 Our next speaker up is Mark Alexander. He's the CEO and founder of Efficient Exercise. The company has been around for about 12 years. He's also the CEO and founder of ARX Fit, and we're gonna get to see how this machine works, which is very exciting. He kind of grew up in the Nautilus heydays. He's got some awesome stuff to share. Help me welcome Mark to the stage. Hello everyone, and my counterparts, Keith and Skyler did a great job, and I'm just honored to kind of be on a team with them. There is a problem, as I see it, in the health and fitness industry, and it does affect other industries as well. That problem is there's a cloud of information. It's an ever-growing cloud of information, and oftentimes it's conflicting, oftentimes it's BS, and we're here to try to help you understand that it really can be simple, it really can be achieved, and we're not saying that our job is easy because there's a lot of factors that go into helping someone transform their lives, but like Keith just mentioned in the health versus performance talk, it is a simple solution. It doesn't take much intervention to achieve your health goals, and again, the problem really is deciphering through all this and deciding what is best for you. That's where we come in. One major portion of the solution is proper resistance training. I can't emphasize that enough. I'll probably say it several more times, but proper resistance training gives you most bang for the buck, if you will, on your exercise investment. There are many ways to do it, and I'm gonna kind of dive into some of those, and part of the solution that we feel and has really helped us in the last couple of years since we've developed it is the ARX technology. Specifically, I'm gonna address the ARXFit Omni today. The reason I'm focusing on the Omni in this particular environment is that we have developed this to be able to have home use. In other words, you can buy this for your home or we have a commercial version that has little more bells and whistles, but again, it is applicable and very useful for the home use or in a commercial setting. So, I'm gonna try to keep it basic, brief, kind of like our workouts. We know that they're, again, are simple solutions to health and fitness. People are trying to sell you something so they always try to make it a little more complicated. You gotta come in five times a week. But the goals for the talk today are to know what your exercise focus should be. You need to understand the advantages and disadvantages of various resistance training modalities. And I also want you to fully grasp, at least have a much better understanding of what our ARX adaptive resistance exercise technology is. At least understand a little bit better, know why it's different without actually having to get your hands on it. But many of you will have the opportunity to play with the toy. We all like shiny toys. So, your focus. Focus on resistance training. Again, proper resistance training gives you the most metabolic and anatomic improvements and the most bang for your buck. It should be safe, effective, and efficient. That's kind of our motto at Efficient Exercise. If it's safe, if a training program is continually hurting you, I call that wrong. I call that that shouldn't be done unless you're trying to, as Keith alluded to earlier with the performance, you're trying to improve your performance of something. Well, maybe you're going to risk that injury. For health reasons, it should always be safe. If it's always injuring you, I hear crossfit of shoulder injuries, whatnot. Watch out, just watch out. I'm not saying that it can't work, just be careful. Effective, if it's not getting you marked results over years of training, it's wrong. A lot of programs work for a short period of time, almost anything does. But if you're not continually improving, getting that metabolic currency of lean muscle mass, again, something's probably wrong. And it needs to be efficient. Again, for health benefits, an hour or less a week with our new technology, 10, 15 minutes a week, you really don't need very much if you're doing it in the right way. So again, if I can't emphasize it enough, focus on proper resistance training. Skyler alluded to strength training. Only reason I've started to adopt resistance training is with a new technology, when you say strength or weight training, technically this is resistance training because we've developed a new type of resistance, not that something hasn't been done before. I don't wanna lay claim to something that, really there's nothing new under the sun. People always try to lay claim to I invented this or that, but what we're doing is we're adapting it into a way that makes it accessible and we hopefully can reach a broad swath of people, especially again, specifically here with the Omni because we're trying to make it affordable and accessible with this proper resistance training. So again, focus on Malibu Mark, what he tells you to eat and then focus on proper resistance training and you're pretty much golden. Yes, there are things that come up, there are life events that come up, stressors, whatnot and injuries, but in general, proper safe resistance training and a paleo-primal centered diet really gets you a long way. So just to dive into some of the various modalities of resistance training, you have free weights, you have body weights, you have machine-based protocols, nautilus machines that again, I grew up with very influential in how I think, but just understand there are inherent inefficiencies within each one of those systems. Almost anything can work. Again, we can't stress that enough. We do use different tools that efficient exercise for example, but again, just understand they're inefficient in various ways. For example, body weight, maybe it works for a little while, but most people progress pretty quickly where body resistance exercise is not going to be sufficient stimulus to produce the metabolic and anatomic changes that you really want. You might get better at climbing a tree, but that's not going to necessarily make those improvements that most people are desiring. You also again, can waste a lot of time. I've seen power lifting routines that take an hour and a half and most of that is warm up. And it's just true. You have to load those plates on and you have to take them off and you have to figure out your percentages and what you're doing that day. So again, it can work for specific goals, but there's a lot of wasted time in there. Also, there's been a lot of work, give credit where credits do. Arthur Jones and Nautilus really did a lot of work to kind of fight against some of these improper biomechanics, leverage advantages and things within free weights and created the Nautilus Cam. Beautiful design, again, influential in how I think about machine design. Even that though, with this type of technology can become a pursuit that is really a moot point now. Can you use a Nautilus and perfectly design Cam? Of course, and it works well. We've used that for years at Efficient Exercise. I know Dr. McGuff is in here and he uses MedEx and Super Slow Machines as well. Of course that can work. Again, but what I'm trying to tell you is there are inefficiencies and if you're designing a perfect Cam, for example, who is that for? It's usually designed around averages. Maybe someone five, nine, 180 pounds. What about the six, seven basketball player? What about the five, one female? What about long limbs, short limbs? Even with an adjustable Cam, they still have those constraints. So we're taking that out. How does the Omni and ArcSit technology really address that? The Omni specifically addresses some of that through again the adaptive nature of it. The system is designed to adapt to the user, not selecting a predetermined weight and hopefully that is right for set amount of time or effort. There's also, again, kind of going into the various modalities. You have kind of schools of thoughts, kind of a continuum, if you will, of ultra constrained versus outright mimicry of movements. We're hopeful to find kind of that balance in between. And what I mean by that is the ultra constrained thought is you isolate every muscle group. You get in with two belts and a neck pillow and you're very much locked in. Unless you're a fighter pilot, you don't really encounter that type of constraint any other time. There are some values to that, especially in rehab environments, but in real life, we find that that over constraining mentality is not quite right. Nor do we feel like outright mimicking certain movements, specifically, you see it all the time with a golf swing or a baseball bat where they're adding resistance to it. That's actually been debunked. A weighted bat is still used, you see it all the time, and it actually can make your swing slower. People just have gotten ingrained, like much of the health and fitness world, in certain habits. Those habits might not be the most efficient. We're here to, again, try to help you decipher and make good decisions based on what we know from science. The Omni also has a freedom of movement. So that's kind of the hopeful balance, if you will, between the ultra constrained, isolating type of environments versus mimicking certain movements. For example, humoral abduction, moving the arm in is one of the major functions of the pectoral muscle. So if you press and also converge the hands, you'll engage the chest. Most people are familiar with the bench press. Yes, it works the pecs, and yes, it works the triceps, but if you were able to finish like this, you have a slight more bit of pectoral contraction. So the Omni can do that. The Omni also has the ability to kind of find your sweet spot, if you will. If you kind of like a dipping or decline movement, if you kind of like a subtle incline, you can go with that, whereas even machines that do that, the medics chest press comes to mind, you're still in one plane. You can change a seat and whatnot, but again, you're still in the plane that it fixes you in. The biggest reason that we went for this design and this new technology is efficiency. I'm an efficiency fanatic. I try to work out just minutes a week. I have a family, I have much more important things than spending a lot of time in the gym. Usually, we find that everyone comes to a point in their life where they ask why and they seek efficiency in a lot of ways, but I'll address just the exercise way. Sometimes that comes from an injury. Again, I mentioned CrossFit. We see Crossfitters that come in to see Keith or Skylar. My shoulder never gets better. Well, no shit, you're fucking it up when you're doing your CrossFit. And so that's one thing that we see quite a bit. Lack of results. You see these people read in the Bro Science bodybuilding magazines. And you've got people not seeing results from six or seven days a week training them. Come on, what's going on? And then you also, again, just have real life happening, whether it's relationships, whether it's kids, whether it's profession, a lot of things get in the way, if you will, of training. That's not a bad thing. You just need to seek the efficient manner of training and the proper manner of training so that then all that is maximized. I find nothing wrong with trying to make money, but if you're training 25 hours a week, where's your opportunity to be in this capitalist society? So we're asked many times, kind of about the accessibility of the ArcFit technology. Where can I get my hands on it? Where can I try it? Well, you're in luck here, obviously. But we do have facilities, efficient exercise that we're based here in Austin, have a facility out in Los Angeles. We have body construction in Atlanta. We have one-to-one wellness center in Halifax, Nova Scotia. We have Juviva and Copenhagen-Denmark, the perfect workout in Southern California. There are places that implement this technology, but we wanna do better than that. We really wanna expedite and broaden our reach, if you will. And so we've developed this technology to help us do that. Again, specifically with the Omni, being available for the home market, we feel like it is going to strongly expedite that. I'll use an example that when I had the Omni that now Anthony has at his home, he stole it from me. But there's nothing more efficient than that. You have a phenomenal tool right in your living room, office, bedroom, wherever you put it. Home gym, if you're lucky enough. And you work out whenever you want. You spend your 10 minutes doing it. And then you get along with your life. Again, we're trying to empower people to be able to do things that they want to do better, whether it's physical activities, give them a stronger engine, or whether it just be, again, relationships, business ventures, whatever, so that they don't have to spend hours a week trying to work out. Again, the best way to really understand it, roll up your sleeves, get on it, get your hands dirty and give it a test drive. Just like a Ferrari, you might buy one at sight unseen, but you probably wanna give it a test drive. Same thing here. You have to really get on it to understand it, but we hope to be able to accomplish today that there's enough visuals, especially for the people that aren't going to experience it, enough visuals and communication that we can give you, that you'll better understand what adaptive resistance exercise means, how it feels, and how it could be beneficial to your particular walk. How does it work? Again, adaptive resistance exercise adapts to the user, not a gravity-based system. Most of us are familiar with a gravity-based system. Again, the reason I choose not to use weight training or strength training, because it's a resistance training. We're giving you a said resistance, and again, I often use the analogy of man versus machine. This thing's always gonna beat you. That's okay. That's really okay. Accept that psychologically and know, yeah, this machine's always gonna beat me, but we have software to track how well you did. Again, the system works and responds to you and we can see how well you did against it. Again, it kind of takes away some of those and makes almost obsolete some of those pursuits of perfect cams. I know Keith has used the analogy of bands and chains that were perfectly designed throughout a range of motion. Again, a bench press. Most guys know what that exercise is. You're going to have to select a resistance where you can continually get it off that weak link off your chest. But what you're doing is you're cheating yourself in my opinion of the potential that you have in strength, hypertrophy, all the things that you want out of resistance training, specifically on the negative. When you're lowering the weight, you can usually lower about 40% more weight. Well, in a regular gravity-based system, unless you got a couple strong training partners, you're not gonna really be able to pull that off very regularly. Nor is it always safe. Sometimes, let's say you can lower 500 pounds. Maybe you can do that twice, but on that third, fourth, fifth rep, however many you're going for, it's gonna slam your chest. Again, not very safe. So here, the system adapts to whatever you're putting out. Doesn't really matter how weak or feeble you are or how strong you are. Again, you can go from passive resistance, which is basically stretching all the way to heavy, heavy, centric loading, depending on what your goals are and what's needed. Again, I think that we get asked questions about it, even from what I would call very intelligent people in the business. I'll talk with them for 20, 30 minutes, and they'll ask a question that I'm like, wow, they don't get it. It's nothing against them. It's just with the technology, they're not really understanding. They'll still ask a question like, well, how much resistance do you put on it? The thing doesn't have a predetermined amount of resistance. It's going to measure what you're outputting. And again, we're here to say that, yeah, there are other ways to do it, but if you experience this, you'll kind of understand, wow, I'm kind of cheating myself, or at least that's how I feel. When I get on a normal machine, I have to do it from time to time. It just feels like, wow, specifically on the negative, I'm cheating myself. I know I could do a lot more, but I don't have access to it for whatever reason. So you experience a difference and you feel the difference than you know what we're talking about. I want to bring up Keith the Beast over here. I think the best way to show you, without shy of you getting your hands on it, is to really kind of walk through, if you will, kind of what's happening. We'll kind of narrate a little bit here and allow us to kind of interact with the software that'll be on the screen there. Keith, it will be doing, in this case, a pull down. Pull down's kind of like a chining up motion, fairly simple exercise and fairly easy to kind of understand what's going on here. You ready? Here's Keith, yeah. I feel small all of a sudden. Yeah, we'll do just pull down. I think because we just have one, we'll probably just do, yeah. Got to treat him like a client. Do the belts for him? Oh, is it stuck through there? There you go. Okay, so what I want to show you, we have someone manning the software, so just bear with us as we do this. We'll create a profile for Keith. This is almost like he's never done it. We know this guy's done it, but so enter 1110, we usually just do a birth date. Don't have to do that, but so we'll enter in 1110 and create a profile form. We'll enter 1110 and then create user profile. And Keith, again, all these steps just necessary to have the data saved, software tracks your progress. We've got 1110. Do you see the fricking key? And then we can accept that. We'll punish this guy. I think he makes himself lighter. We'll go ahead and hit custom at the bottom there and we'll hit pull down. There we go. And we'll just let it sit there for a second. So I just want to describe a little bit of what we're doing. Again, showing that the system adapts and responds to the person and the user here. I'm just gonna have Keith actually do a couple of static exercises. This is no movement at all. Some people find it to be a preferred training method. We find it kind of boring, but you can do it, especially in rehab environments. And again, there's research to show at certain times to do static training. Again, I'm not here to, I'm kind of trying to stay protocol agnostic as much as possible, but just to show you what the system does. Go ahead and hit begin here. And then we don't even have to hit start. Yeah, we do. Go ahead and Keith, we'll go and get ready here. We'll do about a 10 second static here. Two, one and pull. So look, so he's making the force gauge go up here. We can see it, keep with it Keith. Read through it, stay with it. Three, two, one. Now hit stop for us please. And again, system didn't move, but it's responding to what it's doing. And we're seeing again what it is. Now that you're ramped up a little bit, I want you to try to beat that one. We go ahead and hit next here. Go back to pull down. I wanna show you a couple of things with it and hit begin. Now I want you to really go again all out, try to beat that and hit start one, two, one and go for it. Drive it, drive it. There we go, keep with it, keep with it, keep with a little bit longer, pull harder, drop those shoulders, squeeze it. Three, two, one and then stop it there. Okay, so he beat his max. We have some numbers to work with here. Again, I'm just getting this guy warmed up. And so trust me, trust me, he's a beast. He can keep on going and yeah. So go ahead and hit next and then we'll go back to pull down one more time, thanks. So there's a couple of different ways that we can do this. And what we'll do is we'll kind of work within this green zone. I hope you can kind of see that, but again, within that kind of shadowy green zone, we'll do a couple of repetitions. It's just a goal for Keith to kind of stay within. What that is is that's his max with 40% below it. It's an ambitious goal on a positive. It's not so much on the negative. And what we'll do is we'll walk him through a couple repetitions here. Again, working through that zone there. Okay, you can go ahead and hit start there and be ready in three, two. We'll get a couple reps here and drive it. Good, the core tight. So he's trying to stay within that green zone. Two, one and again. Now hold onto it, hold onto it, stay with it. Again, all out effort there. Breathe through, hold it out. That's it, that's it. Good, good. On the negative, see how much further and how much stronger he is. There's no bracing here. Two, one, let's stick with it. Breathe, drive. Keep the core tight. On the positive again, that was his static max. He's staying close to that green zone. Two, one, one more negative, Keith. And hold it out, hold it out. Keep with it core tight. Good, stay with it. Break that machine, keep going, keep going, keep going. A little bit longer, a little bit longer, a little bit longer. Three, two, one, let's take a breather. If you hit stop for us there, that was awesome. And again, you can see how on the negative or the eccentric portion of the repetition, he's much stronger and the point proven there that if you were doing a chinning up motion, how much stronger you are as you let yourself down. But we're in gravity-based system. We're confined by gravity and what we can actually get ourselves up to the chin bar with. Or it becomes, you know, you've got these wagon wheels hanging between your legs and you're trying to climb up there. I mean, I've done it. Still do it sometimes if I have to. But anyway, again, the point being is that you have the strength and the capacity on your negative, as you saw with Keith. I mean, between his static max at four, whatever that was, you've got his 11.22 on the force pounds on the way back up on the negative. So again, you've got some potential there. Now what we prefer in most of our clients kind of cling to is what we call a hyper repetition. I think this is something that Arthur Jones kind of aspired to knowing that if you had a safe way to maximally load the positive followed by a maximal load on the negative, this might be the most efficient way to do it. Safety does come into mind with other systems because again, what does that load on rep one versus rep three or four, however many you're doing? You're gonna fatigue. So how do you adapt as you fatigue? Well, again, the system kind of perfectly aligns with that. So what I'm gonna have Keith do is kind of again, what most of us eddy fishing exercise take clients through what we call hyper repetitions. Again, maximal positive, maximal negative. In this case, as he's pulling down, that's the positive, as it's going back up, it's the negative. You're warmed up and ready. Hold on one second. We'll go ahead and hit next. Go back to pull down. We're just sticking with one exercise for demonstration purposes. Go ahead and hit begin and start there. Two, one, drive. We're gonna do three all out reps, keep pulling. So now his green zone's way up there from that max. Two, one, okay. Now resist, resist. Keep pulling. Yank those handles off, Keith, right here. Dig it, dig it, dig it. Three, keep pulling. Two, one, we'll do a little rest pause here. Give you a break. Three, two, and go again. We'll lay into it. Abs are tight, draw those shoulders down. Good. Continue to pull into it. Two, one, keep a good grip. I want you to resist it. Stay after it, stay after it. Good, keep breathing, keep pulling. Fight it. Three, two, one. I want you to rest here. You can see a little fatigue setting in. That's good. He is human. Three, two, one, and go. Stay with it, stay with it. Continue to pull. You're gonna tell yourself abs tight. Drive those shoulders down. Good, keep squeezing, keep squeezing it. Two, one, all right, last negative, last negative. All out effort, all out effort. Keep pulling, keep pulling through the fatigue. Try to put the brakes on that. There you go. Three, two, one, and relax. Good job, good job. Give him a hand, give him a hand. So again, with the demonstration purposes, and you can hit next, if you don't mind there. We just did pull down. You can hit finish, and once we're on the finish, he's all warmed up. He's ready to roll. He wants to do more, I know. But again, we can kind of track again this all pull down here, but we can track what we did. Total amount of work, which is just a function of time, essentially. And then we have his previous total works. You can also track maxes, if that's your particular fancy. You can also track just about any data point, really, that you wanna pull out, that you find most applicable, most valuable. What we really find is that the total work over said amount of time kind of dictates the intensity. That's what we really look at. And I really think that people will start to understand that people will start to grasp it. We're doing our best to, again, try to make these as available as possible. And there's loads of potential with the software. We get a lot of questions about the software, too. We had our intent to design it to make it very functional, stable, useful, in the real-time environment. But I mean, these days with cloud-based storage, I mean, you can get all this data up there and do a lot of things with it. Again, broadening our reach, knowing what people are doing all across the world and all across the country. So we're in development there to be able to continue to develop that software. But I guess that's really about it. I wanted to open up, again, I opened with us being filters for health and fitness know-how. I wanna open up the stage to Skyler, Keith, and myself. We're gonna feel like our early versions of EETV here, I think, because we've got one mic and we're gonna be all huddled together here. But ask, address, anybody will all kind of comment as we go. Let me stand in the middle is what they're saying. Okay. Yeah, my question was related to this particular piece of equipment. One of the advantages of being able to go to a gym is the fact that you can do most exercises by yourself. So how does that work with this particular piece of equipment of being able to do things on your own? Yeah, good question. Last year at the unveiling of the Omni, I believe Keith used the wireless self-controlled handles. So all of our machines, and sorry, they're in the back, I didn't break them out right now. But we did the practitioner or trainer-controlled remote this time, and that's what we do at efficient exercise or if someone, again, he knows what he's doing, but you get my point. But we have wireless controllers. There's this thumb controller to go on the, every time you press the right, you've got the positive, you've got the negative. So yeah, so that's how you control it on your own. And just didn't, you didn't really ask this, but there is, I mean, this thing is pretty versatile. I don't know how many exercises it does exactly. A couple dozen at least. So when you said you can do everything, well, from belt squat to deadlifts, to any angle of press, to any angle of pull, again, when we wrap up, and we'll show you some more of that, and everyone can kind of get their hands on it and try some things out, so. How would you differ this from those air-compressed workout machines? The arc strength? Yeah, yeah, yeah, sweet, I got the, so the GMI first worked out, it's Kaiser equipment, okay, that air-compressed type stuff. So what that does is it, through pneumatic resistance, it has this very steep resistance curve that the further out you go, the more resistance you're gonna get. That doesn't, you know, when you talk about, Mark was talking earlier about biomechanical tracking, I'll use the lat, for instance, the strongest point for your wings here is actually in the middle, is in the middle. But if you were to do a pull-down type exercise with the Kaiser, you go past that point, it keeps getting heavier, it keeps getting heavier, while the two prime movers, the biceps and your upper back, are getting weaker. And if you actually watched when Keith was working, through about this range, he was strongest, but as he neared the end or closest to his body, that needle started drastically dropping off. So that's the difference, is that it's indiscriminate to how strong you actually are, whereas this is whatever you're gonna pull, whatever you're capable of at any of those points, you can exert, you're not, nothing is hindering you from working as hard as possible in spite of the fact that you might not be as strong as you are at your strongest position. Make sense? Okay. It perfectly matches the strength curve perfectly because it's essentially mirroring back the force that you're putting into the machine, if that makes sense. So I'm limited, I was limited in the pull-down here, but the machine matched me. So I'm maxed out here, and I'm maxed out where I should max out, and I'm maxed out here and here and here and all the way up through. That's why three repetitions on this, I'm pretty, I'm still kind of, still winded. I mean, it taxes you. And that's why, you know, again, you can, you can dedic, if you feel that working at a certain percentage of your one rep max, which is kind of traditional or not, to me it's not as applicable, but if you feel that that's what you wanna do, you still can do that here, just dictate your zone of what you wanna work in. You can also work to a percentage of in-road. Again, it does make, in my opinion, some of these traditional methods of monitoring fatigue, a little moot, but you still can work in a particular zone of a one rep max, or I'm gonna work until I in-road this much, so there's a lot of ways that you can use it. I guess this is for all of you, but maybe primarily Skyler. Orhever was the biggest biomechanical geek. Would it be fair to say that this machine would be, would be in his capable of working almost every muscle in the human body? Or everything major and just about everything in the absolute sense, is that true? That's absolutely the case. I mean, you gotta understand too that there's a function of your body called irradiation, and so that you can test this on yourself that if you make a fist in all the muscles in your forearms that help to facilitate that and the bit of muscle here in your thumb, they contract, they go to work. You continue to make a tighter white knuckle fist. Eventually your pec gets tight. Eventually you recruit all the way up to with the intent of what you're trying to do, this needs further stabilization. So the bicep and the tricep and some of the extra shunting muscle tissue in the elbow go to work, and then your shoulder supports these and then this is supported by your chest. And so when you are hitting those max negatives, or max anything, the hyper reps, you get a huge irradiating effect of the entire body contracting to help you facilitate the effort you're demanding. One follow-up question then, relating back to what I just asked. I understand that now that you say it. However, my original question was more about movements. A lot of people here aren't familiar with the machine and what it can do. They just have a pull down. So Mark said a few dozen, but are those a few dozen, say 30 plus, are those going to encompass everything you're gonna wanna do and need to do to train your entire body? Yes, yes, yes they will. And then you can even get into exercises that have a low degree of bang for your buck, but they provide you with a certain amount of psychological novelty, right? I mean, that's the guys could be progressing on a dip for ages and it's working the chest and the shoulders and the triceps. They go, I'm tired of this. I wanna try something else. It's not because they aren't progressing. It's because they're bored. So they'll pick something else that doesn't necessarily actually work those tissues in a congruent manner, but it's novelty again and they're getting excited for the workout. So if you think about also all the movements you do in the gym, they're on very limited planes. Frontal, sagittal, transverse, and this will cover all of those planes. So I mean, we've marked a number of exercises, but you can come up with any of the goofy bro science we're gonna do our tricep extensions under our leg or whatever they're coming up with to hit the short head of the tricep at the medial, epicondyle, you know, well, you could do that. And you know, at least it's in your own home. So nobody sees you looking like a dummy in the gym. And yeah, I mean, and we usually program around kind of three primary movers or movements and functions of the body with some type of lower body driving movement, some type of upper body pulling movement, some type of upper body pressing movement. That just about covers every muscle in the human body when done well. Again, you know, abs are made in the kitchen, not in the gym. So we, again, the way that we program is pretty simplistic. Again, we're not trying to overcomplicate it. We're trying to make it a little simpler with what you need to think about in the gym, yeah. I have two questions. Firstly, I'm curious about, because you're not on a limited plane and you're going at your maximum, is there any concern about safety if you're wildly gesticulating around? And the second question, you kind of touched on this when we were talking about how a lot of the ways to measure, traditional ways to measure how much effort you should put in are gone, but in traditional high-intensity training, one of the ways is you go till failure. And so what would you recommend as to a point to stop? Sure. I can touch on the failure, the idea about failure. It's a very, I've kind of blogged about this and talked about it, but what is failure, right? So studies have been done where someone can work a muscle to failure and that muscle can be stimulated electronically and still fire at a higher rate. So the muscle is not failing. There's an internal governor within your system that's actually keeping you from hurting your dumb ass, essentially. So it shuts you down, but it's more of a central governor system that's shutting you down. So the idea of going to failure is kind of arbitrary, but if you have indicators here, now you have something real that you can work against. I guess that's the best way. And failure was a crude indicator of a certain amount of inroad. You figured that you started with a weight that is some percentage lower than what you can maximally lift and when you can no longer lift it, your muscle had been inroded or fatigued to that degree. And with that green range, you could do that as well too. So in one of the ways I like to have a client do it is stay in that green range until they can't. And that's roughly the same thing. I'm not having them pull as hard as they can out of the gate. By the end, they have an enormous effort and then they can't keep it in that green range. They're done. That's into the set. That's failure in the context of what failure's original intent was to be. Now back to your first question. Up to a point, the harder you pull, the tighter your form becomes. Think about doing a bicep curl with 10 pounds versus say something like what would be a five rep max for you. With that lighter weight, you can move that guy all over the place. You can wing your elbow in and out and so on. When you get heavier, the form, the path of the motion will tighten up because mechanically that's the most efficient portion. And then when you get to the far end, it's sort of a bell curve. Then when you get to like one rep max territory, it becomes total body mechanics rather than specific joint and muscle mechanics to try and move that point from A to B. And then that becomes dangerous. That's deadlifting with the body like this because you're trying to actually shorten them. If you're like this, you've got a wide moment arm. If you go like this, the bar moves closer to your center of mass so it becomes slightly easier. Screw up your back, but you move that point from A to B. So we don't typically see that on this machine that if a person is coached correctly, that's not a problem. Their form's good. And you also don't find people, you don't see Granny all of a sudden firing her CNS to just recruit all these fast-twitch fibers and putting herself in danger. She doesn't know how to do that. This guy does, but he knows how to do it in good form. So again, it's all adaptive and relative to that person whereas you could on a deadlift, which can be a problematic exercise if you don't do it right, in a gravity-based system, you could put the wrong amount of weight on the bar and get hurt doing it. So. So again, the machine's not feeding you, loading you with resistance. You're having the amount of force you're developed mirrored back to you, essentially. Hey, what would you recommend for somebody who commonly gets inflamed joints after any sort of exercise? Are you eating in a paleo fashion, number one? I just started doing that recently, but it's been like two months of eating what I think as well and I still get inflamed joints pretty commonly. Yeah, most of the time. I mean, you're talking about inflammation. Markers don't drop like a rock. I mean, under most circumstances, the way people do it. And what I would suggest to you is that most of that's gonna be dietarily driven. The fact that the strength training sets it off is just indicative of the fact that you're pretty inflamed to begin with. Here's a good metaphor, because most people in the embark on a paleo diet don't, you know, an ancestral whole food, real food diet don't really do this, but they remove some of the things that they're psychologically comfortable with removing and they leave in a bunch of agents that are problematic, potentially problematic. Say you have 10 cats and you learn you are allergic to cats. Will getting rid of nine cats stop the cat allergy from happening? No, no, of course not, but you're doing that with your food. You've chosen the nine cats you don't like and kept the ones that you do that are potentially providing you with problems. You might find, and some people do, they have to remove every possible inflammatory agent. Dave could tell you a whole lot more about that. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, and you'll get that whole presentation tomorrow, but that's a general idea is like people go, oh yeah, this seems like it's at least problematic, but you know what? It might be the most problematic for you. And then the strength training just sets it off. I've never really been a big fan of machines and that's just how I've always been trained. And for the pull down, it just looked, like you said, it was very static. Does this thing, can this machine like incorporate like compound movements and stuff that really will hit like multiple muscle groups and stuff like that? You're gonna have to find your terms because a compound, that was a compound movement. Well, he just, okay. Yeah, no, tell me what you mean by a compound movement because by in the weight training world, any multi-joint movement, he was moving at the shoulder. He was a compound movement. Yeah, just the fact that he was sitting, I don't like any type of, if you're like sitting down, it's usually not, even with like, if you're doing an overhead press, I like the stand, even with that. And or just like a body weight, like kind of burpee movement or something like that. I like doing stuff that uses full body or a lot of it. Can this like achieve that or can it achieve that with little effort over like just a few exercises? Well, I mean, yes and no to your question. I mean, can you do a standing overhead press? Yes, and I think we might have a video of online of Keith on the Omni doing a standing overhead press. Burpee, no. I mean, and you said the word like a lot. You like doing that. Is that beneficial? Sorry, no. I mean, it's something you like to do. It's an outburst of your strength in what you like to do. That's not part of our core programming. So to say, we're not saying you shouldn't do it, but it's something that you like to do. Does that make sense? I'll give you an example. So I do, on the industrial version of this that we have in the studio that I work out, I do chins on that, right? But I also like to do free weight chins with what I've talked about, the wheels hanging between my legs, all of that. Just because I like it. I like that movement. I like that as well, but I can tell you that in-roading that I get on this type of stuff is a hundred times better than what I can do doing that movement. So it kind of depends on what is it that I'm trying to do today and how is that relative to my overall goal set? And Keith will probably admit, I mean, to a certain degree, he's addicted to certain forms of exercise. And that's not a bad addiction, but is that feeding another part of his, that's the performance end, if you will, and the psychological end? Yeah, people will say, well, don't you still lift real weight? Well, the answer for all of us is yes. And I'll speak for me personally. I mean, I probably dedicate the least amount of time to working out of the bunch. And most bang for my buck is here. Now, do I still go out and cycle sometimes or bike or run around and play with the kids? Yeah, I do, but again, it's cause I like to do it. Yeah, I mean, and ultimately your muscles are stupid. That's where the, you know, really your muscles don't know you're doing a pull down or chin up or whatever. They have one job and it is to contract and it's to do that on a very specific path. Your bicep connects onto your shoulder blade and it connects to your radial tuberosity on your forearm. And when your brain sends a message to fire, it bends the elbow. How it goes about doing that doesn't matter. It doesn't matter what you like. It doesn't matter that it's on the ARX. It doesn't matter it's a chin. All that matters is that this is contracting against the sufficient resistance. So that's, going back to that point, you like a lot of things. We all do different things within that. This is a tool in the box. And you're gonna find that some people don't have that interest like you do. And all they're looking at is, what can I get for the least amount of time? And to have other people, I mean, we have athletes, big time athletes who are more like, I like doing X, Y, and Z. But I know that I do X, Y, and Z better when I include this. And that's how we incorporated with them. Power lifters, bodybuilders, distance runners, sprint athletes. Because ultimately, if their glutes seem to get stronger, a belt squat on this is gonna make them stronger. Because that's what the glutes are facilitated in doing. It doesn't have to be a barbell squat. They just have to be taxed, recover stronger, do it again, repeat. So hey, I'd love to throw on some rage against the machine and knock out five sets of five chins heavily. I love that. But if I'm looking for time efficiency and super, super in-road, I can do two pops of three here, five minutes. I'm taxed. I mean, I'm done. No, you'll take three. Yeah, that's me. Where do I find one and how do I get it and what does it cost if you're willing to share that? Yeah, I mean, again, you can go to arcsfitarxfit.com and send an inquiry in and we'll get back to you. Again, we're in development right now looking at getting the omni-manufactured at another facility so that we can get it produced at more of a mass production rate so that the prices come down. We know the market dictates the pricing. So right now, again, I almost wanna slightly withhold the price just because we're in that pursuit of getting the price lower. That makes sense. Is it gonna matter where I live or what if I live like, what if I'm on YouTube and I live in Austria or something? Can I get it? Yeah, I mean, we literally do have these omnis around the world. I think, I don't know if you connected with a guy in London that has it when you were there. But anyway, so yeah, we ship them wherever. We haven't gone down to Australia yet, although we've had some inquiries, but yeah. Yeah, okay, I think we're all done then.