 First question is from Sarah beak. Is there a difference between having muscle and being strong? Oh big difference Yeah, you know, it's you know what? I mean, they're they're connected, right? There's cross over there. So bigger muscles contract harder So theoretically having bigger muscles will make you stronger. However a huge component of strength is skill And the way your muscles work together. So in other words, if you practice squatting and really get the form and the technique down You can squat more weight without necessarily Building bigger muscles on the other side You can train in a way to where you're really just focusing on the muscle and the contraction and the feel Not squat more weight but get bigger leg muscles You see bodybuilders do this all the time, but they are connected You know power lifters have understood now for a while that although their goal is to lift as much weight as possible If their muscles get bigger that potential is much higher. So it's not like they're avoiding You know hypertrophy for you know, just for strength and of course bodybuilders also They know that adding weight of course to a certain extent but adding weight naturally increases the tension on a muscle and Is a better signal oftentimes for bigger muscles? Yes strengths the specific to the stimulus applied and So that's what like some of the videos that I remember it was kind of fun to watch because I used to think that just a big Jacked guy was had to be like the strongest guy in the gym. And then you'd see just this kind of Hard-working guy that was like a little bit, you know how to gut and was just you know looked like you know Had had big forearms or whatever, but was really understated would just out lift the guy all day long for specific lifts and so you see videos of Bodybuilder versus power lifter versus crossfitter versus and it's like you can see what their strengths are You know relative to what they practice the most great and so that's sort of like how I started looking here's a good example Champion power lifter versus a champion Olympic lifter both Incredible strength athletes who's stronger depends on what we're asking them to do if I'm saying let's do a snatch The Olympic lifter is gonna crush the power lifter if I saying do a deadlift Then or a bench press then the power lifters probably gonna win So there's a huge strength component and there's also How you fire the muscles like here You know and this is a fact you take the average person and you give them caffeine and they will be a few percent stronger What's what happened right in that moment? Did their muscles grow? No, their central nervous system is firing a little harder They're stimulated and they're able to fire more juice to the muscle to lift more weight But their muscles actually weren't any bigger in that particular moment. So but what does this mean for the person watching right now? What should I train for well if your goal is to look good and be healthy for a long period of time both? They both have lots of value contribute to each other to it's it's it means nearly impossible to Build strength and not build some muscle right right and it's nearly impossible to build muscle and not build any strength There's some outliers where you see some extreme examples of it But you're gonna get a little bit of both and extreme examples would be comparing the the you know bodybuilder Who just won mr. Olympia compared to the guy who just won world's strongest man And they probably look nothing like each other You know but both have a lot of muscle mass on them for sure because you're not gonna be The world's strongest guy in the world and not have a bunch of muscle, you know I've always been really impressed with people that don't look like they should be as strong as they are Yeah, it's always really impressive to me. We just talked about this Mike Salemi. Yeah We just talked about this we talked about Mike Salemi and then who was the other example that we gave I forgot We gave two examples of friends of our member, but he's a great example. You just would never guess. Oh, what's his name? Jordan's tie it. There you go. Yes. Yeah, Jordan Jordan saw it is that way, too You just you look at him and you'd never and that's not I don't mean that to be an insult at all Oh, he's fit in everything. Yeah, he's a thick guy, but he doesn't look like you live six pound Yeah, he deadlifts way more than I did left Yeah, I look like I should be able to deadlift more than him So I think that's just impressive when you see somebody like that. It always stands out in the gym I haven't seen it very often, but there's been a couple times where I see a dude load a bar And I think to myself he's gonna hurt himself and then I see them lift it and I'm always like How did that guy bench five plates? He looks like he weighs a hundred and seventy pounds or I've seen a guy deadlift Almost seven plates and I swear to God he weighed like a hundred and sixty pounds or something like that Which was just insane. There's this guy on it was Stan Lee's I think it was like superhumans and so he was able to find sort of like really unique people out there that had like Gifts in certain directions, right? And so there's a guy there that just looked like an average average guy and he was able to I was like deadlifts almost like nine hundred something pounds and like he he actually like had this one feet of strength where he was holding on to a rope and I Think it was like one of those ninja bikes was like, you know full throttle like trying to pull and so they Estimated the amount of force, you know It took to be able to hold the bike in place and it was just insane like a fetus strength Yeah, so so how do you train for strength? Typically, of course lower reps compound lifts longer rest periods really focusing on the technique of the lift really focusing on the skill And of moving the weight in a stable controlled manner How do you focus on building bigger muscles focus on the muscle the contraction the feel the squeeze reps are a little bit higher But again, they both there's so much crossover That you want to do both even if you're in a sport that only focuses on one, right? Even if you're just a bodybuilder, you'll benefit from some strength training And if you're just a strength athlete, you'll benefit from is some of that well I think that's the biggest takeaway from this conversation is you get people that identify with one or the other and then they Don't venture into the other Modality of training, right? So if you're somebody who all you care about is strength You're missing out if you don't train like a bodybuilder sometimes And if you're a bodybuilder and you never train like a strength athlete, you're missing out And I think that's most common what I see and we're all guilty of that, right? Like either I identify as more of this type of a you know, lifter athlete, whatever you want to call it Therefore, I don't do XYZ lift and I don't care about this because I'm not that but the truth is they both Contribute to both sides. 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