 Next question is from stones and lead. How can you tell the difference between fatigue and tiredness? When should or shouldn't you try to push through it? This is a good question because it's a hard one to explain But I will say this this might help Rarely does it rarely is the answer not Movement sometimes it is but rarely is that the answer now the kind of movement you do This is where there's a big difference. So what I do if I feel Fatigued or tired rarely will I not do a workout? But what I will do is I'll start and I'll go very easy and very light and if it's just me being Unmotivated usually what happens is I start to feel more energy And I start to feel better and then I start to ramp up my workout If I'm actually tired and my body's like literally like really fatigued in a real way The light workout I can tell I do the light workout. I'm moving or I'm just going for a walk. I'm like, oh, yeah I'm I'm definitely tired. I'm gonna keep it very easy and it's not bad for you It's actually quite recoupative. Now if it's the kind of tiredness or fatigue that you need to not work out Usually you feel almost ill. That's that's my experience where you're like, oh man, I don't I have a headache I really don't feel good. I need to go to bed But usually any movement as long as it's appropriate is it's probably a good idea Do you guys remember the conversation that we had with Dr. Andy Galpin around this? Optimizing versus yeah, and that stuck with me and it reminds me of like this question right now And one of the points that he was making was that there's also benefits to being tired and exhausted and pushing The body still occasionally So I think the answer to me for this question is if this is a Once in a while thing, I think there's actually lots of benefits to you know, oh man, I didn't sleep very well I'm a little tired. What are that? I'm gonna push through and still get after it that every once in a while if this is a Consistent thing that's reoccurring where you're not getting a lot of sleep at almost every night And you're constantly pushing the body in your tires. That's right So I think if this is like a one-off where it's just like man just today I just don't feel like it like there's I think there's tremendous value in pushing through that But if this is you are consistently tired and feeling fatigued going into workouts Then you probably need to look at your sleep your diet stress and other factors in your life So that's kind of how I try and look at it now is that if this is something that's considered a repeat offender right versus just one time because I think I want to be careful or Before we had that conversation with Andy Galpin I kind of had more the I think the point sows coming from which is hey Nothing just take it back off a little bit But then you tell that to a client that is already unmotivated to train and work out And it's kind of like giving them the past that though you feel tired today Don't don't worry about pushing hard So then they they never stretch their capacity because they got the they got the okay from their trainer that hey If you feel a little tired nothing wrong with like taking it easy So it really depends on who I'm talking to on if they would have value with pushing now Taking the opposite example somebody who is addicted to the gym. They train seven days a week They're always getting after it and then they have a day like that I'm gonna lean more towards what sows saying which is hey like back off take it easy like you're consistent as hell You train hard all the time your body's obviously telling you you're not feeling well right now with that doesn't hurt to Bring up drop the intensity But if it's somebody who has a hard time being even consistent in the gym And they're always looking for an excuse of why they shouldn't lift or why they shouldn't push their body It probably there's probably more value and then pushing through yeah I've seen both both scenarios and that's a good point to bring up because it's You sometimes you have to talk some of your Fanatical gym people off a cliff and be like you need to address this like this is a signal of the body that's telling you You know, you're either not getting enough sleep or you know recovering properly, which means like you're really not pushing forward You're not adapting your you're just you know healing and then you know trying to You know keep going and just survival mode Versus yeah, like the majority of clients though that we had were The biggest issue was frequency. It was just to get them in and to just keep going and to know that they could They have another operating system even when they aren't feeling up to it that they can pull from so yeah It really does depend yeah now the individual Adam Because you're you're right now experiencing some kind of lingering. It's like two and a half weeks past I'm not sure right, but you're are you also not moving or are you doing? Oh, I mean I move a little bit, but to be honest with you I mean, it's so I'm so fatigued and so tired that it I mean I was playing With the we have like a little Fisher price basketball hoop in our house what then I was playing with max you just dunking on them Yeah 20 minutes literally and then I like right after fell on the beanbag passed out snoring it like three o'clock in the afternoon So I'm really like I'm definitely feeling the effects of the long COVID. They call it right? So and I'm not and I'm not worried about I'm not training like so I should I want to you know I told Katrina last night man I really want to get in and maybe I'll do a little lift tomorrow But I'm so I'm so feeling under the weather that I'm not even thinking about pushing my body right now In fact, I'm more concerned that doing that may send me backwards. I'm not and I know I'm losing muscle I know I'm getting weaker like I know that I'm very aware of that But I'm I'm not allowing that to be my driver of my decision on should I lift or train today or not? And so, you know for me go into the grocery store or walk around the block for 15 minutes is Strenuous enough that it's putting me and knocking me out So thinking that if I go get under a barbell and start squatting even at 30% intensity still too much for me So