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I don't know why I keep saying welcome back like this is a series or something. Our series is over.

This is a regular episode. I'm Joe, and with me, in the content mine is Tom. Hello, Tom. How are you?

I'm good. I don't like how you shamed me earlier on for using a hack squat machine.

I feel very strongly about the existence of a hack squat machine.

I don't like to consider myself a workout elitist by any stretch of the imagination,

but unless you have some kind of injury that precludes you from using a regular squat rack,

a hack squat is a war crime. You're a barbell supremacist. That's right. Yeah.

I'm fine with dumbbells, kettlebells, all those things, but a hack squat against the wall.

You're redeemable. It is like a completely different movement in my mind, because the reason why

is I've started using a gym that's close to the studio because despite the fact that my regular gym

is like, there's an Olympic weightlifter from my area, like a medallist. So the gym, despite the

fact that's community gym, is insanely decked out. It has all really good bumper plates and it has,

you know, two pararacks put like 15 barbells and loads of machines and stuff, but it crucially

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