 All right, our next caller is Jason from Florida. Hey, what's up, Jason? What's your question? Hey, guys. Jason down at Jacksonville Beach. Just wrote in to ask a question about how I should train in my home gym to get kind of my swing back. I've been playing some softball with some guys my age lately, and I'm not hitting the ball as hard as I used to, and would like to improve my game a little bit. And then I've also been taking up stand-up paddle boarding. And I'm interested in how I can train at home to kind of work on my balance while still being able to paddle powerfully while maintaining my balance on the board. Let me explain what that is for Sal. Sal, that's the stick, and it's a bigger ball that they use. Oh, OK. And then the paddle boarding is like a surf board, and they row on top of standing up. All right, thank you. Where do you notice the breakdown in those things? And have you done them before? Are you new to them, or is this something you did before? I played baseball as a kid, and softball as an adult that took a long break when I started having kids. So I used to play softball, and I just used to be able to hit a lot better than I am. I don't know if my swing's off, or I'm just not as strong as I used to be. So you're one of those paddle boarding's a whole new thing. I've learned. You're one of those assholes that come out to the softball field with a baseball background and beat the shit out of all of us weekend warriors. I got my ass handed to me from teams just like you, full of a bunch of ex-baseball players playing softball out there, whipping all of us dads up. Yeah, well, that's about all I am anymore, is just to just to add out there on the field. Awesome. OK, so a couple of things, Jason. Number one, and I'm sure Justin will get into this because he's the biggest athlete of the group. I would say nothing is going to get you better at a skill than practicing that skill. So what you do in the gym, and we'll get into that in terms of what exercises can complement what you're trying to do. But nothing is going to be in the gym that you do is going to be as effective as just practicing the skill of swinging and doing the paddle board. Yeah, definitely go through in terms of the skill of swing. Do you notice anything like a loss of power? Do you notice like any kind of hitching your swing now? Is there anything different that you can pinpoint, basically? Well, it may just be my swing motion. I think I'm hitting it fairly hard, but I'm not getting any lift on the ball anymore. Everything's on the ground. So I'm hitting hard grounders, but I can't seem to hit those line drives like I do. OK, and in terms of mobility, and I know over time, we sort of form into these certain positions throughout the day, which changes our mechanics with everything. And so that may be something to address in terms of pulling everything back into optimal posture. And then seeing if we can then really drive that leg drive and get that power back to really promote more of that power into the ball. Well, what about, Justin, what about some of your, I mean, you've taught me some really cool landmine exercises and some anti-rotational stuff for what he's doing? Yeah, so a couple things. So for rotation and anti-rotation as well, being able to really anchor your body down into that position, something I've worked with, even getting back into baseball with my son, noticing just how much kids really needed to learn how to anchor their body down and really be able to get that power through their feet and through their legs and getting those hips to really respond. So being able to really secure and get that core strength and everything to brace properly and then release with speed is everything. So once you just kind of go back and, I don't know, do you do much rotational work or much rotational strength in the exercises? No, I really haven't been. I've just been doing basic lifting here in my own gym with squat rack and barbell and some dumbbells. Jason, would you consider yourself tight? Would you say that you're a bit tight if you were to twist really hard or maybe tightness in your hips or the back of your legs? Yeah, everything's pretty tight. I listen to your advice about stretching and MAPS Prime. I can't say I've adhered to it too well. So yeah, I'm definitely kind of a bigger guy and definitely tight these days. Performance would be huge. I've worked with, so I never played a lot of baseball, but I did do a lot of boxing and there's a lot of rotation involved in the power. Oftentimes people lack power not because they're not strong, but rather because their tightness is preventing them from really generating that twisting, rotating power. I would work a lot on ankle, foot, and hip, and then back mobility. That will make the biggest difference. As far as strength is concerned, first I would focus on mobility because getting stronger without mobilities isn't going to make a big difference, but work on mobility. And then I would do rotational exercises. MAPS Performance has quite a few of those, especially in the second, I believe the second and third phase of the program. You combine mobility with rotational strength, and of course the technique, and you should see a huge difference. Yeah, you really want to just iron out anything getting in the way of natural fluid movement. And so to be able to kind of bring it back and do checks on all your joints to make sure they have nice fluid rotation and they respond appropriately, and you also have access to them and can brace and strengthen to support your joints, it may seem like you're regressing, but honestly, that's going to give you the most performance and bang for your buck out there in the field. This is why we're going to hook you up for free with MAPS Performance because I think it being scheduled into your, it sounds like you know that you've heard it from us, but then you haven't implemented into your routine, it's built into MAPS Performance. You have, you know, every other day is a mobility day, so you're doing the mobility stuff with all the unilateral and rotational stuff that we have in performance, I think would benefit a ton. Totally, and one last thing, Jason, the way you train mobility is different than the way you train strength. So with strength, you go into the gym, you lift heavy hard for an hour, you do that, you know, a few days a week. With mobility, you're better off doing 10 to 15 minute sessions twice a day. So frequency is very important with mobility. And I would suggest attaching it to something that you already do. So maybe like 15 minutes before breakfast and you know, 10 minutes before bed, do that every single day. Within a week, you should notice a difference. Okay, great. Excellent, man. Thanks for the support, brother. Thanks a lot. Yeah, I think, you know, one thing that I learned in jujitsu and the very little boxing that I did was I would train for strength and performance in the gym. And I would forget that 90% of it came from the technique and skill, you know? So it's like, I wanted to get better at a throw in judo, practicing the throw would be anything I could do in the gym. That's why it's so complex, because every sport has all kinds of nuanced movements that really, you know, like is very specific to that sport. And so to be able to unlock the movements is everything. The only way to do that really is to make sure you have good mobility and stability.