 Next question is from Donovan Kirkpatrick. Do I have to hit abs directly for every full-body workout? Or can I rely on compound lifts like dead lifts and squats to work the core and just work out my abs directly once a week? Well, you're an adult. You can do whatever you want. Can I please? Yeah, you can't literally you can do whatever you want, but you know, okay, look Here's the thing with with dead lifts and squats This is where the confusion comes from when people are like it works your core And then they have studies that show that when you squat and dead lift that there's all this, you know muscle activation in the core Okay, that's true Your core is very active when you're doing a heavy exercise that's standing because your core has to Stabilize your body, but there's also Specificity and how muscles Activate and work and how their strength is expressed. Okay, so if your core gets really really good at Stabilizing you for dead lifts and squats. That's probably gonna come from dead lifts and squats But your core might not be strong moving through full ranges of motion like a full sit-up or a crunch It's totally different now. There's some carryover So you'll be better than somebody who does nothing at all, but you're not developing the muscle through you're just highlighting one function Isometrics. Yeah, that's it. It's just like imagine if you only did isometrics for your biceps, right only did isometrics for your chest Like what's great and and why there's studies and why people why this is even a conversation is because There is a lot to support. There's a lot of value in that That's one of the great benefits of heavy deadlifting and heavy squatting is it's incredible for isometrics for your abs To stabilize your core with two three four hundred pounds on your back takes a lot of isolation strength But there's there's two other parts there There's the concentric and eccentric portion of the exercise that's completely being neglected So it'd be like only doing isometrics for all the other parts of your body and Neglecting the centric and concentric portion of every other exercise. Yeah, it's not that it's it's bad It's not that it doesn't get some work your abs are getting some work And it's I tell you what it's better than nothing the guy who you're the guy or girl who squats heavy and deadlifts heavy is Better off than someone who does no exercise for their abs, right? So that person is better off now, but you are missing out on two other parts that are extremely beneficial Yeah, this myth or I don't want to say myth But this idea really came from the the power lifter segment of the the lifting community because they didn't want to do it They don't want to do it. They don't care. Typically. They don't have abs anyway, or they're not supposed to have abs You know when you're a power lifter, you're not getting judged on how you look It's about how much weight you can lift so a lot of them don't give a shit about you know Looking really great in the midsection. It's like how much can I lift so then it became well? Why do I need to work my abs anyway? Like who cares? I'm just you know, I'm squatting. I'm just stabilizing. I'm good at it It's all good. Why work my abs to begin with you still you also hear power to say things like why do I need to work my calves? Why do I need to work biceps? Sometimes you'll hear strength athletes say, you know, if you train muscles Fully it's better than you if you don't that's all so it's a little bit It's gonna be better if you train it fully than if you don't but is it are you gonna be okay? If you only hit your abs, you know, you know once a week. Yeah, you'll probably be fine. It's not a big deal They're just not gonna be as developed or you're not gonna have is is you know full development of the strength curve and all the strength You know factors with your abs just not gonna be as good. That's all