, I'm only interested in building muscle, I'm only interested in looking good, and I don't hurt, so there's no need for me to do mobility work. Well, the truth is, if you want to maximize your results, then you should be working on improving mobility because it's going to give you better results. Yeah, it's so interesting to me because again, we always kind of come back to like a car analogy, but in terms of like having just like parts of the car not working at its best, right? Say like even the tires, for instance, are like low in pressure. And now I want to like keep increasing, you know, the engine's torque and like I get more horsepower and I get more, like what is that going to do in terms of like propelling the car forward? It's not going to do a whole lot, okay? So you look at your joints, if they're not working properly, if you don't have the ability to stabilize properly, your body is not going to allow for, you know, more force production. It's not going to allow for you to then build, you know, more strength. And if you do, it's going to come to a headway where, you know, at that point, it's going to become a problem where you're applying too much force, but you can't handle it. And so then it's going to break. You know what the irony is too about mobility work? This is the funny irony. I mean, this is something that I learned as a trainer, you know, probably five years in, I know you guys feel the same way and any trainer who's listening, who's been working with a lot of people, has learned this, that the most value that you'll ever provide a client, ever, that will give you the most clients, will give you the most value where you could charge the most money, that people actually, in reality, value more than anything else, is your ability to keep them pain-free. No joke. Like getting people to lose weight, getting people to build muscle and get stronger, that also has lots of value. But nothing is more valuable than when I get, you know, Mr. Johnson, who's 43 years old, and I got him to move better, and now when he back doesn't hurt and his hips move well, he feels like he's younger and he's moving good. That's the thing that keeps him coming. That's the thing that gives him most value. And the irony of that is we sell fitness so much based off of fat loss and muscle building. If we just communicated this mobility point well, I bet you we'd get more everyday people working out and doing resistance. I really do. I think if people really understood what resistance training could do when it applied to mobility and they experienced it, they'd be more likely to stick to their workouts, more likely to be consistent. Because the weight loss and muscle building thing, you know, a short term that's great, but long term at some point, you're like, I don't wanna keep trying to lose weight. I don't wanna keep trying to build muscle for the rest of my life. But geez, I feel great. I feel really good. I move good. Like I think if we sold it right, the irony is that the mobility aspect is probably what we'll get the average person to pick up some weights and work out with weights consistently.