 Our next caller is Ryan from Alberta Canada. Hey, what's up, Ryan? How can we help you? Hey guys, how's it going today? Good. All right, so back in late December, I started listening to the podcast, got hooked right away and bought the New Year's bundle. I've run anabolic and currently I'm about three quarters of the way through performance. Obviously, I was going to go into aesthetic next, but realized that this runs into the time of year where I'm going to begin to spend a lot of time away from home. So June through August, I'll be gone about 50% of the time camping with my family and then not September through November. I'll do a lot of time hunting with friends. So June through August, I'll do a lot of hiking with the kids, break resistance bands with me, I'll do trigger work. And when I'm gone hunting September through November, usually hike about 10 to 20 miles a day. I won't do any extra work during that time as you know, we're usually up before sunrise, leave before sunrise and then get back after sunset. So my question is, should I run aesthetic anyways and just make my way through the program a little slower or should I run something else? I had thought about rerunning through the phases of anabolic and performance that align with my goals, which is primarily strength and aesthetics, but I'm curious to hear your opinions. Also in the next little bit here, I'm going to add a few days a week, one to two of trail running and hill climb in order to prep for hunting season. Okay, that's a good question. You're going to be doing a lot of stuff. When you're gone, you'll be very active. Now I would say you can do aesthetic when you're home. And when you're not home, you do some body weight exercises and maps anywhere has got some really good workouts in there. So we can send that to you if you don't have it. But here's another thing I want to add. Don't overdo it. You know, especially when you're doing so much activity, I know we can in our heads, we can think, okay, I need to get in my weights as well. But it's very easy when you're doing that much activity to add resistance training and then it be too much. And then what ends up happening is you not only do you get zero results from it or zero benefit, you actually kind of start to go backwards a little bit. So I would definitely listen to your body if you feel like you've got the strength and energy and it feels good to do some resistance training. If you're not near equipment, maps anywhere has got the best they're the best workouts you'll find anywhere that don't require any equipment except for resistance bands. This is a fun question because I don't think there's a right or a wrong answer here. I do agree with Sal that I caution you not to overdo it. I'll give you another option that you could do is not run aesthetic at all and actually run a map suspension. And with map suspension, you can take that on the go with you. So you can run it while you're at home, which is a fun program. It's different. And all you need is a suspension trainer. You can strap that around a tree when you're on the road or somewhere else and follow that program. And then when you get back from your stent where you're gone hunting and stuff and you're back, then you can resume the bundle and go back to maps aesthetic. So that's also an option. So there's a lot of things that you can do here. And then also keep in mind, you know, I know recently on the podcast, we shared that study that I think Lane Norton posted about about a month ago where it talked about, you know, three weeks on and one week off and they compared those to the two groups of people, right, that train every single day for like three months consistently. And then the other group that took a week off every third week and the results were the same. So, you know, and you're going to be an act, you're being active while you're out. So it's not like you're sedentary and eating garbage food and stuff like that. So I also wouldn't worry about sometimes having a week off of training and just focusing on what you probably love to do, which is hunting and hill climbing and doing those things. So I think it would still benefit you, you know, psychologically it gets in our head sometimes when our goal is to get shredded or look a certain way and you're not training for a whole week, but ultimately in the long term, it'll probably benefit your body sometimes to take it off. Yeah. And I think too, like it's, it's healthy to call audible. So if you know that you've been hitting certain parts of your body quite a bit, like obviously, it's going to look totally different. Your structuring of activity and movement is going to look completely different than what you've been doing. So to sort of just know, to weave in, like I say, you haven't been expressing your upper body like you have been before, like I would, you know, try to incorporate that somehow with body weight training, like Adam saying, like with a suspension trainer or, you know, doing some kind of maps anywhere type programming, but you're going to be able to bounce back once you get to the weights again. So it's not like, you know, this, this dire need to make sure like everything's dialed in, it's okay to step out, but, but still try to, you know, express those, those movements and keep those muscles stimulated. Yeah. I think that kind of thought was, is that is it even worth running aesthetic right away? If I'm going to be doing so many things that almost seem counterintuitive to me or counterintuitive to me, you know, as opposed to say like doing that bodybuilding training, I'm going to be doing a lot more, a little more cardio style stuff. And it's not just going to run against kind of what that programming should look like on aesthetic. Yeah. Good. And you know what, because we brought up two programs, I don't think you own, we'll just send them both to you. So you'll get suspension and wow. Yeah. And, and look, if you, if you hunt successful and you want to send us some elk meat or something, we'd be open to that. Elk jerky. That's the goal of this year, boys, is in the mountains for elk, but it's like 10% success rate up here. So that's, no, that's fantastic. Thank you so much for that. We're pulling for you. Good luck, man. Justin's got a great elk call. I do. Put in spot, dude. All the best. Take it easy, right? That's not how we do it, Justin. We put you out in the forest and have you walk around naked. The elk are like, oh, that's another elk. That's coming back. You know, I, you know, when I hear people say that, I mean, he's going to go hunting like for two months or something like that. And I was savage. Part of me is jealous. Like how cool would that be? That'd be so awesome. Just go out and just be by yourself or with your nature. But yeah, just do something like that sounds so awesome. But yeah, people, I get it too. I get that whole, the feeling of, oh crap, I'm going to stop working out. What am I going to do? But boy, muscle memory is such a big deal. It comes back super fast. And like I said, especially when you're, you're, uh, he's going to go do something that's, you know, physically active. So he's only going to probably lean out, right? He's on the move all day long and stuff like that. So when, and when you're thinking, if your goal is aesthetics and you want to look good, maybe not even working out for a week or two at a time and, but just doing all that activity and making good food choices, he's going to look good. And then the minute he gets right back to the gym, when he gets back, he's going to, his body's going to respond and, or you have your suspension trainer out there with you. And so maybe you have a slower week of activity. And so maybe you, you pull it out, wrap it around the tree, work out for 30 minutes or what like that two or three times a week. And you're going to sustain quite a bit. And you know, I've seen arguments. I've actually seen arguments and they're pretty compelling that you might actually make better gains if you take a month off every year for someone who's super, super consistent. I've seen that argument. There was a, the pro bodybuilder Kevin LeVrone, he used to actually do that. He would take a lot of time off, lose lots of muscle, and then he'd like gain into the pre contest. And of course, he's one of the best bodybuilders. Especially if it makes a lot of sense, especially if you do it with intention, right? Like it's not like you go off and you eat like an asshole for a month and you're not active, but if you're physically active and you're like, okay, this month I'm going to go. Yeah. And I'm still, and I'm still eating like that. Body would probably respond very well to that and would do them well.