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I'm your host, Cody McBroom, and with me is my co-host.

Travis McQueen.

And we got another Q&A awesome we got a lot of

good questions here today today guys but but do you have anything to announce before we get into it

I felt like I was gonna say something but I can't remember what it was so we'll probably just let's just jump

in and then if it comes up I'll just go on a tangent okay but I know we got some good ones so let's let's just dive in and that'll probably just, let's just jump in. And then if it comes up, I'll just go on a tangent.

Okay.

But I know we got some good ones.

So let's, let's just dive in and that'll probably feel the time anyway.

Okay.

So we got question one.

It is, I had a question about smelling salts.

I saw a guy at the gym waving them in front of his lifter's face as he was bench pressing. Is there any benefits or risks involved using these?

And why would you even use it in the first place?

Okay.

So I pulled up smelling salts just so I can like actually speak properly of like what they

really are.

Um, so smelling salts are a combination of ammonium carbonate and perfume used to restore and stimulate your senses. Other names include ammonia and halent. So they actually use this like, what are the first responders called? EMTs. They will use that, I believe, to like revive people when they're like passing out shit, right? Like it's not. Wake you up. It's ammonia's it's not like a smelling salt use for power lift stuff but it's very very similar and essentially

what it does is it it cranks your adrenaline up cranks your cortisol up cranks your nervous system up

and allows you to lift really heavy so i mean you know i'm in the gym and i'm i'm gonna do a heavy

deadlift right i might do some like broad jumps or box jumps or something right before because I know being

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