 Our first caller is Audrey from Pennsylvania. Hey Audrey, how can we help you? Hi guys. So first of all, thank you for everything that you do. It's an honor to be talking with you. So basically I'm normally a very active person and I had emergency surgery back in September for appendicitis and everything seemed to go well with that but during my recovery there seemed to be some type of nerve damage that had been done perhaps through the surgery or perhaps through working with my sports doctor. So what ended up happening was I had extreme 10 out of 10 pain most of the time for several months up until about April when I was able to finally do things again. What I did was I started with maps anabolic in pre-phase to get back into my lifting and then I worked through maps anabolic backwards from phase three to phase one. So my question is I'd like to get back some functional strength and my athleticism again. If I go into maps performance to accomplish that goal can I start at phase one even though I'm coming off of a similar the phase one of maps anabolic being heavy going into a heavy phase of maps performance. Yeah, that's a really good question. So for people who aren't familiar with the programs phase one of maps anabolic and phase one of performance they have some different exercises is a little bit different but essentially you're lifting heavy weight, lower reps, you're doing longer rest periods. And so the question is like, okay I'm moving out of that kind of a phase do I go straight into the similar phase into the next program? So my answer to that is yes, but I would shorten it. So I would do, you did three weeks of phase one and maps anabolic. Yeah, maybe two of performance. Yeah, I do one or two in mass performance and then move on. And the reason why I'm saying that's because it is different in mass performance in terms of the programming. The tempo is a bit different. A bit different. So I would go one to two weeks, phase one then jump right into phase two of performance and then you should be totally good. I can tell you listen to the show too for quite a bit I think that we've talked about that a long time ago, right? If somebody was injured, how I would train them. And I think I talked about Katrina training reverse, right? As far as anabolic, is that what made you decide to do that? I'm actually a personal trainer on the side. And yeah, but I've been listening to you guys since 2014. So you're my fitness mentors for sure. I love it. I love it. We've been around there. Yeah. I'm sorry to say again. No, I love that. I mean, I think that's just a smart decision after coming out of an injury like that, going right, some people start with like an anabolic and go right into strength. And I'm like, if you're just getting back from recovering starting, and so the audience that doesn't understand what we're talking about, phase three of anabolic is higher reps, right? Higher reps, lower weight. So I just think that's a smarter play even though in the program, that's our third phase. If I had somebody who was recovering from something or just getting off of a surgery, I would rather them do lighter weight and more reps until we fully recover before we go after like a strength phase. So I think that was a brilliant way to run that program. And you have access to Prime Pro and Prime, I see in the question, because those are the other things that I would say to add to your routine. Yeah, I did that as best I could during recovery. I was very, I was in a lot of pain. So even that was difficult for me, but I lost a lot of mobility. I lost a lot of weight. It was pretty terrible. Well, it's good to have you back. So you're a hundred percent now? Just about. I measure that by my deadlift weight last year, which was 260. So I consider myself at like, not anywhere near a hundred percent, but I'm working at it. Cool. Well, yeah, no, do what we said. I go one week or two weeks in phase one of performance and then keep moving. Those mobility sessions and performance, those mobility workouts are going to be really. Oh my gosh. Yeah, those are awesome. All right, cool. Thank you. Thank you for calling in. Thank you guys very much. Have a good day. No problem. Yeah, that's cool. It's cool to have a question from someone who's got some experience and kind of understand because the goal always was to create these programs, have people follow them and then kind of learn their body and adjust them to their individual needs. Because that's great that we have a podcast to explain it, you know, even further. And I think that's why it's important like you're able to do both because we did have to write those kind of generally. But I love the way that she was able to, you know, create that to be more specific to her needs. I talked about this right after Katrina's pregnancy. So, you know, and I got a lot of questions around, you know, why did you tell her to go to phase three in reverse? And it's not that she couldn't have started in anabolic phase one. I mean, I could have had her do that and then just told her, hey, back off the intensity and don't try and max load anything and take it easy. But it was just as it was easier for me to say, hey, just run the program in reverse. So that because what I'm looking at is I know that it's going to be 10 weeks or so before she even gets to really heavy lifting and she'll be lifting lighter weight for more reps, which is less risk when I have somebody who's, you know, in her case, just coming back from recovering from pregnancy or in this case, somebody recovering from injury. I think it's just a smarter strategy. And that's again, like to your point, this is how we always created these programs. It's not a one size fits all. It's, you know, you take the print core principles from them. It doesn't mean you can't modify and change.