 All right, the first question is from Kyle D. Thomas. I know you're not fans of wrist straps because of losing the potential grip strengthening. What about chalk, liquid, or powder? My hands tend to sweat a lot and the chalk helps with that, but I don't want to hinder my grip strengthening. Yeah, no, chalk isn't going to hinder your grip strengthening. It's going to help you actually be more connected to the weights because the weight isn't slipping, especially if you have really slippery sweaty hands. I remember the first time I used chalk. So obviously growing up in the gym business, all the gyms I worked out in the early days banned chalk. So I actually never had access everywhere and never seen them, right? Never seen chalk, never really used it, worked out in the gym. If my hands would sweat, I'd wear gloves sometimes, but otherwise I didn't use anything at all. And then I went to a hardcore gym and saw that they actually had community chalk on the workout floor. I used chalk on the floor. I loved it. I was like, oh, this is cool. Let me try this. I've never used it before. Used it on my hands and I had a much better workout. Now it wasn't, and I use chalk, by the way, if I'm pressing even. So chalk, a lot of times people say, oh, it's to prevent your grip from slipping so you can hold on to more weight when you deadlift or pull heavy, which is true. But it also gives you better connection to the weight in my opinion, which is why I like to chalk my hands when I do presses or when I do laterals or any movement. It just makes me feel more connected to the way I get the best workouts with it. And I used to have all my clients chalk their hands when I would train them, even my elderly clients. Well, I want to address too that we're not anti-risk straps either. Like I've talked about using them. I think it's just, it's being mindful of it, right? It's turned into like a, you're a tire now, right? Like it's like now become a fashion thing where you wear straps or you wear a belt all the time. Like that's what I think all of us would agree that we're anti, right? I think wearing a belt, doing all kinds of, you know, machine exercises and cable exercises is ridiculous or wearing it all the time, even on squatting. Like you should, you should definitely train yourself to be able to squat and deadlift without a belt too. In fact, you should be able to do that 80 to 90% of the time without a belt. It doesn't mean that there isn't a place for you to utilize some of these tools. These tools have value and there's a lot of different examples where you can use them. It's just more about being mindful of not becoming dependent on it because in real life, you're never going to be walking around with your belt strapped around you or wrist straps strapped around you. And that's the point is to be strong in real life, not just when you go to the gym and it's for safety reasons to protect yourself. If you can deadlift and you've never deadlifted before without a belt or wrist straps and then you think you can lift, you know, 400 pounds because you do it in the gym all the time with wrist straps and then you hurt yourself with 200 pounds because you can't hold on the grip of whatever it is that you're picking up because you totally misjudged it because you've never trained without it. Like, so for me, it's like 80% of the time you're, I'm not using tools like this, but 20% of the time to insert it into my training every once in a while, I don't have a problem with either one of those. Yeah, I didn't get exposed to chocks while I was in college and training, you didn't know what the strength coach is. And I saw a chalk there and I used to use actually wrist straps a lot when I used to power clean because that was, you know, something that I saw everybody do and I thought that was just kind of a part of it in order to, you know, keep a nice tight grip. But it was very surprising to me what chalk provided in terms of security of my grip going, especially barbell training. So if you haven't done chalk with barbell training, it's a completely different feel where you do feel like you have a lot more control of the lift. Yeah, liquid chalk is pretty good too. It's not bad. It's not quite as good as powder, but you're not allowed to use powder chalk. I know and hardly any gyms. Yeah, none of them. So I mean, I work out my garage so I can use whatever I want. But when I go to the gym, I would get liquid chalk and some of them aren't bad. Some of them aren't bad, but it's not quite as good as normal chalk. Here's the other thing with wrist straps that you need to consider. Like a belt, it changes muscle recruitment patterns. It does studies will show that it changes how the patterns of your muscles work. So it not only prevents your grip potentially from getting as strong as it can. It also changes recruitment patterns that you get better at lifting with wrist straps and worse at lifting without them. This is not necessarily, this is not a good thing if you want your strength transfer into the real world. So people use wrist straps all the time are doing themselves, you know, a big dessert. Well, and I also found after using wrist straps for so long, you know, power cleaning that my wrist got really weak and dependent on just because of the support that it was also providing my wrists with these lifts. And so I had to retrain the way that I was able to catch the bar and get my wrists strong enough to then provide that stability. Yeah, now here's the thing too, your hands have tremendous capacity for strength. I think that there's a bit of a misconception that the hands are the weakest link. Therefore you need wrist straps because your back is so much stronger than your hands. For 90% of you listening right now, that'll never happen if your hands are trained properly. You know, we did evolve from primates. Our hands can be tremendously strong. I've pulled my max dead lifts without wrist straps and it's almost never do my hands get in the way, but it wasn't always like that. You know, when I use wrist straps and I finally took them off, it took me about a year. No joke of getting my hand, it took a while to get my hand grip and grip strength up to par to keep up with the rest of my body.