 Next question is from Emily Powell, 79. I'm stuck at a 225 pound conventional deadlift and want to get to 240. What do I need to do to progress? All right, so this is, it's hard to answer questions like this because it depends on who I'm talking to. Sort of the back history too. Yeah, like I don't know what your workout routine looks like or your technique or where the weak links are. So this is gonna be kind of general advice. With some exercises, there are other exercises that have such a huge carryover that sometimes when you're stuck at one exercise, you've plateaued, what you should do is focus on these other exercises that contribute and then you'll see this carryover. So a good example would be overhead press to a bench press. Oftentimes people get stuck on the bench press and they do all these different things, they plateau and then I would tell them, all right, let's get you stronger in your overhead press. They start practicing and getting better at the overhead press, boom, their bench press goes up. Squatting really makes the deadlift go up for a lot of people. It does for me. If my squat goes up, my deadlift almost always goes up. It's not always true the other way around. If my deadlift goes up, my squat doesn't necessarily go up. I feel like hip thrust would contribute a lot to that too. Hip thrust is the other one, I was just gonna say that. So squats and hip thrust, so if you've been deadlifting for a long time and you've gotten good at it and Emily sounds like a female name, 225 is a pretty damn good deadlift for a woman. So it's pretty good, sounds like you've been working at it for a while. Maybe just kind of maintain your deadlift and then try to place your focus on squatting and hip thrusting and then see if you end up getting that carryover. Yeah, I've also found value in using a trap bar deadlift as opposed to that for a nice contrast to shift my efforts on that because it's a bit different recruiting pattern for that and also, but yeah, I mean, kind of transitioning to another exercise that has just as much value that might strengthen certain parts of the lift you might be weakened. So something that helped me before, I mean, up until I was 30 years old, I had never done this. So obviously the novelty played in a role. So if you do this already, maybe this isn't a good advice, but if you've never done this, this helped me a lot, which was I never trained singles doubles or triples until you guys ever in my life. Never in my life did I go pick a, I wasn't a big max out guy. I used to like joke about that all the time. You know that I used to say it doesn't matter how much I can lift. You know, if I look this way, like talk care about. So I never, I never did anything under five reps. And even when I did five reps, it was rare. It was just to interrupt my other training and then go back to like kind of hypertrophy training. So, and I found in a lot of females I've trained, not a lot of females tend to lift really heavy. A lot of girls are good about not giving a shit about their PR in the gym and not chasing that. And they, a lot of them don't do, this was Katrina does do singles doubles or triples. So one of the ways I got her dead lift up and my dead lift up was training that just training in that lower rep range. Yeah, five sets of two reps. Because there is a big difference for, at least for me, lifting the weight five times versus when I'm gonna, when I'm learning, because there's a lot with a dead lift on how you get yourself positioned, how well you're primed and how you can generate all that force for one or two or three reps versus lifting it five or eight or 10 times. Like it's a different strategy and strength that you need for those rep ranges. So if you're somebody who's really looking to, I've never PR'd over 225 and I wanna see 240, but you've also never trained in your routine a day where you are doing singles. And when you do that, by the way, you're not trying to max out every time you do it. But what you're really working on is that explosiveness for one rep and getting better at that. And you will improve, you'll get better if you've never trained that one. You stretch in that capacity for more force production. That's right. That provides, which is great. Another thing that if I'm getting stuck, especially a sticking point for me, it's from the bottom of the lift where it's the pole. I like to do deficit dead lifts and kind of focus on that for a bit just to really emphasize and put more resistance there for me to overcome. So I can, again, but this is really just addressing, summoning more force. And so it sort of focuses that attention in that part of the lift, which if you kind of segment out parts of the lifts where you feel like the weak link is for you, if you can identify that, that might be a good strategy. Yeah, you can also try resistance bands on the bar. Like let's say your workout normally is, I don't know, 200 pounds, maybe go down to 150, get some pretty sturdy resistance bands attached from the end of the bar and anchor them with something. And now you've got this variable resistance where it gets heavier at the top. That often will get someone out of a plateau. You'll see a five or 10 pound gain just from doing that. But I think ultimately what we're all saying is a change in your programming and somehow change your focus or reps or the way that the resistance is being applied. Change it. And this may mean that for two months you do something completely different and go back to it. But if you do what you've been doing, obviously, it's probably not gonna go anywhere. 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.