#221: Should Resistance Training be Prescribed in Medicine? - Jordan Feigenbaum, MD

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Danny Lennon

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🗓️ 13 March 2018

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Jordan Feigenbaum is an experienced strength coach who also has his medical degree and residency training. In addition to a veritable laundry list of credentials, Jordan is also an elite powerlifter.

In This Episode We Discuss

Benefits of strength training for health
Why aren’t recommendations to do resistance training not more widespread in medical practice?
Misinterpretation of evidence-based practice
Is it better to recommend people do “any exercise they like” or persuade them to strength train?

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0:00.0	So less than 10% of all primary care physicians even know what the current exercise recommendations are.
0:13.8	I mean, there was even a study where they pulled internal medicine residents at a very prestigious academic institution that will go unnamed for this podcast.
0:24.2	One of their, they basically asked them, you know, like, hey, do you feel like you have a decent
0:28.5	grasp on nutrition?
0:29.9	And they were, and on average, you know, the average answer was, eh, not really, which was
0:33.8	later confirmed by another question where they asked them, hey, what are the, what are the calorie equivalents for one gram of protein,
0:40.1	one gram of carbohydrate, one gram of fat, 449?
0:43.6	And over, over half of them got the question wrong.
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1:35.1	website. So on to today's episode, and I'm going to be talking with Dr. Jordan Feigenbaum,
1:42.0	who is not only a medical doctor, but is also a strength
1:46.2	coach and has worked with people on strength training and nutrition for many, many years, has
1:52.1	conducted many seminars on the topic, and using that with his medical background has really
1:57.6	been trying to push the idea of how important resistance training can be
2:03.7	to long-term health. So not only for body composition, but all the myriad of things that are
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