 Next question is from hoop golf 89. Does lifting reduce flexibility? Nope. No This is like up there with one of those bad myths. Yeah sticks around. No We addressed that recently. Yeah, actually they did they actually now have studying athletes. Okay, so first off we have to define flexibility. When we talk about flexibility on the show, typically what we're referring to is functional flexibility. So that means your range of motion that you actually have control and strength over not passive flexibility like my 10 month old son. I could put him in the splits, but he's got no stability in it. Very unstable is that strength in it, right? It doesn't count if you have lots of range of motion with no strength. In fact, that's actually instability that'll increase risk of injury. So what you're looking for is being able to move through ranges of motion, but also have strength in those ranges of motion and full range of motion resistance training. It does exactly that. Like if you do full good controlled squats, you now have strength in that full range of motion. If you do full range of motion flies or rows or pull ups, whatever range of motion you train in, you have strength in it and you can increase that range of motion and studies now support. I imagine that sort of the caveat though is the full range of motion workout as opposed to what you might see sometimes if you're like in a body building, sort of a set where we're just going half reps or we're just trying to focus on muscle tension and you're building certain patterns of movement that your body now is prioritizing and then trying to take that sort of program and then apply it to something sports related. You've seen sort of a disconnect there by the way that you've trained. The way that you train does in fact impact using it functionally, but that would happen over quite a substantial amount of time. In terms of flexibility itself, though, if you're doing full range of motion, having strength in that range of motion, it increases that flexibility, but strength in that flexibility, which is... You have to compare apples to apples too, right? Because what you're saying is absolutely true, Justin, but here's what the problem. People will compare a well-developed muscular person who trains without full range of motion, right? They train like a bodybuilder and then they'll compare them to like an athlete or somebody that trains in full range of motion and be like, look, that bodybuilder is so tight and immobile. That's not a good comparison. That's not fair. You want to compare the bodybuilder to someone who's inactive. Do they have greater range of motion and greater flexibility? Absolutely. Now, the problem is, like Justin said, you get really strong in a short range of motion. Now you can generate a lot of force in a particular range of motion. You move outside of that and you don't have a lot of strength in that. It's problematic at that point. Oh, yeah. It could create big problems. If I can generate a thousand pounds of force going straight ahead, but to the side, it's a hundred pounds of force and I move forward real fast, but then all of a sudden I got to cut. That could cause some problems. You've seen this, though, too. There was a movement, especially in baseball, where it's like you didn't want to get your chest or your arms too big because it felt like it would restricted the mechanics, which was totally false. Unless you're like Mark Maguire. Yeah, exactly. Look, Bo Jackson, look at like these incredible like physiques that started to emerge in how amazing their performance was. It wasn't the muscle that was bound. That wasn't the factor. It was just the way they were training. Yeah. And to that note, if your arms get bigger and your legs get better, you might have to change your technique a little bit. Exactly. Like, I know in jujitsu, you know, there's a lot of positions where you like, for example, chokes, right? Rear naked choke. Well, if your forearms and arms are big, it might be harder to get underneath someone's chin to do a choke. Or if you have really big massive legs, a triangle choke might be a little bit more difficult, but there's ways you can do variations, stuff like that. So for athletes listening, if you do build size, make sure you practice your technique still because otherwise you're in a new body and your old technique now is hard to carry over.