 Next question is from Austin Owens Actual. Which training style do you all prefer? Percentage based or RPE based? If not either of these, what do you recommend? I laugh at these questions. People get so hung up on those. They do, and it's not the, I mean, I understand if you're a competitive athlete. Bro, no. It makes more sense. Like a power lifter, that's about it. Yeah, that's it. That's where I stop. That's it. If you're a power lifter, this makes total sense and it's the only time I don't laugh at this. But I built a competitive physique, the 1% of the 1% at the professional level without ever paying attention to any of these. No, I never once used any of these. I like feel, it's always feel for me. It's always feel because I can have a client come in and maybe today we're supposed to do 80% of whatever and I ask them, hey, how do you feel? Or I'm watching them as a trainer. Oh, it looks like they're a little out of it or whatever, we're gonna go easier. You have to train your body for that moment, how you feel physically and also mentally. By the way, you can feel great physically, feel poor mentally and that'll have a massive effect on your performance and how your body recovers and responds. So really it should be based off of how you feel. Now here's the problem with that. Is that a lot of people want objective measures. Like tell me, number, whatever. Now I know heart rate variability was promised to do that. The problem with heart rate variability was it's kind of a pain in the ass, you gotta be real good at measuring, have that right technology to do it. Now what it did. Not always accurate either. Not always accurate, but it was better than nothing. It was probably the most objective way that we saw. And then not that long ago, we had DeFranco on the show and I thought like he said. I love what he did. Was absolutely brilliant. So I'll show. Which of course it came from someone like him. Somebody who we respect in the industry, one of the best trainers and coaches that's been doing this for a really long time. Of course he came up with a simpler, yet very effective way. Very effective. So I'm gonna show everybody. So if you're watching this on YouTube, you can see I have a, and I don't know how to say this, right? A dime, a dinometer. Dino meter, dinometer. Dino mighty. Yeah, anyway, you essentially you squeeze this and it measures your grip strength. And so here's what he said. And I thought this was absolutely brilliant. So these are devices that are very typically inexpensive. I know we have one on our site. So you can buy these on our site if you want to. You essentially what you do before your workout. First off, you wanna set up kind of like a control, right? So every day before your workout. You wanna calibrate. You wanna squeeze this as hard as you can with both hands and write down the whatever number you got. And then also at the end of your workout, mark down how you felt. How strong were you? Did you have a lot of energy? After about a week or two, you'll start to see some correlations. Oh, on the days I had great workouts, my number was this. On the days I was whatever, my numbers were this. Then you can start to use the number that you get on your gripper test or whatever as a way to dictate. For those of you that want objective numbers, how hard you should work out. So you squeeze it and say, oh wow. It's a readiness gauge. It's testing your CNS. Which is great. So you kind of know what you're working with for that day and like how hard you should push. Or it's just, it's a more of a way to actually find a real metric out there to kind of identify how you're feeling. But it's still feel-based. Yes. Well, that's the reason why. I mean, our good buddy, Craig Capurso, he built an app around this. It was the flaw that we saw in this was like, you can't have a computer mathematically figure this out for you. Perpetual progress doesn't exist. No. It goes all over the place. And it can't figure out what happened last night. I mean, last night could have been, you got some crazy news that was devastating with your family. Then you stayed up all night. You got terrible sleep. And then here you are showing up to your workout. And you can't mathematically figure that out. And your computer's already told you what you're supposed to do that day. Where me as a coach, if I was training you, I would ask you, how was your night last night? And you say, oh, I just found out. My grandmother passed away and I didn't sleep very much. Me as an experienced coach knows right away. I might've had a plan today that I was gonna push you to this RPE or I was gonna push you at this percentage. But now I'm calling an audible because I know what happened last night. Well, this is the problem too, back to our earlier conversation about tech products. Like this is what they don't understand. There's a lot more to it than ones and zeros. It doesn't just work out in a perfect formula and laid out like there's so many variables and you have to have like individual coaching to make it work. Right, and this is why I like, and again, it's not perfect. You gotta base it off of how you feel and how you perceive yourself to feel. So it's important because people tend to second guess themselves. Do I really feel good? Do I really feel bad? Whatever you feel you feel and that's kinda your truth, right? That's the truth of how your body's gonna perform essentially. But the reason why I like the dynamometer, dynamometer, I think that's me right, is because it measures in real time your CNS and how great you're squeezing, right there. So it's like literally right before you work out, you crush it with your hand and you see what your score was and then use that in combination with how you feel. Like, ah, I feel kinda crappy. Let me check. You squeeze it, you see your number like, oh yeah. Definitely have an easier workout to do. And that's the trick here too is not like, cause I wanna caution, cause you're gonna get people to buy this and be like, Sal, my number's at this. What should I do? It's like, you need to do the work just like I would coach somebody with nutrition. You gotta see what your numbers are. You need to track. Yeah, you need to track for a while to find out what a high number and a low number is for you. What do you squeeze? Yeah, what is the peak you, like if you track, I like to see two weeks personally. Like, I like to see two weeks of every single morning. It's the same time, same everything. You squeeze this thing, right? And you find out over those two weeks, okay, where's my high and where's my low and then that's your range. And so then going forward, when you go to squeeze this before you go to work out and you see where you landed, oh, wow, I'm on the peak. This is like, I'm gonna get after it today. Oh, wow, I'm towards the bottom or I'm in the middle. So, and you adjust your intensity based off like that. Absolutely, it's perfect.