 Question is from BR Porter 23. What is the difference between priming and warming up? Major difference. One specific, the other one is nothing. Aimless. One is just getting your core temperature up. Yeah, warming up, the goal of warming up, if you ask anybody, like, why are you warming up? What's the goal? Well, the goal is to prevent injury. Okay, that's great. That's the least that proper warming up or priming. By the way, priming, warming up, they both entail doing something before your workout to prevent injury and make your workout more effective, or at least that's what they should do. Now, warming up, general warming up, without any real individualized attention or attention to how you move or with any corrective component, you're gonna get some injury prevention benefits, but you're not gonna get a lot of getting better results benefits or being stronger benefits or improving movement benefits. That's what priming does. Priming is very individualized. So really they're the same thing, but they're not because priming is incredibly, so I'll give you an example, right? So let's say you have somebody with, let's say I have a female client who can't feel her glutes when she does squats or deadlifts and her butt is underdeveloped. A warm up might be, hey, let's have you walk on the treadmill. Right. Do some general stretches. Grab your quads, stretch your quad a little bit. Just stretch everything out. Do the cross your legs over and stretch your hamstrings. Yeah, just do a general thing. Now priming, what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna look at her movement patterns. I'm gonna say, okay, you're not feeling your glutes. Let's prime your glutes in a way so that you know how to connect to them. Oh, it looks like you have some ankle mobility problems. Let's work on your ankle mobility so that when you squat, you have better form. Oh, it looks like you have forward shoulder. Let's prime your body properly so that you can hold yourself in that proper posture better because you can feel the muscles more effectively and because now you have familiarity with what proper posture is supposed to feel like, which is what proper priming does. So if you prime properly, you go into your workout and it's like you take, imagine this, your workout has a potential, the number is 100. The most you can get out of your workout is 100. Proper priming ensures that you get as close to 100 as possible. If you don't prime, you're lucky if you get 100. You're probably gonna only get a fraction of the total potential because you're not able to get into those positions properly, feel the muscles you wanna feel. So priming makes a huge difference. Well, and the point you're making too, this is why we created a program around it because it's not as simple as just warm up or telling the audience like, oh, here are priming movements for you. Well, it should be individualized, right? You should have somebody, hopefully a professional or in this case, we have an at home test that you take where we broke the body up in three zones and we have you do this test and it's either pass or fail in each zone. So if you cannot do this movement perfectly, it's considered a fail. If it's a fail, there are a series of movements that we tell you you should do to prime your body to help you with exercises that would require those movement patterns. So that is the idea. The idea is that you take a test like this, you learn what areas are where you have dysfunction or you don't have great mechanics and then you start to prime exercises to help you perform exercises better. And then it's specific to you. And that's what your warm up, quote, unquote, prime priming should look like every day before you go into your workout. And it should be very specific to you. It's about setting the position. It's about being able to stabilize the joints and getting those supporting cast muscles activated. And then that way we can take that now into that specific exercise and you're gonna have a more effective form with that. You're gonna fall right into the most optimal recruitment pattern. So it just helps you to eliminate a lot of the compensations that may occur or when you go through the motions, you're not actually activating the ideal muscles that you want. Yeah, look at it this way. Should everybody work out the same way? We're all working out. We're all in the gym doing the same exercises. We're all doing the same stuff. We're all working out. How effective is that versus all of us work out differently based on our goals and our bodies, our current fitness level and all the other factors that make us individuals. Which one is more effective? Oh, it's night and day, not even close. It's not even in the same universe at how fast your body will progress and the kind of results you'll get if your workout is individualized versus a just general going to the gym and just moving type of workout. Same thing with priming and warming up. So if you're like, I warm up and I feel okay and you've never really truly primed, you have, it's like you were born with one eye closed. You have no idea what you're missing until you open the other eye. You have no idea what priming can do for your body unless you've actually primed your individual body. Once you do it once, you'll never go back to warming up again.