 Next question is from S-Powers 28. Are D-Load Weeks necessary? I think easier workouts, workouts that allow your body to recover are necessary. Do I think it's necessary to schedule D-Load Weeks? For some people, yes. For other people, no. Who would it be necessary for? For competitors, right? Yeah, or yeah, athletic competitors or bodybuilders, I would think this would apply, you know, the majority of people towards it. In terms of scheduling it, you know, to sort of give you that break and refresh to then, you know, repo. I never did this with most clients, because most clients naturally have D-Load Weeks. Yeah. Keeping a client consistent for three to six months and never missing a workout. That was a hard thing. That is extremely, in fact, I probably failed 95% of the time. The reality is they have vacation, they have busy lives, stuff happens for a week or whatever. So they naturally do it. The only clients or the only people that I ever had to do something like this with is the competitors. Somebody who actually could go years and not miss a workout. And those people tend to need these D-Load Weeks and it's highly beneficial for them. I let the other ones kind of naturally happen. Yeah, a scheduled D-Load Week is good if you're the kind of person that tends to, you know, oh, I know I'm supposed to go easier, but I'm gonna go hard. Like this would be good for me, right? Cause I know it's in my schedule. I have to do it and it'll force me to do it because my tendency is to not do it. My tendency is to push probably too hard or too often. But for most people, I don't think scheduling a D-Load Week is a big deal. But, you know, again, rephrasing the question, is it necessary to have workouts that give your body an opportunity to heal and recover? In other words, is it necessary to have easier workouts or lighter workouts? Yes, absolutely. And here's the thing. I think people believe that these easier workouts, or if you wanna label them D-Load Workouts, that's fine. I think people believe that D-Load Workouts or easier workouts pause your progress. Like, okay, I'm not gonna progress this week because I'm actually, studies actually show that oftentimes progress happens in a D-Load Week. So it's like they've been pushing, pushing, pushing, then they go easier workouts and then, boom, they get all this muscle growth or strength. I think, I mean, the ideal situation is that you can intuitively pick up on the signs and signals your body is sending you and be able to back off, you know, and be able to weave in and out and undulate the intensity, the volume, whatever it is necessary to get you to fully recover so you can keep progressing. And we have to be careful here because it's like the question is necessary. And so where I think we're addressing necessary but valuable, yes. I think they can be very valuable, especially for someone like Sal. I mean, we recently shared a study on the show where, you know, you had the two groups, one group trained consistently for 16 weeks, never took any days off versus a group that every third week took a whole week off. And at the end of the study, the group that took the week off was had progressed just as much as the group that never took any days off. So there's definitely tremendous, obviously, tremendous value. If you can do, what is it? Less work. Yeah, less work and get the same results as somebody who's doing more work than there's obviously there's value there. That's what that study points out. So, but I think our point is saying that most people naturally take days off, naturally deload because of just regular life things that happen. Now, if you're the hardcore, super consistent and high volume training type of person, then yeah, no, I think they're extremely valuable. And according to that study, you could get away with every month taking a few days or a week off of training and it would be beneficial for you. Now, do you guys have signs that you look out for for yourselves where you say, okay, this is happening, I need to go easy on my workouts? Is there something specific? Usually for me, I can sense whether or not, like I'm putting too much pressure in certain joints and like this. Yeah, so like I have pain right now is specifically that I'm dealing with my shoulder hips. And so I'm definitely still going through the movements but with a lot less intensity and bringing the volume down but I plan on kind of weaving in and out of that so that way I can allow them to recover. Is that from your workout video? Yeah, for the shoulder for sure. Yeah, I mean, I definitely push it a bit. Because you push that 120-something pound kettlebell. Yeah, that's the problem with like, you're talking me up a bit. I didn't want to like do just like my regular workouts so that was totally a performance workout. You know, like I, but so I paid for that a bit because it was outside of my normal intensity range but now it's just a matter of getting myself back to where I feel like my body's like at its optimal form. Yeah, I think for me, all the time now because of you assholes. Yeah, I was a much, I was a much better. You blame them everything. It is your fault. It's 100% your fault because before you guys, I never even, like I said, I never trained singles and doubles and triples. And I mean, I never cared about my max PR, none of that stuff ever. I was like, so I was so anti that. I used to talk shit about that all the time. It was not necessary. You can build an incredible, and because you know what I mean. Would you say when you're necking in the bedroom, she doesn't ask you how much you can bench? That's right, that's right. It was all show, no go. I wasn't about performance. I wasn't about how much I bench. I wanted to look good. And I was very sure of that's what my goal was and what I wanted to accomplish. And it wasn't necessary for me to push the boundaries as far as weight. Now we started hanging out together and now I'm paying attention to how much do I bench press? How much do I squat? How much do I deadlift? And now my fucking, my hips, my elbow, my shoulder always are talking to me because what ends up happening is I get in a little bit of a rhythm and I want to see what I can push and what I can do. And then my body reminds me that, you know, you should be training more like this. Some of those advanced age vitamins. Stretching your capacity, Adam, that's all. Help your, help your, yourself. It's true. I mean, I'm teasing about blaming it on you guys, but I really didn't suffer from a lot of that stuff until I, that is the one challenge with. You push performance hard too often for sure. Yeah. It's hard though because it is a, you know, a double-edged sword, right? Because there are tremendous benefits I've got since I've trained that way too. Of course. One of the things I love that I notice about my body today than just five, six years ago is because I've gotten so strong in some of these big compound lifts. Man, if I just, if I make, if I make sure I hit overhead press, squat, deadlift and bench, like once a week, it actually maintains my, my physique. I don't have as aesthetic as the competitive Adam does or what like that. But like I can maintain, I definitely can maintain where a A&PM worker will think that I look strong and fit. That's right. I remember saying that. That feels good. Yeah. You look strong. You look strong. You're like a jacked guy.