 Our next question is from Brianna from Florida. Hey Brianna, how can we help you? Hey guys, just wanted to real quick say you guys are awesome. I listen to you guys every morning So thank you for putting out a bunch of content. Awesome. Thank you. Thank you. So my question is I Mean there's a backstory to it But basically my question is is it better to lay off heavier weights while focusing on Mobility and technique or keep driving home technique while doing my heavy lifts And just continue to prime beforehand because I'm basically power lifting right now. Yeah, good question No, that's a good question If you want to improve and you want to improve Smoothly and seamlessly then you're gonna back off on the weight. Here's why The second you push intensity, which is what heavy weight does your body will always Revert to its its recruitment pattern that it's you know been doing for a long time So let's say for example, I'm training a client that for whatever reason my makeup a scenario They they wear high heels all the time so they walk in high heels all the time And so they've developed the recruitment pattern where the body gets really good at walking in high heels And then I put them in flat shoes, but I tell them to run as fast as they can We'll end up happening is our body will revert to the high heel recruitment pattern because that's the one that it knows the Most so what happens when you go heavy is you're gonna continue to solidify poor recruitment patterns And it's gonna be hard or if not impossible to change those recruitment patterns Even if you add a lot of mobility work So ideally what you would do is you go back off on the weight back off on the intensity Focus on mobility focus on skill and technique Don't push the intensity because it automatically throws your technique back to what you're used to doing Do that for a while until the problems are solved until the new recruitment pattern is solidified Then go back to lifting heavy. I I a hundred I a hundred percent agree. Who's that? Who's that? They got a question Did you snap at your mom? Yeah, I I a hundred percent agree with Sal I I do believe though you can still go heavy You just got it you you you got a train with like this mindset So let's say, you know what happens a lot of times someone's following a program if they're falling like a maps program they see on the program that this set I'm supposed to do six to eight reps and You load the bar up with a weight that you think you do that now what ends up happening. Let's say at rep for It's getting kind of heavy and hard But you definitely can get six to eight and you push through and you get your 68 But on reps five and six you kind of shimmy a little bit or the form isn't perfect and breaks down If you're focused on the mobility aspect and correcting imbalances and that's where our focus is I'm stopping the set at four So, you know, even though even though I can get five so it still allows you to go kind of heavy and challenge Your intensity is low But I'm not worried about the rep range that my programming is or what I I care so much about form That the minute I feel that it's going to break down. I'm stopping the rep right there Well, I'm gonna add to that in terms of like going less reps But also like stopping right before, you know, you see that sort of discrepancy How do you you lean into that and you make it an isometric exercise? And so now I'm like I'm slowly like really addressing it and honing it on and trying to actively recruit more muscle fibers to provide support and so But again, you'll be able to find that You know with with less weight and your body's gonna be able to be trained a lot more efficiently that way to To be able to kind of get past that one discrepancy Whatever you train you get stronger at so you strengthen what you train and if you train a Poor recruitment pattern then that's what's gonna become strong for you So in order to change that you got to back off and work with a different and train a new recruitment pattern And that takes a little bit of time, but here's the good news Once you do it you'll surpass what you did before if you don't do it It's gonna be very hard if not impossible to get out of the the place that you're in now I also I I'm reading your question now, too I see it up on the screen right now and you say your your hip dips a little bit when you come out of the squat Yeah, so um, I usually feel it like I like I said in my question There's it's I can only feel it when I go very very heavy and it's not until after I start feeling like my just the left side of that Erector spin a and can feel it like if I go in for another set It feels like I pushed something too hard or that there is like a discrepancy there So I dialed back for the past like two to three months And they my squats feel a lot better, but I guess my question was should I continue to? Maintain strength by you know pushing the heavy weight but not going past that like that point of where everything starts breaking down Yeah, no, I would I would definitely not go past or hit your max at all You don't you don't want to be dealing with if you're constantly Feeling that shift while you're also trying to correct it You're just you're you're gonna you're gonna be stuck in a loop the whole time. Do you have maps prime pro? Yeah, that's where i'm going with this. Um, I don't okay We're gonna send that to you because that's the program that you should focus on and I would do mobility movements for hips ankles and feet Several times a day spend about five to ten minutes several times every single day working on those movements And then when you work out drop the intensity and it's all about uh technique and have you ever have you ever filmed your feet when you squat? like I I actually filmed myself Quite a lot and I just filmed my squat. Um the other day. I have a slight um Uh, what is it a pro nation when I um totally i'm up. Yeah, it's like so slight But that's that's what's causing that just so you know, that's what's causing the the hip shift too Yeah, and that's what's that what's what's happening is that this the side that's that's that's pronating opening up You're you're shifting on the opposite high opposite side So and that's and then that's also why you're feeling it on on one side of your your erectors Yeah, I and right and because you're strong and you're lifting heavy weight I see here that you're aiming for a thousand pound total. Wow. Um, yeah, that's the goal Which is tremendous, right? The slightest discrepancy between right and left it doesn't make that big of a difference when you're lifting 100 pounds You start lifting 200 300 pounds Now it makes a big difference. So and I mean honestly, I could literally put a if I put a quarter of an inch Rise in and somebody who's strong in one of their shoes They will develop some serious problems within a very short period of time You give that to somebody's not lifting very heavy. They might not notice for a long time So because you're pushing your body because you're really strong This is very important Yeah, that makes sense. All right. Well, thanks for calling in. All right. Thank you guys. No problem That's pretty damn strong. Yeah, that's really strong. It's uh, it's pretty impressive But yeah, you know, I this is an example I've used before I'll say it again just for the audience if they've never heard this but Let's say you you've always only ever typed with your two index fingers, you know the hunt and peck You know method of typing and you've done that for years You're pretty fast with your two index fingers If I go and then try to get you to type properly using all of your fingers You're going to be slower at the better method at first So if somebody came to you and said type as fast as you can You would have to revert to your old method because that's your recruitment pattern That's what you're best at the new method There's a learning curve before it surpasses The old method. So it's the same thing with recruitment patterns with exercise a whole lot of reps too So you have to be very patient with this new approach And so that's just something you're you're gonna have to reconcile with that. It's going to take a while Now the positive though is that you you're also going to see benefits though Besides just that like the speed of it You're also going to see your body still changing because you're still progressing Everybody thinks progressing always has to be me putting more weight on the bar If you're working on mobility getting a greater greater range of motion You have better stability and control the body will show results So you could typically still lean out or add muscle and look better and feel better And show progression there even though you may see a dramatic reduction in your squat A better squat with lighter weight is going to give you better results than a heavier muscle. That's not as good So that's just the the bottom line