 Question is from Crystal Felice. What is your opinion on incorporating amrap and emom sets into your daily workout? You know, it's I like ding dong Looking crossfit all their acronyms, dude. It's so funny So f9 and rap and rap stands for as many reps as possible. What's emom again? Every minute minute on the minute every minute on the minute you do a rap. So kind of Tabata. Yes. Yeah, that's that's like a hit So here's here's my opinion on on both those things and they both kind of fall in the similar category It's a terrible idea into your daily workouts Do I think there's some value in throwing a I've done an amrap before I would tell let's say here this last year That's another word for failure. Isn't it? Yeah, right? Yeah, there's many reps as you can do in a set right so So how many times have I trained a set where I did as many as possible till I absolutely completely went to exhaustion or failure? I can tell you in this last year that that was less than 10 times probably less than five times So somewhere probably between five and 10 total times in all of my workouts Have I done this? So Yeah, I think there's some value of intermittent. Do I do it? Yes intermittently? I would do it Would I program it into a program every week or every day? Fuck no, no, it's like an interrupter. Yes. It's great You know, but I think the the rock-studying bebop version is a lot better These just just annoys me with these acronyms, but yeah, I think that Again, like what's what's your desired outcome? Like what what's your focus as your focus on strength as your focus on building muscle? Like, you know, this is another one of those things that's going to sort of compete And so if you look at it as like something that's going to compete towards your progress towards, you know Just specifically building muscle or specifically building strength You know, it's going to add an element of endurance that now your body's going to compete You know amongst those that's it. These are these are intensity These are tools to radically increase the intensity Of your workout and these aren't the only tools There's forced reps and partial reps and heavy negatives and there's all kinds of different techniques to getting your to pushing your body To a very very high level. We need to we need to explain the studies that support this stuff Because this is this is where these people I think get the idea that it's good because they they'll take a study to support Training to failure and the benefits of it for muscle building And what you're not doing is you're not looking at the whole picture. You're right short term You know if you compare one group to another group and one group is super super intense and the other one's less intense If especially if it's a short-term study, you're going to see that the intensity factor is going to give people some better results But if you extended that study and the people continue to train with that level of intensity You would start to see their progress stop and maybe even reverse the tortoise in the hair So tortoise in the hair the tortoise will eventually pass the hair. I mean you come out the gates Yes in a six-week study If you train with you know training to failure every workout for six weeks and you compare that to another group That stops their exercises two reps short of failure Every for every week for six weeks That ones that went to failure would show that they gained more muscle or they burned more body fat But over the course of a year or two years or a long actual study I guarantee you the tortoise would actually end up passing the hair in this situation. And so But is there value then because there are other tools. Yes, you gotta know you gotta know when to use them Right, you know, you can't you're not going to always use your sledgehammer You know and your tool belt it's like, you know walk into a house and you're going to see oh, there's a scooter right there Oh time for the sledgehammer. Oh, fuck. I broke the wall, you know, that's kind of what's happening with these tools Now I know why they're so popular. It's because when fitness enthusiasts or influencers Posts about their workout. Yeah, it looks cooler. Yeah, I'm not gonna post about my regular, you know workout That's not exciting unless you're like Matthews He does a great job every regular workout Casted regular You know what though? That's a good point. He posts the real shit. No, it's perfect a teaser. But that is that's the truth though That is that is I appreciate it. I'm like, that's so boring. But I love it. That's how we built his physique You know I'm saying but it's boring. So when you're gonna post like if I post the deadlift I'm not going to be like, oh today's workout was you know, 315 for Six reps four sets, you know four sets of it and you know, I got a nice squeeze It's like boring I'm going to put like the pr that I did or I went to complete failure and whatever because you're kind of bragging But then people get the the notion it's a little distorted that Oh, that's the way I need to work out all the time. It's not in fact I'll say this the advanced intensity techniques should be reserved for people who've been consistent with their workouts And who are relatively advanced for at least six months to a year if you haven't worked out consistently You know on a regular basis for six months to 12 months. Yeah, don't do any of this shit. There's no need Yeah, leave it out of your workout You know that goes for all the crazy shit Yeah, like all the the the pyramiding and the cluster setting and the yeah the drop setting and the circuit shit like everything Like it's there's so many other big rocks to accomplish in your your fitness journey that you should be addressing and getting good at And practicing and learning first Before you before you start adding stuff and most certainly Because here's the thing if you're even if you're somebody who's within six months if you did this once Not a big deal. I'm fine. In fact, probably has some value, but you doing this in every workout Programming it or every week. No ridiculous. It's not a good idea. Nope