 Next question is from Brady Sims 3. When should you use and not use a lifting belt? Well, first of all, it's up to you. So you can use one or not. Not that big of a deal, but I'll put these people in the category of people that probably should use a lifting belt. Number one, people who compete in strength events that use lifting belts. So like if you're a power lifter or a strongman in your event, allows you to use a weight lifting belt, power lifters for sure. They always wear belts or it's allowed in competition. Then you're going to want to wear a belt when you lift because there's a technique and a skill to using a belt. You don't just put one on and then voila, you feel stronger and more stable. There's actually a skill and technique to learning how to use one properly and how to maximize the leverage and the stability that a belt provides. The other person is the person that likes to have fun with their lifts and wants to learn the difference between lifting with a belt and not with a belt. Most people probably, you probably never need to pick up a belt. It probably doesn't really make a big difference. I use a belt because years ago, I trained with one and I had fun with it. Until this day, I have fun using a belt, especially if I'm going really heavy. But truth be told, I probably would be better off not using a belt and just getting my core to be really good and stable and strong without a belt because it's a totally different muscle recruitment pattern. Stabilizing without a belt is different than stabilizing with a belt. Yeah, I would also throw in there, if you're in a competitive athletic environment, mainly because a lot of times, like, and this is my experience and a lot of other athletes' experience when you're working out with the team and you're in the gym and everybody's in there together, it's just like, you're always trying to do more. You're trying to load more. You're trying to really push yourself to the extremes and almost to the point where you come to max load and you're doing PRs all the time. So to have that as an extra insurance, I could see that being valuable in that environment. But for your average person, for me, I like to go for a long time without it. You can experiment, have fun with it and whatnot. But to find out what you can truly stabilize and what you can truly control means that you actually own that weight. And that's just something I've always stuck with because my body is going to give me the indication whether or not I don't feel like I can brace that amount of weight properly. So that's an indication to me that I need to go down a bit in load. Do you guys remember the last time you used a belt? It's a long time ago. I used one at least once a week. Oh, okay. You're that? Oh, you're more than me then. I thought you were less actually. I went off for a while and then, I mean, I have fun with it. Again, I learned, remember the story I talked about, those power lifters that taught me how to squat and deadlift. They also taught me how to use a belt. And so since I was 16, I've been using a belt on and off. In fact, I had the old belt I wore when I was 16, up until about six years ago. And I gave it to one of my clients when I stopped personal training. But to me, there's a different feel around it, maybe some nostalgia. But I mean, training clients, I had Doug wear one sometimes. I had another guy wear one sometimes. But I never had anybody else wear a belt. Yeah, that's interesting. I didn't know you were using it even that much because I know you're obviously, you don't talk about using it that often. I would say I was probably, I thought I was using it the most. I mean, I haven't used it in months just because it's where I'm at right now in my lifting. Where I saw the most value is like, when I was competing and, you know, I would just, I was doing so much volume that my low back a lot of times would be fried. And then I'm getting ready to go do some exercise and I just want to take it out of it. I don't want, I don't want my low back to be the first thing to get fatigued and give out. I'd trained myself to use a belt long enough. And so me being able to stabilize and have some external existence with that made it nice when I was lifting. Similar to how I use straps. Straps are the same way too. I just didn't, I didn't see a lot of value in using them for overall strength and what like what Justin like tins the train for. Doesn't make sense to me for somebody like that unless you're competing. But when you're sculpting and you're a bodybuilder and you're trying to isolate parts of the body all the time, to me, I understand where someone like that uses tools like that more frequently than the average person. Otherwise, it can end up being a crutch and the people that tend to gravitate towards using a belt think that they because they have low back issues or problems that they should use a belt and that's the safer way to go when in reality that person would probably be better off not using a belt. Yeah, that makes a lot of sense actually because you know in that, in that frame of thought there's a lot of benches and positions and things that they specifically use to give you relief from fatigue so you can just isolate the muscles. So to me that seems like a natural fit. Bodybuilders wear belts differently than powerlifters do too. So powerlifters will put on a belt heavy lifts. Bodybuilders put on a belt because they think it shrinks their waist and so you'll see them wearing a belt. Like all day long. Yes, they're hitting arms and they'll wear a belt. They're hitting chest and they wear a belt. But you know bodybuilding is an aesthetic sport so everything revolves around aesthetic and especially at that level. Look, here's a deal. If you're the average person and you want to build muscle and you like to follow a bodybuilding routine, that doesn't mean you do the stuff that the advanced bodybuilders do. That's a whole different level. Like, are you going to wear a belt to make sure your waist doesn't grow or something? It's not going to help you at that level. Now if you're a 300 pound bodybuilder, you're on growth hormone and you're on testosterone. It's turned into an accessory, like a clothing accessory. You have your name on the back. If you walk into the gym and you've got your belt over your shoulder and your gallon of water, I mean you just... I love you. Yeah, I'm announcing I'm a bodybuilder. You know what I'm saying? That's just rules. It's become that. And you had your beets around your neck, right? Yeah, 100% in my stringer, right? Underneath my leggings. Super thick oversize sweater. You've got to get a pump first. Yeah, yeah, that's all right. And then scare everybody afterwards. Look at that dude over there, right? No, no, no. I mean, there's... To me, it's a tool, right? I mean, I think you're alluding to that, Sal, that it's a tool and it has value. But for most people, you should be training with it as little or as never, or never. There's no reason for you to do it unless you're spore. It changes recruitment patterns. When you wear a belt, your core pushes out against the belt to stabilize. When you don't have a belt, your core braces. Totally different. If you get really good with the belt and all you ever do is wear a belt, when you go out to brace your core in the real world, you might find yourself having problems. Exactly.