What's up, everybody? This is Jay Faroujian. You were listening to the Renegade

Strength Show. If you haven't been here before, what we do is a few different things.

Sometimes we'll have guests on and sometimes we will do a Q&A. Sometimes I will just get

on and rant about something. I've been doing this for 27 years, helping build stronger,

healthier, happier humans. That is my mission in life. Today we're going to do a Q&A where

to answer some of your questions. What I normally do is I will post on my Instagram stories

for question questions. Sometimes you guys will just submit them to podcasts at jasonfrugia.com

or sometimes I will just randomly have people, clients, whatever, ask me questions and I

will add those in and answer those on a show because I figure, man, most people could

benefit from this. That being said, let's get to it. Today I don't have the names of the

people who submitted questions, which may be a thing in the future. I know a lot of times

people will submit a question and they want to be anonymous. That's totally cool. You could

just let me know either way, but right now to save time today, I am solo Leonard's not

here. We're going to just going to rip through this with no names. First question, knowing

what you know now, would you have changed anything when you started training? Yes, a million

things I would change. Well, a million is a bit of hyperbole, but I would have changed

all the things I teach you guys to do now. Let's see off the top of my head. One, I would

not have started with big barbell lifts like the bench squat deadlift overhead press. Two,

I wouldn't really have used many straight bars. I would use a safety bar or a trap bar and

a neutral grip bar. Three, I would not have as relentlessly chased progressive overload

on every exercise of every workout all the time. I would have gone in there knowing, hey,

it depends on your sleep last night. It depends on your nutrition, your hydration, all the

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