 Our next caller is Brian from New Hampshire. What's up, Brian? How can we help you? Hey, how's it going guys? First of all, I just want to say thanks for all the content you put out. You guys are awesome. Just nice to get that unbiased viewpoint and just you guys are willing to change your minds about anything. That's great. So I think I know some people do a little bit of background. I think that would help with my question, help you guys answer it. So I retired from Pro Hockey about a year and a half ago in March, 2020. And I've always been into like mobility. I do like the Kelly Starr and stuff. Nice. Pavel Satslain, just for like injury prevention, my whole career, been weightlifting since I was 10. I've been training for hypertrophy for the last like four months, just to kind of get a new fitness goal as opposed to like always doing performance stuff my whole life. So recently I got the job I work at now. It's this company we make stretch suits called Stale Liberty. But I'm trying to film a promo video where I'm doing a side split wearing one of the suits. I was wondering if like you guys think that those are conflicting goals. Like if I'm squatting twice a week, is that going to like hinder my progress? If I'm trying to do side splits? No, it's not. There's a common misconception that strength training reduces flexibility. It actually improves functional flexibility. Now, the key is to practice your splits. So you're just trying to get into the splits. So static stretching is going to get you there the fastest and daily practice of the static stretching. But no, it's not going to hinder or prevent you from being able to do any type of strip. What do you guys think though about him doing some specific exercises like a Cossack squats? Like I think somebody who is working towards doing like the splits, I think that would be a, and let's say he's squatting twice a week or whatever, I would actually pull like a traditional back squat out one day and then do something like Cossack squats in there and really try and stretch your capacity on the range of motion and flexibility in that movement. So you try to connect and create opportunities for strength out of that position. I think that would be smart or even isometrically trying to get a bit lower with that and really connect. So it's not just passive flexibility you're after, you can gain some kind of active control over it. But yeah, I mean, it's again, if that's your pursuit, it's not going to be a confliction as long as you're still trying to connect and make it a strength. And then also, what do you guys think about him starting and ending the workout with that, right? So if my goal is to get to this splits, I do my priming and mobility work and warm up to try and get to that place as far as close as I can. I do my strength training routine and then even at the end of the routine, I do it again. I work on that again. Yeah, no, I would I would do lots of static stretching at the end of the workout. I mean, if you're okay, so when you do this when you're doing this, this whatever this photo is performance, you're just going to sit in the side splits, right? Yeah. Yeah. So static stretching is going to get you to the fastest. You don't need to be able to move or get out of it very quickly. You just want to like combine it with being able to being like strong in that range of motion. I don't want to just sit like I could probably do that today if I sat in a stretch, you know, well, then what Adam said is ideal. I mean, then practice things like Cossack squats and side lunges and stuff like that to kind of work on that. And then when you do the static stretches and your side splits, when you get into that position, activate your inner thigh and outer thigh muscles. I mean, really, if you just turn them on when you're in that position, that'll help you connect with that that really wide range of motion. At curiosity, were you a goalie? No, I wasn't. Okay, I was a center. Okay, only reason why I'm asking is I know goalies have like tremendous flexibility and hockey. So what's this in your question about having a flat ass? We have to address this. Oh, no, it's a girlfriend kind of like six months after I retired kind of made a comment about it. And that was like, it just kind of hit home. I was like, I was back in the squad right the next day. That one cuts deep. Yeah, but yeah, do that. And you know what, do you have a Maps Prime Pro, Brian? I do not know. Okay, there's great stuff in Maps Prime Pro that'll help you develop more connection to greater ranges of motion. So we'll send that over to you. Okay, awesome. Yeah, I really appreciate it. No problem, man. Thanks for calling in. Yeah, thanks for having me on guys. His girlfriend's mean, huh? My girl tell me to if I mean, so I don't want like honest feedback. Yeah, but do you say that to you? Would you ever say that to your girl? He lost your ass. Yeah, we're pretty good. You would? Oh, yeah. No, I wouldn't say it directly like that. But I would definitely. Yeah, yeah, yeah, right. I don't know if I'd be like, Hey, honey, you're losing your ass on the relationship. Yeah, no, she's I mean, one of the things I love about her is that she she loves that about me is that I just I have no filter and have a really hard time. Keep it real. Yeah, bullshitting. So if she asked me, I'm gonna tell her the answer. You know, our buddy, Jordan Syat is working on this right now. Have you guys I don't know how quick how often you guys click over and glute gains? No, on splits. Oh, yeah, he's on and I should probably look more into exactly what the reason behind or whatever. But I saw him post maybe I don't know, I want to say three weeks ago or so that he and he showed a video of like how far he could get right now, which was terrible. And then he's showing his progress. So maybe also check into that, you know, so I don't know, you know, George, if you are or this is who's what's like one of us needs to do it. It's Adam. So Brian, once you check out our buddy, Jordan Syat, I think it's Syat Fitness is what his is his handle is. And Jordan's a pretty smart trainer himself. And I think he's actually working on that. So maybe follow his journey. Yeah, the splits were cool for a second. Then remember Van Dam, he would like bust them out. I never got that. Like, like, that's his flex, you know, like, Oh, hey, I can go on a countertop like this. Yeah. Yeah. But how hard you kick, bro? Well, I think that I think the flex on that was that he could do that. And he was buff. Yeah. I don't want to give him good shape and handsome. Yeah. And he can also do a 360 round kick with the we'd have to get a girl's opinion on that. Like, does that do something for you? I don't know. I think anything he did at that time would have done something for us. Yeah. Yeah. Check me out.