 Next question is from Natalie Lawrence. Is it dangerous for short or slender people to lift weights? I'm 137 pounds and 5'2", and I've been advised by a physio to not lift heavy, and by a nurse not to lift at all. There must be a way for shorter people to lift without causing joint damage. So first off, we'll first fire your fucking physio and find another nurse. So to be fair, we don't know what the whole situation is. Well, yeah. So if it's an actual physical therapist, we don't know what the situation is. Now, a nurse has no knowledge or experience on exercise, so I wouldn't take that advice. That being said, here's the deal. Exercise, any form of exercise could be either dangerous or very safe. It's so moldable. It's how it's applied and isn't applied appropriately. It has nothing to do with your height and being slender. Nothing. Zero. Those factors don't even apply. Now, you're right. If she has some crazy condition that she's not disclosing right now, then yeah. But if we're going to go off with the information we have right now and being slender, short, tall, fat, wide, none of that has anything to do with whether you should lift heavy or not at all. No, and resistors training is one of the greatest forms of exercise because of how moldable it is. I could train a paraplegic with resistors training. I could train a kid with resistors training, an older person, a younger person, an athlete. All in how it's applied, choosing the right movements. Are they stable? Do they own that movement? Is it the appropriate resistance? If you do all the right stuff, not only is it safe, but you want to talk about your joints, you will strengthen your joints. You will improve your longevity. It's crucial you do it for strengthening your joints and alleviating pain. So that's why this advice is so wrong to me. It's just like they're not setting you up for success. Later on, you're going to have all kinds of problems by avoiding it. Yeah, this is the same. It's along the same lines of don't lift weights if you're too young because you're going to stunt your growth or women shouldn't lift weights. That was around for a long time. No, no, no. If you're a woman, you shouldn't lift weights. Absolutely ridiculous. The value that proper application of resistance training has is literally for everyone. In fact, when you're looking at exercise therapy, pre-surgery, post-surgery, injury rehab, the primary form of exercise that they use is resistance training. Now, they may not be using dumbbells and barbells, but they're using resistance bands or body weight or control and stability, but it's all resistance training. It's literally the safest form of exercise you could do if applied properly. Well, and understand, too, that there is a very big difference between lifting heavy and lifting shitty. So like if someone... Yeah, good point. I think that, oh, the reason why... So I'm assuming the argument that this physio has to be trying to say is that, oh, when you lift really heavy, your form is off, and then that stresses the joints. That's the only angle I could see them using. But, okay, yeah. So pick a weight that is heavy for you, but you can maintain good form. Right. And that is the goal. The goal is actually to lift as heavy as possible with good form. And the moment that form starts to waver in the slightest bit, then back off and perfect your form. But that should be a good goal of yours. It's, okay, when I put anything over 100 pounds on my back to squat, after anything over 100, I start to notice I shift a little bit or I cheat or I notice that my form isn't perfect. Right. Okay, great. Back it down to 190, get re... Back it down to 90, get really good at 90, and then move up to 105 and then 110. That should be what your goal is. That's the beauty of it. It's like you can regress, you can progress. And that's how you have to look at it. What can I do under control and maintain good posture, good mechanics and perform this appropriately? But the goal is to increase the resistance, increase the stimulus, increase the load. So that way you adapt, you change, you get stronger and you transform. Yeah, name one condition where getting stronger properly won't benefit it. You can't. Every single condition you can think of or situation, because there isn't a condition that exists where someone's too strong, will improve. I remember once I had a client who came to me, who told me it was a woman, and I don't remember the name of the condition off the top of my head, but she had a condition where her body was super lax. So she was hyper-mobile, but she also did no exercise, so she was also very weak. This meant that she was unstable and she had lots of pain, hip pain, knee pain, back pain. I mean, this was a woman that could literally... She could be a contortionist just if she wanted to. This is how lax her body was. So she came to me and she said, I've been told I can't do resistance training because of this. And I said, no, you can. We just need to do it appropriately and we cannot challenge your range of emotion because your range of emotion is so deep and you have no stability. For the first time in her life she had found something that took pain away. And I'll never forget. It was like a month into the training and I shortened her range of motion because again, she was so lax. She came to me and she goes, you know, Sal, for the first time in 10 years my back doesn't hurt when I'm sitting down for a long period of time. And she goes, you know, I can drive now without my hips bothering me and she's like, this is insane. I don't know why I've been told for so long that I shouldn't do it. And I said, I think it's because a lot of the ways that people have observed or doctors have observed people who lift weights, first off, come to them after they've been injured and they're basing it off of poor application of resistance training. If you do it right, like the doctor's not going to see the person hurt themselves doing it right. They're going to see all the people that did it wrong. So they're going to view it in that light. If you do it properly, again, it is the most applicable, safe form of exercise you can do. It doesn't matter how slim, slender, or short you are.