004: Training Fast Twitch Muscle Fibers with Dr. Andy Galpin
The PJF Podcast: Elite Sports Performance
Paul Fabritz
4.8 • 528 Ratings
🗓️ 1 June 2019
⏱️ 100 minutes
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Summary
- 5:50- Background on Fast Twitch/Slow Twitch
- 17:03-Fiber Types of Explosive Athletes
- 28:12-Can we Change Fiber Types...Genetics?
- 31:01- How to Manage Fast Twitch
- 45:16- Light Weight/High Rep Detrimental?
- 48:26- Do we Get Enough Jumping on the Court?
- 51:40- Maintaining Fast Twitch in Season
- 56:52- Gender/Ethnic Differences in Fiber Types
- 1:17:39- Post Workout Nutrition
- 1:22:01- Best Supplements For Athletes
- 1:27:03- Thoughts on Vegan Diet
- 1:31:35- Best MMA Fighter Ever
- 1:32:48- Hardest Sport to Train For?
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | What's up guys? Welcome to episode four of the PJF podcast. Look, we got a very special guest today. |
| 0:06.5 | We got Dr. Andy Galpin in the lab. If you haven't heard of Dr. Andy Galpin, you might be under a rock. |
| 0:12.8 | He's been on all the big podcasts. You've probably seen him on Joe Rogan. He is a lead researcher and a great coach, actual strength coach. |
| 0:21.9 | When it comes to fiber typing, he is the guy. |
| 0:25.5 | And so this podcast is all about how to train for optimizing our fiber types. |
| 0:30.7 | So how do we get more fast-twitch muscle fibers? |
| 0:33.7 | We go pretty deep into the science, but we also give some very good, simple, practical |
| 0:39.3 | takeaways. |
| 0:40.4 | Let's get it. |
| 0:41.3 | You're listening to the PJF podcast, a show dedicated to decoding elite sports |
| 0:46.2 | performance and fitness. |
| 0:47.9 | I'm Paul Fabrets, and I'm an NBA Strength and Conditioning and Performance Trainer. |
| 0:52.4 | If you want to become superhuman, take your fitness and take your sports performance to the |
| 0:57.2 | next level. |
| 0:58.0 | This is the podcast for you. |
| 0:59.6 | Let's do it. |
| 1:03.1 | All right. |
| 1:03.8 | So we got Dr. Galpin in the podcast studio today. |
| 1:08.3 | So for the few of you guys who don't already know Dr. Galpin, he is a high |
| 1:12.6 | level scientist who is also entrenched in the actual coaching realm. So he doesn't just do this in the |
| 1:20.8 | books. He's actually real life teaching, you know, UFC and what other type of athletes do you work |
| 1:26.4 | with? I got some baseball players right now, major league guys, boxers, wrestlers, a lot of combat |
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