 Next question is from RC Legs. Is working out barefoot a good idea? Is there any preparation that needs to be done before doing so? Definitely. Yeah, working out barefoot is a great idea. However, if you never are barefoot and you never work out barefoot, just taking your shoes off and going and doing a barefoot, you're probably gonna cause problems because you've adapted to your shoes, you've developed biomechanics based on your shoes and going out and loading yourself with your bare feet, your feet are probably weak, they don't move well, they're probably not very stable, and then you'll cause some problems. So you wanna slowly ease yourself into barefoot training. So what it looks like as you drop the load way down, maybe you half your workout barefoot or some exercises barefoot. Maybe get minimized type shoes so just reduce the sole or get something that's a little more flat and flexible. Yeah, you gotta look at it in incremental ways to address this, to really bring yourself down to that place where you feel like you're stabilized properly. So even just the very first step of taking your shoes off when you get home and walking around the house barefoot more consistently before you start loading them with weight would be a good start. And that's how I started. So we talked a lot about barefoot training early on in the podcast and I really had never done it, never prioritized it. And I really didn't see the importance of it until we had met Dr. Brink. We hung out and as I wanna see what his toes are doing, you can see his left toe is worse than his right toe. He's gonna pronate a little bit more on his left side versus his right side. So that means his foot's flattening. His foot is flattening, correct. So yeah, so he's gonna create a little internal rotation of this entire left leg a little bit more on his right side. So this may affect him when he's wanting to run if he was to run or just basic walking, squatting. You know, any motion that's gonna create movement through the hip is now gonna cause some of those issues. Makes perfect sense, it all starts from the ground up. I saw that a lot of my dysfunction was stemming from my weak ass feet and poor ankle mobility. Weak ass feet. Yeah, I had weak ass feet and I had Yeah, poor ankle mobility. And so that complete, I mean, it shattered my paradigm. And then from that moment on, I decided, okay, I'm gonna strengthen my feet. I'm gonna work on my ankle mobility. And what that looked like was not me right away going barefoot and then doing my regular workout all barefoot. It started with me just walking outside every day for 10, so I walked Masi and well Bentley back then twice a day. And I would just take, I would do barefoot now. I never used to do that before. And so I'd just start by a 10 minute walk twice a day walking barefoot. And then I started working on the ankle mobility. Cause here's the thing too, you gotta keep in mind probably one of the more limiting factors with working out barefoot is squatting, right? So doing anything where you have to drop down into a squat, most people have limited ankle mobility and the heel rise helps us all out. So, and depending on how thick of shoes that you wear when you squat down and you're barefoot you gotta have really good ankle mobility in order for you to get all the way down into a full squat. Otherwise you're gonna see a deviation. Most likely you'll start to see the feet start to collapse, collapse inward. So if you notice that then don't just work out through that you need to address the issue which is the lack of ankle mobility and then the strengthening of the feet. So the other thing I'd start to do is, you know waking up, there's what 7,000 nerves that end up in our feet. And so before I'd start even going on walks or training them I'd roll on a lacrosse ball and I'd put the lacrosse ball in the center and I'd try and articulate my toes and kind of wake up all those muscles that are in your feet before you go in and like lift heavy weight on them. So progress slowly and make it a habit every single day and then you can start to progress it into your work. Yeah, we really need to understand that so much of what we do is based off of our body's ability to do those things. And if you don't ever do it you don't have the ability and you need to respect that. You know there was that book that came out I don't know how long ago, it was 15 years ago and it was like this barefoot running book and it like it took the running world by storm, right? This guy went and studied these cultures that ran all the time. So there was like this born to run. I think that might have been it, right? And he watched them run and all these cultures, he was in Ethiopia and he was in different parts of the world and he's watching them run and they're running up until they're in their 70s but they run all the time since they're kids and they're all barefoot. And he filmed how the foot struck the ground and moved and he realized that when these people ran because they ran barefoot they struck the ground four foot first and then heel. So like the ankle in the foot is this big shock absorber. When we run with big padded heel running shoes we go heel first. So we lose the shock absorbing effect of the foot and the ankle. So he wrote this big thing and said, oh my God, running barefoot's the way to go. It's the way we were supposed to run. So a bunch of people are like beautiful threw their shoes away, went running barefoot ended up with a lot of injuries and problems because they'd never run that way. So you got to respect it and take your time but once you get there, then it's pretty amazing.