 Hey everybody, I'm Lance Goyki. Today I wanna discuss probably the question I get asked the most, maybe next to how should I breathe during this? The question I get asked the most is should I, when I take my, you know, if I have squats and I've got five by five to go through, should I try to do the same weight the whole time or should I try to work up in weight as I go, as I get, you know, warmer and more accustomed to doing the exercise? This is one of those, I really don't care exercise prescriptions. The biggest thing that you should focus on is are you pushing yourself hard enough? If you're not pushing yourself hard enough because you get really, really tired if you try to hang on to that weight the whole time and you just don't wanna do anymore, then stop doing that, then, you know, work up in weight and try to peak a little bit higher. But in general, I'm gonna get the biggest strength gains, the biggest hypertrophy gains, the biggest, you know, conditioning gains, whatever it is, by pushing my body to the limit because that's how my body realizes, okay, well, I need to be able to do more than what I was able to do today because that was really uncomfortable. Now, other prescriptions, so if five by five is like the greatest example of this, if you're doing five by five for the purposes of hypertrophy, then I would just say pick whichever one you like and maybe a simpler way to do it is to just pick a weight and try to do it for five sets of five. If you get five sets of five, then next time go up 5% and try that again. If you get five, five, five, four, three, then you can say, okay, next time I'm gonna try to get five by five. And that makes the hypertrophy stimulus a very controlled and you can, you know, distinctly measure your progress on that lift. If I'm doing five by five for purposes of getting stronger though, then I might wanna taper it up so that I can gradually increase the load so that I can have some sets at a higher weight requiring more force. Yeah, I mean, because that's the goal of your strength work is to increase that force output. So think about it that way. If you're really concerned about it and you don't really have a goal, then stop being concerned about it. If you are working for strength gains, try to work up in weight. And if you're working for hypertrophy gains, try both and see which one you think you do better with.