 Next question is from Hannah fit lift. Is it possible to get stronger while eating at maintenance totally? Of course strength is a skill. I've gotten stronger not added any muscle at all Just because I was able to fire better and just control the weight better and have better skill and technique with it Well, this is where a lot of the central nervous system doesn't come into conversation We've tried our best to kind of describe it which is hard to do To people but really like just going through that process of being able to recruit and intrinsically like produce more force creates a stronger Situation where you can now have access to more strength than you did before but Not necessarily you're not going to gain size Necessarily well, that's why I've always loved the analogy that Sal gave because I never heard it before We all got together which was the the speaker and amplifier analogy and I think it just works in so many examples It works here again if you are put if you're investing in your your amplifier to get more power to your speakers You don't necessarily need more calories or more strength You get better skill at a movement and you're increasing your amplifier. You're making your amp better the juice Yeah, so you don't necessarily need to have higher calorie to do that And or add a bunch more muscle in order to get a bigger amplifier for your muscles And I just that's why I love that analogy because that's an example in my opinion of the CNS here Is that you by practicing and getting the movement down really well? You are investing in a better stronger amplifier for your speakers I'll give you an example that completely illustrates what we're talking about if you take two groups of people And you already know what their maxes are nobody's gaining any extra muscle And then they go and test their maxes again, but you give half of them caffeine in the other half You will see a statistically significant, you know, maybe 5% or 3% increase in strength in the group that took caffeine Did the caffeine make them build more muscle? No caffeine is a CNS stimulant So it just got their CNS to fire Harder and they were stronger. Can you do this without taking supplements or chemicals? Yeah, you can train your CNS You know when they do studies on Olympic weight lifters Olympic lifters are They can they can summon something like 95% of their actual potential Mm-hmm, so you have a hundred and sixty pound Olympic Have you ever seen that because we've talked about this we've touted that before have you ever seen that compared to what the average person Average person is something like 40 to 50. Is it really that low? Yeah, I do not even come closer actualizing their potential in order for the average person to generate their true potential of strength They have to be under extreme Stress situations. This is like the story of the adrenaline or yeah, it sort of overrides a lot of the governing that's in place Yeah, I mean, I don't know if you guys have ever experienced that yourself where you're like you're in danger You're kids in danger and you do something and afterwards like like for me I definitely lift weights and stuff so I'm sure I'm higher on the on that range than then the average person But I by no means train like an Olympic lifter and I definitely don't train plyometrics and explosive power Call I do a little bit now because of Justin's influence didn't do in the past But I'll never forget my son my oldest now He was two at the time He was at the top of the stairs and he was saw me and he was just ready to jump off the top and I Leaped I grabbed the rail. I ripped it off the wall and leaped to the top of the stairs and caught him No way I could have done that naturally couldn't pay you I do the same thing my son was falling down it else. I pulled my hamstring really bad because it just boom I you know exploded and that's why your body doesn't let you do that It's got those governors But yeah, you could totally if you just get better at a lift you can lift more without gaining any muscle now Is that beneficial to building muscle? Yes, because as you lift better and you get stronger because you lift better Now you're able to apply more stress to the muscle and get more out of that exercise Well, this is why the advice that we give so often to people is just you know Look at your workouts to go to the work gym and just practice Just practice and get good at the movement because that in itself forget Adding weight to the bar and trying to sweat harder and increase intensity Just go practice getting good at the movement and watch the carry over you'll get you know There was a Soviet method of training that did that where they would take athletes and let's say the athlete could squat Let's say they could squat 315 for 20 reps for example They would have the person squat 315 for like 15 reps or 10 reps every day Even if they got stronger so 10 reps at one point kind of feels like oh, I could do another 10 But then the next few times like whoa, I feel like I could do 25 They kept them doing that for three months and then they would test their max and you'd see this huge boost and Strength and it was all because they were practicing Hey, if you enjoyed that clip you can find the full episode here or you can find other clips over here and be sure to subscribe