 Next question is from 12 weeks out. When should you train through pain versus taking time off? It seems like doctors want to sideline you if you have any pain at all. You know, the more you work out, the more you start to kind of learn your body, the easier it is for you to decipher good pain from bad pain. Why is it important to know the difference between good pain and bad pain? Because then I can move within my limits. I know what my edges are, right? So if my knee is sore or my hip is sore, it's slightly injured. I can work on mobility and I can go to the edge and know that if I go beyond this particular range of motion, I'm going to injure myself further. But I can move up to that edge and work on strengthening it, bringing blood to the area, which oftentimes will accelerate recovery. So this is when it becomes very important to understand the difference. Now, for someone listening who's like, oh gosh, that sounds so hard to decipher, you know, start with this. Sore muscles, typically moving them with low intensity is a great thing. Joints oftentimes need rest. Not always can you move through joint pain and make them feel better. Oftentimes, if a joint hurts, if it's in the joint, oftentimes rest is something that that particular, you know, situation is. Well, I always think that, so pain worries me, right? Someone says I'm in pain or something, I have pain somewhere versus I'm sore. Soren pain are different. Like somebody can be very sore. They both hurt. I know, but a lot of people interpret soreness as pain, which is muscle soreness, which is not as big of a deal. And training through it a lot of times is actually a great thing for you to do. But if a client complains to me that they have pain and like the pain is not going away, like soreness should progressively get better over time, right? So as days go by, you're a little less sore, a little less sore just because you're resting and recovering. A lot of times if you've injured something, like and you have serious pain somewhere, two days, three days, five days doesn't make a difference. And that's where I'm like telling a client, okay, you should probably go see a doctor. We might need an MRI. We might need an X-ray because you may have tore something. You may have broke something. You may have fractured something. And that is to me pain. But being sore and it being, you know, painful because you're sore, that's a different story because you might have just overtrained a little bit. And then there's tremendous value in you doing mobility work and working through it and getting some circulation, getting rehydrated, things like that. But you have to be able to decipher the two. This is kind of a rule of thumb. Does light movement make the pain feel better? Or worse. Yeah, or worse, right? Usually if it makes it feel better than movements what you want to do, if you do light movement and then it feels worse, then you probably should set it aside and let it rest. I still think it's better, you know, to at least go through that and find where those edges are. You know, just so you know, because at the end of the day you're still going to have to function and walk and move and do things and lift, you know, bags of groceries and, you know, you're going to have to go on with the rest of how you would normally do things. And so to start that process in a very gradual way I think has value in itself, but it is scary to when you're getting these parameters and the doctor's telling you, like, no, I don't want you to move at all. But there's definitely degrees of, you know, what your body's going to tell you like in terms of a signal of pain. Like this is where, you know, that ranges for you. Well, that's a good point because even a physical therapist after you've tore something or broke something, they take you through that. I mean, that's part of the process of rehab is they put you to those in limits. I mean, a lot of times rehab is painful and is tough because they're pushing those in ranges and stretching your capacity. So that just a little, if you have a major injury and you're in major pain, doing that by yourself without the expertise or guidance. Yeah, that to me that's something that's like. By the way, this is one of the main values of exercising regularly is it puts you in your body. I used to, used to blow me away when I was a new trainer and I would train a client that really never exercised on a regular basis. Just how outside of their body they were, like they would do an extra, I used to get this all the time. They're doing an exercise that's targeting a specific area and they'd be like, where am I supposed to feel this? You know, what do you mean? Where are you supposed to feel this? Yeah. You know, and they're fatiguing too and they just feel it everywhere or their sore and they'd be like, I think I hurt myself. Well, no, that's actually what muscle soreness feels like, or they couldn't tolerate the fatigue or pain from regular appropriate exercise. So when you exercise on a regular basis, you actually learn to be in your body. You learn to decipher. You get in tune with it. Exactly. Because if you never do that stuff, you're literally detached from your body. I've seen this time and time again with new clients and it was always strange to me. But then you see them improve their connection as they continue to be consistent.