 Next question is from Dan yo 1212 can I build mass only with 50 pound dumbbells Good question. Yeah. Yeah, absolutely. You can now I guess the the real question is what happens when I get so strong that the 50 pound dumbbells start to feel light Yeah, try it try a try a six second negative and get back to me. I was just gonna say A lot of variables we can play with there's many ways to make a weight heavier Remember your body doesn't really know you're lifting 50 pounds. It just knows the tension One way to make a weight heavier is to add weight like duh the other ways to go slower Changer some metrics. Yeah, I submit hold the squeeze hold in certain positions hold the stretch I did this last week with squats. I you know, I had some weight on the bar and rather than going heavier I just held the bottom position for five seconds. I love so I love that, right? I so one of my favorite exercises and it's about 50 pounds is what I do this with is Incline alternating dumbbell press and I'm whole I either hold at the bottom or I hold the top and I switch that up You know, so I'll do an isometric hold at the top where I'm squeezing my chest with the other ones going down And I'm alternating back and forth like that or I'll do the opposite where I'm holding down in the stretch position And then but you're maintaining tension exactly not like resting. Yeah. No, it's isometric So I'm so you're getting that we talk about the benefits of that and a lot of people don't include that in their workout That's a great way to include in your workout and a great reason to do it is because you don't have the weight to scale So interesting story, right? So during World War two there weren't a ton of gyms But there was definitely there was at the time there was a developing muscle building culture where you had You know, you know some guys that would like to lift weights to develop and build their body Especially in Southern California and some places on the East Coast during World War two There was they were rationing steel, right? They needed it to produce planes and bombs and weapons and so it was Hard to get weights that were heavier than I don't remember what the weight was but a certain amount It was just too expensive too hard. You couldn't get it So at the time the bodybuilders started experimenting with super slow motion He's called super slow motion reps where they go really slow So you got these guys that are used to lifting 200 or 300 pounds now They all they have a hundred pounds. What can they possibly do? That's exactly what they did They slowed the reps down and what came out of that was the understanding that you could develop your body with these Different novel ways of training and it became a whole form a whole way of Still there's a lot of camps around that way of training. I so I'll never forget This was my I want to say third second or third boss when I was just getting into training and he was probably 25 I'm only like 20 at the 1920 at this time and I remember he's great great shape in fact. He competed But the way he trained was the super slow technique that everything he did was that So he would take a weight and he would I mean he would just go as slow as possible And sometimes it'd only be three reps and he would come it would take it the muscle to failure that way under control And I guy looked phenomenal, dude, and that's how he trained and buff up into that point I never kind of bought into that. I wasn't doing any isometric stuff I was never really paying attention to the eccentric motion and going really slow After meeting him that changed my training I started to play around with it and then I started to dig a little bit deeper You guys talk about slow nice, but you can also like move really fast with them You can you can write dumbbell snatches you can do cleans you can do a lot of things where you're getting fast twitch activation With those 50 pounds and you know get a whole new stimulus completely It's just again. There's so many ways to make a weight feel heavy You don't need to add weight every single time you look at guys in prison when they start especially in California They took weights out right and they couldn't lift anymore They would experiment with stuff like this and it was like in the guards a lot of the guards were like damn What do we do now as these dudes are still jacks? Oh and imagine and you know, you throw out some cool stuff I could take a 50 pound dumbbell chest press and then super set that with explosive push-ups Yeah, right afterwards. I mean, there's a lot of cool things, you know Katrina and I were we're getting ready to move soon and so we're actually ordering a PRX for the house because we'll be far from the gym here and I told her just to get up to 50 pound dumbbells exactly what she's like You know, let's get some dumbbells, too And I'm like, ah, you know what? We don't need a whole set of them I got plenty at the studio and as long as I got up to 50s there. I know I can get a great workout still So I mean this for when you do your really heavy training. Yeah Yeah, I mean honestly It's funny that you know, we were talking about a question like this and that was something that we literally were talking About last night about only getting those You know, sometimes I do better when I this is all I have to work with Versus knowing that there's a bunch of weight and the desire because I want to lift heavy It's just I think it's it's there seems to be more intent around your workouts that way Yeah, right and you know what when you have to move slow and control like that because you don't have your forms It'd be way better way better less likely to get hurt and injured and most people need to throw that type of training in there Every once in a while. So no, there's a lot of value to this