Dr. Bret Contreras

It builds your bilateral double leg strength as well.

You don't have to do every lift year round.

They transfer each other.

Pick one exercise from that pattern.

And trust that you're going to maintain most of your strength.

Yes, when you have the squat-focused month and you put deadlifts and hip thrusts on the back burner, the next month, yes, you set a PR on squats on week four, you're feeling good.

You start off the new month now focusing on, say, deadlifts or hip thrusts.

Maybe you lost some strength, but it quickly comes back.

And now by week four, you can PR on that too.

Things come back.

You don't always have to.

And I think that's something that's really hard for people.

You get so tied to the lifts themselves.

You get so tied to the routine and the, I have to be doing every exercise.

If I stop deadlifting, I'm going to shrink.

If I stop squatting, I'm going to shrink.

And the body's pretty resilient.

You maintain your muscle.

You maintain your strength.

If you have to do a single leg pattern or if you're just training the movement patterns, you will retain those.