 The next question is from Michael G.J. How do I know when to increase or decrease workout intensity? Okay, you know, we did a podcast a while ago with Joe DeFranco, who I consider to be one of the best trainers in the world. In fact, I used to watch his stuff before Mind Pump, he was somebody that I looked up to. He inspired all of us. Yeah, you know, yeah, really, and the dude's just smart, very, very smart guy, very humble. And we did this podcast with him where we talked about heart rate variability. And, you know, the advanced coaches and trainers will measure the variability in your heart, you know, between your heartbeats or whatever, and depending on what that variability looks like, they'll know if they can train the athlete with more intensity or less intensity. But it's a very complicated process. I would never communicate that to the average person because it's just way too much. And he came up with this brilliant- I love this about Joe. He had this brilliant, brilliant way of doing it with his athletes. And what he would do is he would have an athlete take a grip tester where you can buy these really cheap on Amazon, where you squeeze it as hard as you can and it tells you how many pounds you squeezed or whatever. And you would have them do them, you know, squeeze this thing with the left and the right as hard as they can, and then do it over the course of, you know, a couple of weeks. Take the kind of average of the high scores and then if they came in for a workout, squeeze the gripper and it was below that number or way below that number. He knew that he would have to train them a little lighter because their body was a little fried. If they came in at that number or higher, okay, we're going to work out a little bit harder. I thought that was absolutely brilliant. I think that's a great way to, if you want to get specific, that's a great tool. Hand dinometer. Dinomometer. Yes. How do you say it again? Dinometer? Dino. I was like, yeah, I remembered what it was, but I can't pronounce it. Dinometer. I think that is. I mean, Joe is full of all kinds of brilliant information, but that was one of those like, I mean, that was just not that long ago for us, right? It was just what a year and a half, two years ago when Joe was here and he said that. And I remember looking at everybody's faces. All of us were like, oh man, I would have totally utilized that with my kids. We've been in this for a game for a long time too. So it's not often that we hear something from another coach or trainer that we went, holy fuck, why did I not do that? It simplifies it so much. And like you said, like, and I've gone through the HRV and really tried to mess with that with athletes and try and track and monitor that and see where their levels were for the day. And inevitably it would flux a lot. And it wasn't as accurate as you'd hope it would be in like with something that was like a reliable source. So like a lot of the times we were just like going based off of feel or whatever, like external factors, like if they had a lot of stress, they're carrying the outside of the actual workouts. Like that's what we were considering the most. Well, yeah, as an experienced trainer, once you've been doing this for a long time, you can get and you've had a client for a while. Oh, you could tell. I could tell. When I walk in the door. Exactly. Exactly. I could care eyes. I could tell about their posture. I could tell about the very first thing that we start to do like, oh, am I gonna be able to get after them today? Or am I gonna pull back on intensity? So when someone like this asks a question and we don't have, I don't have that, right? I don't have an example to pull back from when I've seen you work out before. To me, the best answer is what you just said with Joe. I mean, I don't think I've ever come across anything that I think is better to give to the masses is like, listen, this is a great way to get an idea of if you should pull back on intensity or get after them. Now, if you don't wanna test your grip, if you don't wanna get yourself a hand dynamometer or dynamometer, that's not sure which way is the right way to say it. Then you're gonna have to go based off of feel. Now, here's the trouble with going based off of feel. We lie to ourselves a lot. I still, I've been doing this for a long time. I still lie to myself. I'll go into a workout knowing I had bad sleep, knowing whatever. And then I'll take my pre-workout or whatever and be like, yeah, I'm just gonna crush it anyway. Knowing full well, if I'm being honest with myself that it probably should have gone a little easier. But at the end of the day, if you don't wanna measure and have something objective, you're gonna have to go based off of feel. Well, here's the thing though too. The opposite is true too though, Sal, depending on who the person is. You know, there's, how many clients have you trained that are looking for the excuse to- Exactly. Same. The real true thing is you have to have the awareness to know which one you are. Are you the person that is always looking for excuses to get out of a hard workout? Or are you the person that's always looking for excuses to push to your limits? And if whichever one you are, that's where you need to kinda check- Find balance. Exactly, you gotta check yourself on that because you may be that guy, but then I know most of my clients would be the other person. And most of my clients are like, oh, you know, I didn't get really good sleep last night, so can we just like stretch today or take it easy? And it's like, oh, okay, well, you know, that's gonna happen some days. And I'm, you know, I remember talking about referring back to great interviews that we did or friends of ours that were brilliant is Dr. Andy Galpin talking about, there are some benefits too to when we are overly stressed, tired, and may it may not be the most ideal day to work out that you also train intermittently like that too, is to sometimes actually push through that, you know? So your body can, you're building resiliency by that, that, you know, so every time- Navigate through that. Right, so I mean, if you think about it, if every time you have rough sleep or stress or hard time, you pass on a workout, you also, your body will adapt to that. That you, so you wanna make sure that you train it and challenge it. It's just like, which one do you abuse more? Are you the person who abuses the, oh, taking time off all the time? Or are you the person that abuses, I probably should have taken it easier today and I pushed too far.