Good Neighbor Podcast for the Greater Chattanooga Region

Elizabeth Burgess on Empowering Lives Through Fitness and Local Support

August 23, 2024 • Scott Howell

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Have you ever wondered how one goes from caring for penguins to becoming a fitness powerhouse? Join us as we sit down with Elizabeth Burgess from Our House Studios to uncover her captivating journey from the Chattanooga Aquarium to the world of fitness. Elizabeth opens up about her personal fitness evolution and shares the wide array of programs at her studio, from weight training and CrossFit to HIIT classes and the specialized Rock Steady Boxing for Parkinson's patients. She provides invaluable insights into bodybuilding, nutritional guidance, and the transformative benefits of fitness, particularly for those managing Parkinson's symptoms.

Discover the true measure of fitness progress as we discuss the importance of muscle measurement over scale numbers, and how regular body measurements can offer a more accurate picture of your journey. Elizabeth dispels common myths about weight training, especially for women, and highlights the crucial role of lean muscle in boosting metabolism and managing weight. Finally, we also shine a spotlight on Elizabeth's dedication to supporting local businesses and fostering a healthy community in Chattanooga. Tune in for inspiring stories, expert tips, and a celebration of our local heroes.

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Speaker 1:

This is the Good Neighbor Podcast, the place where local businesses and neighbors come together. Here's your host, Scott Howell.

Speaker 2:

Hello, good neighbors, welcome to the Good Neighbor Podcast brought to you by the Friends and Neighbors Group of Greater Chattanooga Region. Again, my name is Scott Howell and I'm your host for today. You know a lot of people want to know what is this Good Neighbor podcast thing all about? Well, we're all about trying to bring an awareness to the residents living in our communities about the businesses that are either locally owned and operated, or maybe their corporate office is somewhere else. But they are locally operated by people who live and work in this area. And you know, we're all about trying to promote that local presence, because that's what it's all about.

Speaker 2:

You know, a lot of people have forgotten that our local communities were built on the backs of small businesses. You know, small businesses some of them became larger later but small businesses are who still need our support today and we don't need to forget about them. And you know, every local business, I like to say, you know, has a story to tell, and here on the Good Neighbor podcast, we just want to help them. Shout it loud and proud so everybody in this whole area will know they're there and know what's available to them, what they offer. And today we have one of our good neighbors with us, elizabeth Burgess, with Our House Studios, and we are so glad to have you today, elizabeth.

Speaker 3:

Thank you for having me.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, absolutely, you know Elizabeth. I reached out to Elizabeth because I get on Instagram and try to do some posting and stuff and we've had a few technical difficulties, hadn't been able to use it like we'd like to. But I get on there and there's Elizabeth. Everywhere I turn, there's Elizabeth and we were. You know, we were trying to reach out to some people that were involved in the fitness industry and trying to do a, because it's summertime, right, we all want to look good, but we'll go out with our shirt off or we go down to the beach or the river or whatever. We want to look good, right? So I thought it was a good time to reach out to some folks and I kept seeing Elizabeth on the air and what she is doing to help people and what she does for herself, and so I just wanted to have you on and Elizabeth, before we dive into talking about what you do at Our House Studios, would you like to share a little bit with us about yourself and your family?

Speaker 3:

Sure, I'm actually a Ringgold native, originally from Chattanooga, tennessee. I moved away for college. I'm a biologist by trade and moved back about 10 years ago with me and my four boys. Okay yeah, so I came back here. I was at the aquarium for a while. I actually still do penguins at the aquarium. I work from home and I train five days a week.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, I've seen some of your videos and stuff where you posted about the penguins and all.

Speaker 3:

Yeah, that was fascinating that was actually um, that was their first time back on exhibit after being off of it for about two weeks, which never happened, since we had that. Yeah, that exhibit opened in 2015 and that they were off for, um, for construction purposes, but that was their first day back and they just ran and went nuts. Well, during that period of time, were you still able to?

Speaker 2:

interact with day back and they just ran and went nuts. Well, during that period of time, were you still able to interact with them, or were they just kind of in confinement or Well, we have two backup rooms, isolation and holding, so we split them based on their species.

Speaker 3:

We have two species, and one was in one room and one was in the other, and they're used to being in confined spaces. So for them it's good, like for us it'd be claustrophobic, but they love it, I love it, okay.

Speaker 2:

It was.

Speaker 3:

It was pretty gross.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, I lived up in Sevierville for a couple of years and I used to go to the Ripley's Aquarium up there. A lot, that's a good one. Yeah, I enjoyed it. I enjoyed the aquarium.

Speaker 3:

I haven't been to the one in Chattanooga in a while.

Speaker 2:

I need to get back over there. Well, we got two buildings and we have a brand new baby penguin chick too. Oh, okay, all right, wow, yeah, I gotta go over and see that. Well, you know, let's talk about our house studios. I, I understand it's a fitness center, uh, but what, what, what do? And then talk to me about what you do there.

Speaker 3:

So Our House, it's a privately owned gym and it's kind of like one-stop shopping for all fitness levels. So we have our weight room, we have our front room, which has like CrossFit, cell classes, hiit classes, we have boxing, we have pedaling, and we also have other trainers and their programs that run out of there, like rocks day boxing, which is strictly for Parkinson's patients and, um, anybody with like neurodegenerative diseases, so like Louie body syndrome, and they're there three days a week as well. Okay, and I personally I work with particularly women. I do bodybuilding and weight training, I do everybody's macros. If you want to learn more about nutrition, want to tailor your diet to like a cutting phase, if you want to lose weight or if you want to build muscle, then I do that for you. And I also work with Rock State Boxing, working with our Parkinson's patients.

Speaker 2:

And I also work with Rock State Boxing working with our Parkinson's patients. You know I want to talk a little bit about that Parkinson's situation. You know we had somebody really close in our family that passed from Parkinson's and how does that benefit them? You know we all know Parkinson's by the shaking. You know when they have the tremors. How does that boxing benefit them?

Speaker 3:

So they've done a lot of studies with Parkinson's patients looking at how fitness affects them. Um, and what it does is it slows down the progression of the disease. There isn't a cure. It is progressive, it's going to get worse.

Speaker 3:

But what we do with Roxette Boxing and Kristen Shalasi, who started the affiliate that we have in our gym, it's three days a week and it's an hour and a half, so it's half it, which is, you know, constantly moving, doing different exercises, and then it's half boxing, and what we do is we work on their gross motor skills and also their fine motor skills and also their memory, because that's another thing that people don't think about with Parkinson's is a lot of them are suffering from dementia that's caused by the progression of the disease. So we may have them, you know, going over hurdles or doing a jump rope, but we also will have them do a sequence of exercises like tell them what the exercises are, and they have to remember what those exercises are like. We don't tell them, we don't give them a piece of paper. They have to try and remember it.

Speaker 3:

So it's really training your brain and your body because the more you move, the better your progression is. If you just sit there and you do nothing, they know that your Parkinson's is going to progress faster. So we're really trying to delay the symptoms and sometimes you know it can be difficult, but we have patients that will come there, they have people who drive them there and they are there three days a week for an hour and a half every single class. So I say if a Parkinson's patient can work out that much, everybody else can.

Speaker 2:

Well, yeah that's, that's a really inspirational because you know, I'm somebody who witnessed that, that slow progression of the disease and degradation of the physical activity of the body. I I guess, when I look, when I think about that, he didn't get a lot of physical exercise. Once it happened, he did just kind of sit down and lay down under it. So you know, if that would have benefited him and kept him a little bit more cognitive I guess is the right word that would have been great.

Speaker 3:

That was one thing that we saw with COVID is, you know, they shut down all the gyms and so the Parkinson's patients.

Speaker 3:

they regressed because they didn't have that physical outlet and so once they came back, you know they got back into it, but their symptoms really progressed a lot more than it would have if it kept the gyms open and they kept coming. It's also a social aspect. Like the patient comes, they work out, but also their caregiver gets a break and they can interact with other caregivers. So you have that social aspect of it, which is really, really important because along with you know the tremors and the dementia you are, you're also dealing with caretaker fatigue and depression and we know exercising releasing that dopamine, it helps with all those things.

Speaker 2:

So this is a group class. I take it then.

Speaker 3:

Yes, it is, it's actually an affiliate. It's Roxay Boxing Chattanooga and it runs out of the room and they do pedaling for Parkinson's as well. Kimberly Bryson Jones does that and sometimes some of the Parkinson's patients will show up just to play ping pong because we have ping pong tables, and they will come an hour before Roxay class just to play ping pong. But it's also that social interaction.

Speaker 2:

Elizabeth, you said you're a biologist by trade right by trade. So tell us about your journey into the fitness world.

Speaker 3:

So I grew up as a dancer. That was my background. I danced all the way through my senior year at West Georgia. So I've always been into fitness and I've always exercised just because I had to be, and I went through the typical COVID divorce after almost 19 years and so I was in the gym all the time and I was like I'm going to be here anyway.

Speaker 3:

I may as well get my personal training certification, which I did through ISA, which is actually very science heavy. So I had the background for it and I could understand it very quickly and pick it up quickly. And I also approach my training in a very scientific way. So, like with your macros, I will calculate it based on grams of protein, carbs, fats, based on you know, your medications that you're taking, your age, your height, your weight, but also with the exercises. So I will. I actually this is very nerdy. I watched YouTube videos from sports science experts and they talk about the studies that they've done on certain exercises and which ones have the greatest potential for muscle growth based on, like actually hooking you up to electrodes for each muscle and seeing how the muscle reacts to the various exercises.

Speaker 3:

So I get very nerdy and in depth about it. Like you know, you can be doing this exercise but here's a better one. So that's how I tailor my workouts for myself and also for my clients.

Speaker 2:

Well, that's pretty good to know, because if I mean, if you were my trainer, uh, I'll, I'll be I would be hoping that you had the knowledge to tell me you know which exercises that I needed to be doing. But you know, not not only just which exercise, but you know if I, if I could do this exercise and maybe it was uh wouldn't have to do as much of it or less exertion than the other one to get better benefits. Why not?

Speaker 3:

And that's actually my biggest pet peeve, because in with social media today, you have Instagram, tik TOK, and you see all these reels where people are. They're doing kind of gimmicky things, like gimmicky movements and exercises and doing stupid stuff and awkward positions, and it's like you don't need to do any of that. You know the basics work. It's the same thing with nutrition. The basics work it's calories in versus calories out. You know there's nothing like the body type diet or you know the blood type diet. That's just all BS and crap. So that's kind of one of my things. It's like you know the basics work. For a reason it's backed by science and that's what I like to push. I have clients come to me like, well, I saw this, I'm like I don't care what you saw. That's what I like to push. I have clients come to me. It's like well, I saw this. I'm like I don't care what you saw. That's just like ignore it.

Speaker 2:

Watch that like a cartoon.

Speaker 3:

It looks good on video, but that person is fit because they're doing these other things, not because they're doing that stupid video that they put up on Tik TOK reviews.

Speaker 2:

Just cause the Wiley and Cowdy, the Wiley, cowdy and the Roadrunner done it. Don't mean it's going to be good for you to do right. Exactly.

Speaker 3:

That confuses a lot of people and that's why people are very intimidated by fitness, because it can be overwhelming.

Speaker 3:

At our house we kind of put you, we dumb it down for you, we tell you what you need to do and how you need to do it, and so it takes the guesswork out of it. And because it's easier to do and you don't have to think about it, you're more liable to stick with it, as opposed to just kind of you know, giving up after a few months. Well, seeing results faster, too, is encouraging. You know when you start seeing results right away.

Speaker 2:

You know, giving up after a few months. Well, seeing results faster too is encouraging. You know, when you start seeing results right away, I mean nobody's going to go to. You know, go to the gym once and come out with swelling muscles. But once you you can start seeing small little things happening. It's encouraging.

Speaker 3:

It is, and I do encourage my clients to take pictures every four weeks. Whether you think you know you think it's helping or not, go ahead and take those pictures because you see yourself every day and your co-workers see you every day, the people at the gym see you the every day.

Speaker 3:

So if you take those photos, you really start to see the difference and it motivates you to keep going and it can be pretty impressive, like I take photos every four weeks just to see you know how I'm progressing, if I need to tweak something back off something, it's good for everybody and I think it's becoming more acceptable to to take those photos because I also tell my clients like post them online because you get encouragement from other people and it helps you going to absolutely the a lot of people are putting pictures online.

Speaker 2:

They're actually doing it, working out in the gym and putting stuff online. And of course you hear some you know criticizers and things like that. But I think it's good because it it. You know, watching those videos actually motivates me. I see other people getting results and I'm like wow, I mean, if they can do it, why can't I? You know? So do you encourage measurements? Do what Do you encourage? Taking measurements?

Speaker 3:

So I personally will take measurements for my clients and again, I do it. It depends on what they're wanting Like. If they're wanting to gain muscle, it's a lot more difficult, so we'll do measurements like every six to eight weeks. But if they want to lose and they're in a cutting phase, then I do it every four weeks because and this is also people have to get out of their mentality of weighing themselves. That's like my biggest struggle with clients is they keep weighing themselves.

Speaker 2:

Yeah.

Speaker 3:

Because you may think that you're not changing at all, but the measurements tell a different story. Your waist may be getting smaller, your chest may be getting bigger, especially if you're a man. It's because you're putting on muscle.

Speaker 3:

So quit weighing yourself, do the measurements, and even like half an inch to an inch, it makes a big difference. Also, you're close Like. I have a client right now. He showed me a picture of where his he's a police officer and his weight belt has gone down like four or five notches just a couple of months, and again he sees himself every day. So he's not seeing you know such a drastic change, but his clothes are hanging off of them. Other people are noticing. In a picture popped up from like a year ago on Facebook, and then he compared it to the date. It's night and day. Yeah, take photos, do measurements, post it Like it's becoming more acceptable to do these things too.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, I have just a regular clothing belt that I'm fixing to have to replace, because I'm on, I'm on the last notch and it's actually a bit, a little bit too loose. So, yeah, it's very encouraging, you know when that happens, super encouraging.

Speaker 3:

Yeah, the belt notches are the biggest thing for some people.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, I'm like you. You know I I shared with you some of my weight loss and I, when I and I know I totally understand what you're talking about the scale I tell people I really don't care what the scale says, I just know what I want my body to look like.

Speaker 2:

You know, if I get my body to the point where I want it to look and it says I weigh 250, I don't really care right, but if I just want to look like I want to look, you know, I want to get rid of the belly fat.

Speaker 3:

Yeah, like you feel better, you got more energy. It's amazing what it can do. And once you start to see those changes and you feel better. It's a snowball effect that keeps you going.

Speaker 2:

Talk to people a little bit about you. Used some words that some people might not understand if they haven't really followed the fitness industry. Talk to people about the bulking and the cutting.

Speaker 3:

So when I calculate so, I calculate people's diets based on their macros, which are your macro nutrients. It's your proteins, your carbs and your fats which make up your total calories for the day.

Speaker 2:

Now, that's a macro.

Speaker 3:

Yes, your protein is a macro. These are essentially like the basic categories of how you categorize your nutrition. I calculate them based on what your goals are. If you want to lose weight, I would put you in a cutting phase. If you're happy with your weight overall, but you just want to build more muscle, maintenance calories, so we're not increasing them, we're not decreasing them, giving them the same, I would just kind of like kick up your protein a bit and alter your workout a little bit. Now, if you're wanting to build muscle, we're going to bulk. You put you in a bulking phase, which means we're going to jack up your calories, all the fats, carbs, proteins. Typically, that's going to be what the men want, because all men want, you know, big arms, big shoulders. So that's typically what they go for.

Speaker 3:

women typically go for the weight loss, which is the cutting yeah again, it's based on your age, um, your weight, current weight and if you've had kids, because because I work mostly with postpartum women we're in our 40s now, we're perimenopausal, some are postmenopausal. It affects your hormones and it's going to affect your weight.

Speaker 2:

So when you're talking about a woman wanting to lose weight, how and of course this would be the same for men or women, but I think about a lot of women seems like maybe of course I mean anymore, there's more women in the gym than there are men, but but there's some women still kind of feel intimidated about it. So when it comes to weight loss, how, how does the lean muscle, having more lean muscle, affect their weight loss or not?

Speaker 3:

So the more muscle you put on, the more energy you're going to burn, because muscle burns more calories just generally throughout the day. They've done studies where they look at the calorie expenditure after you've done weight training versus after you've done cardio. You're going to burn a lot of carbs when you're doing cardio. Afterwards your body's going to switch to burning fat. With bodybuilding you're going to be burning a little bit of fat and afterwards your body's going to be burning carbs. So overall it's going to be the same thing, like calories in versus calories out. The difference is when you weight train, that burning phase of like burning calories last longer than if you do cardio.

Speaker 3:

So, that's why I really push weight training for women, especially if you're older, because you can maintain your weight better if you have more muscle. But, the caveat is it's more difficult to build muscle the older you get.

Speaker 2:

Well you know I hear people say women say sometimes I don't want to bulk up, I don't want to look big. I think sometimes they don't realize that's harder than they really think it is. They realize they don't realize that's harder than they really think it is. But if they can build that lean muscle, it may not pop up in their biceps and it may not pop up in their shoulders necessarily depends on their training. But but they, if they can have that more of that lean muscle, not only will it help them to lose weight, but isn't it better, going into older age to have that muscle to support themselves, so they won't have as many falls and maybe they'll be able to take care of themselves longer?

Speaker 3:

Yeah, the more lean muscle mass that you have, especially as a female, it just helps you overall. It helps with your energy. As you get older you may want to work more on mobility, things like that. I will say women always say you know, I don't want to get bulky. It is not possible for a female to get bulky. We, our bodies, simply don't produce enough testosterone in order to do it. We have way too much estrogen which is kind of going to knock down whatever natural testosterone your body could produce, so it kind of it puts a limit on how much muscle you could build.

Speaker 3:

And again even if you are eating nothing but protein and lifting weights like you should, a woman's only going to get so much muscle mass.

Speaker 2:

Okay.

Speaker 3:

Our bodies are just not programmed that way. Our bodies are programmed to hold on to a lot of fat. So for us we it would be hard to get down to like 15% body fat, whereas a man easy to do, Cause he's got the testosterone to do it. So I'd say for women you're not going to get bulky, it's just not going to happen. Unless you take something, it's not going to happen.

Speaker 2:

Unless you take something that that does for that purpose of trying to bulk up Okay.

Speaker 3:

Yeah, which some women do To each their own.

Speaker 2:

To each their own right. Yeah, like you said. But yeah, I think there's some women are afraid of I just need the treadmill because I don't want to bulk up but they don't realize how beneficial it is to their overall health, especially their long-term health.

Speaker 3:

Yes, beneficial it is to their overall health and especially their long-term health. I see women doing cardio all the time and their bodies don't change because they're just doing cardio. When you're doing cardio, your body's building carbs. It's not burning fat. It's just not so if you want to get that fat loss, you need to start lifting weights and especially the older you get.

Speaker 1:

I mean.

Speaker 3:

I see women running all the time their bodies aren't changing. I see them doing HIIT classes for years on end their body's not changing. You've got to lift weights and it is intimidating for some women. Our gym we do have quite a few women in the weight room, but again it's mostly men, it's mostly power lifters. But we do have quite a few women in the weight room, but again it's mostly men, it's mostly power lifters. But once you get in there and you get comfortable with machines and the dumbbells, again it it makes it easier. But it's just kind of like taking those first steps to get into the weight room and start lifting weights.

Speaker 3:

I would say like if that's what you want, if you want to lose fat, stop doing so much cardio, pick up a dumbbell and we are here to help you. And that's the one thing about our house studios is, we really do hold you accountable if that's what you want, because we can tell you what exercises to do and tell you what to eat. A lot of gyms don't do that, or if they do, they charge you like $150 a month. We're not going to do that. I actually are free for a lot of people. If you ask me for it, I'll do it for you. It takes me 10 minutes to do the math.

Speaker 2:

That's great to know, because you know some people just can't afford the extra to have all that done, so they just I know some pros here in Chattanooga that charge like $150 a month just to calculate your macros.

Speaker 3:

Wow, that's ridiculous. Wow, that's absolutely ridiculous. Don't pay 150 bucks for your macros. Come to our house, I'll do it for free.

Speaker 2:

And you were talking about lifting weights. One more thing I want to add, I want to interject they don't have to lift heavy either, do they?

Speaker 3:

No, sometimes like you could do well with just a pair of 15-pound dumbbells, especially on your arms, because for a woman, a woman doesn't have to do as heavy a weight, we just have to do more volume. Versus a man, a man can go heavier and do way less volume because a man's body is not going to recover as faster as a female's. Females we recover very fast so we can work out the same muscle group more often and do a higher volume. So like higher reps, like 15 to 20 reps, you're good to go.

Speaker 2:

That's not fair. Now that y'all we recover faster than we do, that's just not fair, Elizabeth.

Speaker 3:

Well, the caveat is, we got to work harder.

Speaker 2:

Oh my goodness, hey, real quick before we get off here. Uh, what do you want us, elizabeth, like to do for fun when you're not working?

Speaker 3:

you know, that's actually a good question because, like the gym is my fun, which is why I'm there five days a week. Even on Sunday, my day's off, I'll go in and if somebody needs help I'm there. I've got four boys, so when I'm not at the gym or working, I'm with my boys.

Speaker 2:

Are all your boys still at home?

Speaker 3:

They are. I've got 21, 16, 9, and 6. My 21-year-old just got out of the Navy.

Speaker 2:

Oh, wow, well, tell him. Thank you, thank him for his service, appreciate that? Yeah, that's wonderful to know. Well, before we jump off, I always like to ask this question of everybody that that is on with me if there was one thing that you wish our listeners knew about elizabeth burgess, our House Studios, but they probably wouldn't know unless you share it with them and you'd like to just shout it loud and proud here today, what would it be?

Speaker 3:

It would be that I'm actually very introverted and shy, but when it comes to somebody wanting to get in shape and feel better about themselves, I will bend over backwards. Helping you to do it. Just come to our gym, Well that's great, I tell you.

Speaker 2:

I couldn't tell you were shy here today. I mean, we're talking about something you love, right? It's your passion. Yeah, elizabeth, why don't you share with us how people can find out more about Our House Studios and find out more about yourself, whether online or offline?

Speaker 3:

So we are Our House Studios. We are on Facebook and Instagram under Our House Studios. I am also on Instagram and Facebook. Elizabeth Tenney, T-I-N-N-E-Y. Our gym is located at Gateway Business Mall, which is next to Costco in Ringle, Georgia, 4009 Cloud Springs Road, and we are there six days a week, sorry, seven.

Speaker 2:

Seven days a week, all right, and I guess they can find the phone number and the address. If they need a specific address, they can find it all there.

Speaker 3:

Everything's on Facebook.

Speaker 2:

On Facebook. Okay, on Facebook. Yeah, so well, elizabeth, it has been fun having you here. I've been so interested. I love to hear your take on fitness and what you do for your clients and for the clients there at our house studios, and I thank you for what you do for Parkinson's patients. That's really special.

Speaker 3:

Well, thank you for having me and rattle on and on.

Speaker 2:

No, no, it's been very interesting and I appreciate you being here. And you know, to all the residents that are in the whole greater Chattanooga region, after hearing Elizabeth talk about what she does for people, you know it's so inspiring because you know, if you follow Elizabeth's Instagram and see what she does for herself personally and you understand that what she does for others is an example of what she's doing for herself, then you see how interesting she is and how much she can actually help you if you allow her to. And she mentioned some of the other people's name there at Our House Studios as well that do things. Some of the other people's name they're at our house studios as well that do things. But you know, if you have someone that's in need of that help with the Parkinson's patient, just remember this is a gym you can go to and they have help there and not only for your family member, maybe the caregiver, whether it's you, the family member or somebody that's supporting in a supporting role, there's help for you and if you need that help personally, won't they lose weight, build muscle, maintain whatever Elizabeth has? She has the secret recipe. She will help you with your exercises and with the macro.

Speaker 2:

So it's been wonderful getting to know more about her and our house today, and before ending this episode, I'd like to thank you all of course, the listeners for, you know, just taking time out of your day and spending with us here at the Good Neighbor Podcast. You know, I always like to say this before I get off. You know, just remember to support locally owned and or operated businesses, whether they're from Cleveland to Dalton, from Jasper to Benton, somewhere in between. This Chattanooga region is a beautiful place, full of beautiful people, and let's do all we can to support one another. My name's Scott Howell. I'm with the Friends and Neighbors Group. Everyone, go out and make this a remarkable day.

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