 First question is from Tabish K. How do you know when you've reached your genetic potential and what is the age that most people reach it? Oh, have you read anything on that the golden question? Yeah, like the age that most people would reach it or a years of training Consistently that you would reach it. Yeah, I mean if you look at like taught it depends on the sport and it depends on obviously what you're looking for If you're looking at like body muscular development, you're probably for men somewhere in their mid Early to mid 30s Long training so probably early 30s some sports people reach their peak in their 20s Like you know if you're looking at a combat sport You don't see too many high-level combat artists that are you know or athletes that are you know over the age of 34 It starts to kind of decline, but you know what's funny about this question is your genetic potential Changes based off of your circumstances in the context of your life, right? So what is your genetic potential when you're lacking sleep? What is your genetic potential when your programming's off? What is your genetic potential when absolutely everything's perfect and that's what people want to think of they think of? Genetic potential as being what's the absolute furthest that could take my body when everything is perfect now? We've been working out for a long time Let me ask you guys a question when in your life has every absolutely every aspect of your life been perfect Yeah for developing your physique. Yeah, that's why this question is kind of one of those Yeah, well, I mean the closest I ever was there was that that three-year run of competing If I where I could say like I was really checking most all the boxes But even then you could definitely go in there and pick apart things that I could have optimized or done better To continue so yeah, I don't think it's funny because I know a lot of people probably have Reached close to their genetic potential because you've been training for 10 15 years consistently without really having too much off And so you've probably reached kind of the peak of how much total lean body mass Maybe if we're just talking purely muscle, but as far as optimizing your overall health performance Longevity, you know muscle body fat percentage. I mean there's always so much room to continue to improve everywhere Yeah, it's a hard thing to kind of pinpoint because for me It was always like what I was doing was then transferring out to sports performance And so like and I was only playing sports up till college and then that was it You know and so I didn't really have a good gauge of like when that sort of declined although my last year I did feel a bit of a Bit of a decline, but that was mainly due to circumstances and me and my consistency Kind of leading up into the season with that but like in terms of like the weight room I've had I've it's been all over the place like I felt like the last, you know Five years have been some of my best years of lifting now when we get a question like this What do you guys think spurs this like what do you think? Why do you think this person is out? I mean, we're totally spec. I know me when I used to really wonder this is I wanted to know what I could accomplish Like what's my limit? How far can I take my oh see now? I think I remember thinking this and I think that when you've hit a really hard plateau People start asking because they're wondering like oh this maybe this is it for me You know, I've already added so much muscle. I've been training for five plus years or whatever You know, I'm curious to know am I maybe I'm reaching my genetic potential right now. This is a trap I mean, I mean speak personally speaking my my PRs and my lifts happened in my early to mid 30s I would say it's when I hit like some of my heaviest lifts But let me tell you why this is a trap if you're always Training for the end result You're gonna be disappointed at some point because at some point you get older at some point you can't Possibly get stronger. Otherwise we'd have seven-year-olds, you know dead lifting 5,000 pounds or whatever at some point Things are gonna decline. How do you stay consistent? Yeah, the way you get you stay consistent is you enjoy the process You have to enjoy the the workout for the workout itself otherwise you're screwed because You're gonna get stuck in a situation where you're like, oh my god My body now is going backwards because I'm thinking of it like this It's like a a professional athlete asking, you know, where when I'm what am I gonna max out at getting better? Yeah, I guess some point if you're a pro, okay, you're probably at Towards the top, but you don't ever stop practicing and trying to get better and improving every aspect And there's different metrics there though, too Like say it's not the physicality, but like your game smart Yes, I put you ahead of everybody else because of the time that in the reps you put in and so I just think that it's it's all based off of what you're sort of determining this because for me it would be like if I read this question and I would probably like my 20s because like I didn't think about anything, you know And then all of a sudden, you know, I was at my peak and then, you know Everything I did built muscle and then it just sort of like taper. I had to then really pay attention to what I was doing And if you look at studies, I mean actually I read this the other day. It's interesting I read an it was an article. Oh, maybe I saved it. But anyway, it talked about The peak age for different Abilities like the best age for learning new languages. I think was seven or something like that, right? The peak age for earning potential for men 48 so 48 generally The peak age for years now that makes sense Even if we do better you're tapped I think the peak age for like winning a Nobel Peace Prize was like 60 something or whatever Anyway, it's it's all very interesting, but there's a lot of factors that go into it. You you said something very interesting, right? Who's that the quarterback that's like in his 40s Tom Brady? Yeah, and he was just crushing right and how old was he? Still is still is crushing. Yeah, he's in his 40s, right now. Is it because physically he's Probably is he more is he faster than he was when he was no definitely. He's more efficient and he's smarter Right. No, it's a great analogy because I definitely know that I've probably seen like the most muscle And I may never even ever get to that point again in my life But even today the things that what I improve on is I less effort and I can achieve Similar or better things than I was able to achieve when I was 20 something So even if I like can say that I've seen the most muscle mass or reached the genetic potential of how much muscle My body can carry. I've gotten smarter and wiser about how I get there and it's taken less effort to maintain a physique that I was Hammering myself for in the my 20s trying to reach so there's other parts that you continue to get better at even Even if you've reached your maximum, you know how to quickly adjust on the fly Yeah, you know to stay ahead of these plateaus or you know aches and pains like there's just there's a lot more Playbooks that you've acquired You know to navigate through all that stuff. Yeah. Well, here's a good example The a man's generally speaking a man's testosterone right the anabolic hormone testosterone peaks at about 18 It's rare to find an 18 year old that will build more muscle than a 29 year old, right? If they both same training Experience and a lot of stuff 29 year old typically will build more muscle in 18 year old So there's a lot more that goes into this than just Hormone levels and physical whatever there's there's your wisdom and your application, but again Yeah, this is a trap because at some point father time is gonna slap you in the face And if you're constant if you're so focused and obsessed with the end result You will be in a whole world of pain. You will eventually find yourself stopping because you're gonna feel like what's the use? I can't get any faster. I can't get any buffer I can't look any better no matter what I do my body ages You have to at some point just love the process for the process itself. 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