Sep 16, 2026 · 1 hr 3 min · 11 segments
Jason and Gabe are back with a conversation that goes from choosing between squats and deadlifts to the little things that matter at home. They talk about earning your spouse’s support, why making…
Gabe YanezGuest
Jason KhalipaHost
It's such an interesting, like hypothetical question because it's always these are always ridiculous questions.
would it be the deadlift for you? By the way, we understand like, dude, we're just riffing.
As I think like a lot of people are, as I think you are, which is why your opinion has changed.
Like I a hundred percent bet the fact that like, you know, your knee has been something, hopefully it's feeling better, but something that's been bugging you is a big piece of this because, and it goes back to like some of the stuff that we've talked about in the past and that like, a big reason, especially us that like, and a lot of guys listening that have already gotten strong enough, right? Like, I think that's another really big piece of this conversation is like, at what point do you not have to get your squat number to go up? Do you not have to PR on your deadlift? What you have to do is maintain that movement pattern.
And maintaining once you're in your 40s and your 50s, like that's progress on its own, because most people are on the way down or what your body is generally going to do is start losing muscle, losing strength.
So I think that like in that context, it's one of those things where once a movement is limiting or it hurts or it just doesn't fire you up to go in to do it, or you feel like you need to warm up for like 30 minutes just to be able to do it, like Is it that important for you to do anymore? Like you can work on your squat pattern by doing step ups, by doing Bulgarian split squats, by doing a lot of things that honestly are probably going to serve you a lot more than this big compound lift.
And again, this is where I tend to have not a bone to pick, but like one of the things that CrossFit, I think, did a disservice to a lot of guys that got into it is like you're just told that like it's got to be compound or bust.
Once you've gotten the benefit of those big compound lifts, like once you're strong to a point, you should be doing probably lighter loads, smaller distances, you know, like working on balance, working on lateral movements, all the things that, you know, If you're still stuck on this myopic view of CrossFit and compound moves and, you know, like you do your strength and then you do your Metcon, like you're missing out on a big area of training that I think a lot of guys that have come from a CrossFit background and are now in their 30s and 40s could like substantially benefit from.
It's such an interesting, like hypothetical question because it's always these are always ridiculous questions.
would it be the deadlift for you? By the way, we understand like, dude, we're just riffing.
As I think like a lot of people are, as I think you are, which is why your opinion has changed.
Like I a hundred percent bet the fact that like, you know, your knee has been something, hopefully it's feeling better, but something that's been bugging you is a big piece of this because, and it goes back to like some of the stuff that we've talked about in the past and that like, a big reason, especially us that like, and a lot of guys listening that have already gotten strong enough, right? Like, I think that's another really big piece of this conversation is like, at what point do you not have to get your squat number to go up? Do you not have to PR on your deadlift? What you have to do is maintain that movement pattern.
And maintaining once you're in your 40s and your 50s, like that's progress on its own, because most people are on the way down or what your body is generally going to do is start losing muscle, losing strength.
So I think that like in that context, it's one of those things where once a movement is limiting or it hurts or it just doesn't fire you up to go in to do it, or you feel like you need to warm up for like 30 minutes just to be able to do it, like Is it that important for you to do anymore? Like you can work on your squat pattern by doing step ups, by doing Bulgarian split squats, by doing a lot of things that honestly are probably going to serve you a lot more than this big compound lift.
And again, this is where I tend to have not a bone to pick, but like one of the things that CrossFit, I think, did a disservice to a lot of guys that got into it is like you're just told that like it's got to be compound or bust.
Once you've gotten the benefit of those big compound lifts, like once you're strong to a point, you should be doing probably lighter loads, smaller distances, you know, like working on balance, working on lateral movements, all the things that, you know, If you're still stuck on this myopic view of CrossFit and compound moves and, you know, like you do your strength and then you do your Metcon, like you're missing out on a big area of training that I think a lot of guys that have come from a CrossFit background and are now in their 30s and 40s could like substantially benefit from.
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