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What's up, guys? Welcome back to the show. Thanks for tuning in. Once again, I got a Q&A here. And my brother from another mother, Evan Herndon, E. Reese, is in the studio again with me. Absolutely. So we want to get to your questions and go from there. Jump right in? Yes, sir. Let's jump right in. All right. All right, number one, what's the best rep scheme for my main lifts? So this is a concept that I think once you get over the age of 35 and definitely 40, you got to let go of. It's people who are, like, you probably don't even know what that means, probably, right? Not exactly. I have an idea. Okay, so you're still living in like your 20s and 30s where you're just power lifting. So your main lifts, what you probably assume is like your bench press, your squat, your deadlift. Right. But as you get older, every exercise should be treated equally. I don't think we, I don't think I know we shouldn't be going in and starting an

ex starting your workout with a heavy bench press, a heavy squat, heavy deadlift. As you get

older, you do those later in your workout. You do like curls, leg extensions, hip thrust, and then

squat. You dumbbell presses and then maybe a cable fly. And then you wouldn't even flat barbell

bench, maybe do a low incline or a machine or

something um so i think you just got to let go of that mindset because that's how you're just going to

get injured and then and then also you know what i don't like about main lift is it's like okay i'm

going to put effort into these big exercises and then just phone it in and just catch a mindless

pump on the other exercise well i think everything should be treated Like, we're doing these five exercises for, let's say, two sets each. So it's like you got 10 sets in a workout. Why would you only put effort into one of them, like your main lift? And then you're just jerking off on the others, you know what I mean? Put in some effort and track the other stuff. Like you're pushed down. You should be putting effort into your lateral raise.

You should be putting effort into your leg extent.

You should put effort into.

And they track those and try to increase your weight on those too.

Got it.

So you're saying it should be more balanced.

Yeah.

Just like, yeah.

Yeah.

I don't think there should be a main because the main exercise, it just, again, it's a powerlifting concept.

Like, you should figure out what works for you at your age and with your joint health.

That's like if we just went in at 51 every week and just did bench squats and des, you're like, dude, I feel terrible, you know what I mean?

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