 Next question is from illuga. Do posture correction devices work? And if so, will it naturally carry over to better form when lifting terrow idea? Well, there's two types. There's two because I, you know, they're the ones that you're probably thinking of Adam or the ones that like You wear the straps and they hold your shoulder back or whatever. Yeah. Yeah Though that's one type of posture correction device. These are ones that well, I'll tell you so there's there's ones that hold you in posture So I've seen all kinds of variations of them But typically what they do is you put them around your shoulder. It looks like a backwards bra. Yeah You tighten up the back in a row. It holds your shoulders back So while you have this on well, it looks like you have good posture So it's correcting your posture. The reason why those are terrible is because they take over From the muscles that are supposed to be doing that and you actually cause the muscles Weaken them that are weak weaker. You make them weaker and extrinsic. It's not intrinsic Yes, and you actually will get worse posture from that I mean you'll feel good while you have it on once you take it off Those muscles that are supposed to do that. They've been so turned off They'll get so weak that your posture will get worse and worse and worse over time Now there's other posture correction devices that require activation now These are ones where it's like a little device you wear you you actually stick between your shoulder blades Some of them are even embedded in shirts and what they do is they beat the little buzz Yeah, they beep when your posture goes out and so it's always reminding you to stand with better posture now Those are better because they require you to activate the muscles Here's why I think that those are also not the greatest if you don't know how to properly activate those muscles All you're gonna be doing is strengthening bad recruitment patterns We know this is trainers when I would get a client this is actually in fact I used to do this this was a technique I used to sell my value as a personal trainer I would take a client do my assessment I would point out their issues with posture point out what that causes and I'd say you probably have neck tension You probably notice this and they'll say yes. Yes. Yes, then I'll say you know Here's a great exercise to correct that and I would go to a cable row and I demonstrate the cable row Should them show them how to pull their shoulders back squeeze the mid-back drop the shoulders Activate the muscles that give them good posture then I'd have them sit down And I'd hold their shoulders and put them in position as they rode and really Actively get them to activate the muscles. I'd have them do a few reps Then I'd let go and I'd say now do five more on your own and I'd film them with my phone And then here's what would happen the first rep would look good on their own Second one look bad third one look worse force one look terrible They started to revert back to the muscles that were doing the work in the first place They couldn't they couldn't activate them properly. They weren't strong enough yet, and then I would show them and say look Here you hear you hear your form without me shows that can you see the difference how your shoulders were going forward? If you did this exercise without a good trainer, especially in the beginning stages of training All you do is make your posture worse because you don't know how to activate it would blow their mind They would hire me because they'd see my value You wear a device that reminds you to pull your shoulders back and you have weak connection to those muscles You're just gonna shrug your shoulders or you do something else. That's weird to get the device somewhat reliant. I honestly I it's interesting because Teaching your kids how to ride a bike now is so different than it was for us growing up like we had we had training wheels We had training wheels on the back and you would you know feel a little bit imbalanced But then you get corrected and it corrected it for you versus a strider bike where you know There's no pedals, you know, you're learning basically how to balance first, which is everything so much better It's so much better because you're actively part of the process of balancing and then otherwise you can't you know Sustain what you're doing and so I look at it the same way It's just a better method is to really understand You know the entire process what it takes to stabilize yourself and be a part of the process versus You know having something sort of beeping at you to get you to check it right now because remember this your posture is not bad Because you're forgetting to stand with better posture. That's not why your posture is bad first off posture is it's it's a It's just it's a subconscious thing like breathing like you're not breathing bad because you're forgetting to breathe properly Imagine having to remember to stand with good posture all day long. That's kind of stressful Nobody lives that way, you know, we stand the way we do it and then we do lots of other things So these devices aim to make you aware of your posture constantly throughout the whole day But the problem is they're not adding enough resistance and they're not teaching you how to activate the right muscles and get them stronger Because if you do it right, let's say you follow the program like like maps prime pro Or you work with a trainer and they're actually actively teaching that a strength in those muscles What ends up happening if you do it right is that proper posture Happens on its own. You're not sitting there thinking of good posture. You just stand and you you know your posture is a lot better