 Our next caller is Parker from Oklahoma. Hey Parker, how can we help you? Hey, what's going on? Not much man, how you doing? I'm good. So I've been strength training for about three years now and I built up a pretty good strength base but I've been working on losing some weight lately and this strength base has brought up some mobility issues that I'm working on Prime Pro and I'm running strong to preserve that strength while I'm losing weight and I'm wondering if I can run strong and Prime Pro at the same time and reap both benefits. Oh yeah, Prime Pro is designed to be run with any program or no program. It's a correctional exercise-based program. So the mobility movements and the connection movements and the correctional exercise movements in Prime Pro you do those throughout the day and you can use them as priming movements as well but do them throughout the day and then follow map strong and adjust the volume and intensity of the correctional exercises if you feel like you're overdoing it but it's designed to be done with anything or nothing. It's not a workout program per se. It's more of a correctional program. I guess it depends though on how much, like it depends on how much effort you wanna put towards mobility, right? Cause I would even consider, if mobility is a really big focus for you, which it was for me not that long ago, I would probably cut back or eliminate the work sessions on strong and replace that with like an all mobility day. Cause the strong- That's what I've been doing. Okay, yeah, I love that because the foundational days in strong themselves is great programming. You're gonna get great results from that. You're gonna retain plenty of muscle and still probably get stronger running that program like that. And then instead of the work sessions I would actually go and I would agree with Sal too though I would still be trying to do, like I would have those two or three days a week that are pure, you know, 40 minutes to an hour of all mobility type work. And then I would probably pick one or two mobility drills that are making the greatest impact on my- As your primers. Right, as your primer and you're doing that every day. So like we will use me as an example, like I was working on all my mobility but my, you know, combat stretch and my 90, 90 where those were my like go-to moves that I was doing like every day, multiple times a day and always before I did any workout. And then I tried to have a couple of days in the week where it was like just a full dedication towards mobility with whatever program was going on. Yeah, the beauty of prime pros it helps to kind of really isolate and see like the grossest offender. So you could, you could see is it the ankles that really need the most work? Is it the shoulders? You know, where in my body, you know, can I really hyper focus and see the most return from? And when you get through that like to both their points is like this is where now you wanna figure out to add that ritual almost every day. And so maybe it's less because you're putting more demand on your body in these foundational workouts. But then, you know, in the following day you look at it more as a recovery and so you're gonna do a bit more in terms of like movement and also like adding more stability around the joints. Okay, yeah, that makes sense. That's what I've been doing and I felt good if I feel more mobile me and my mom have both been running prime pro and we both feel way better just after one week. Oh yeah. All right, man. Well, thanks for calling. Yep, thank you guys. Yeah, I think the key to remember with any goal is if you're focused on more than one goal in your training, you're gonna get each of them slower. You know, so if I'm trying to get strong and mobile I'll get some strength and I'll get some mobility. If I wanna get a lot of mobility then I gotta focus just on that. A lot of strength just focus on that. You can do it, but yeah, you're right. It's specificity always applies. And so if like your focus is really like on accomplishing two and those are two, I mean, they're not the same goal. So you're gonna get into that conundrum where it is gonna kind of draw out your success. Although they both can be pursued at the same time they are a bit conflicting. And a lot of that is the psychological piece is that, and I remember battling with this, you know also wanting to still be buff and strong but then knowing like, okay, I really need to address mobility. And I actually, I had to let go of that. I had to kind of let go of like the inevitable. I'm probably gonna lose a little bit of muscle. I need to stop worrying about being so strong or being so buff if I really, really wanna get mobile. And so that became more of the foundation, right? So even though I told him to change the work sessions I actually, the way I was going into weeks is like my most important days were those three mobility days. And then all I'm gonna add some strength training in there too, so I don't completely like atrophy and disappear. But even with the strength training it's mobility focus. It's lighter way. Range of motion, yeah. I'm challenging range of motion and stuff like that. I'm not trying to push the most weight I possibly. I know you said conflicting and I do wanna to make sure that I clarify. Like better mobility done properly will eventually make you stronger, faster and give you better strength gains as well. So we don't mean conflicting in the sense that if you build one then you lose the other one forever. They're complementary. They're very complementary. I think a better way for me to say it is they're conflicting psychologically, right? Cause when you go into- The intent is different. That's right. When you go into a quote unquote strength-based program your goal is to get stronger and add more weight. And you're lifting differently. And you're lifting differently. It is, you are lifting to lift the most weight which doesn't always mean the fullest range of motion or the best form and technique. That's right. And so it's the psychological piece that is conflicting. It's like not, exactly. It's not, and I know I would get some shit for that. Right? Oh, that's not true at all. If you get a greater range of motion you can build more muscle. Yes, we would agree with that. But what happens is if you are really trying to get strong and you're really trying to get mobile you end up, you hit this crossroad at one point where it's like, oh, I'm doing bench today and I feel really good and strong and you want to hit to your max- I'm supposed to do 90% of, you know, in low reps or whatever it was like but I got to work on my mobility. That's right. That's right.