You're not going to be here. Welcome back to the Barbell Medicine Podcast. I'm here with Dr Baraki. What's going on man?

Not much. I think we're getting ready to talk about little ones today, little people.

I don't know if that's politically correct anymore. Do we need to restart the...

Little children?

Little... again, I don't want to be sisest. I don't want to be accused of that so I also heard that you

had a really good training session today. Yeah it was the culmination of a long

block of training where I haven't been doing much squatting trying to push my deadlift up

which failed miserably.

So back to the drawing board and you know still chasing that big 700.

So what you're saying is that my deadlift is ahead of yours.

For now.

I had to do it.

No, so, you know, it's interesting though, and we won't spend too much time talking about our own training,

but, you know, there's been this notion of, of oh just do what works for you try

everything and then you know you'll figure out what works for you and and just try and

find out but I think you and I would both disagree with that because we would say you have to evaluate what you're going to do, what you're planning to do from like known, you know, known entities.

So for instance, we both know that in general increasing volume will drive

strength up after strength is plateau at a certain level. We both know that. We also both know

that you have to modulate intensity and overall fatigue to fit the person's

needs and we think about exercise frequency.

All these sort of things we have general ideas about what will lead to improvement.

So if a program does not fulfill those criteria or play by those rules,

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