243: Plant-Based Weight Lifting
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Lucas Rockwood
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🗓️ 21 February 2017
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
There is a myth that weight lifting makes you big and muscle-y. More than any time in history, medical doctors and fitness experts are recommending weight training as one of the best ways to improve your overall health because the results speak for themselves. From hormonal balance and bone strength, to joint stability and weight management, resistance training is very hard to beat—and it's not just for guys.
On this week's Yoga Talk Show, you'll meet body-positive, plant-based trainer, Lacy J. Davis, who is breaking stereotypes and helping women transform their lives.
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Listen & Learn:
- Why sarcopenia (muscle loss) affects almost everyone over the age of 30, and why we all need to focus on skeletal muscle maintenance and growth
- Why resistance training is a great way to encourage bone strength
- Why body image and eating disorders are propagated by the media, and how you can find balance in your life
- Why the 5 people you spend the most time with have a huge influence on your health and fitness goals
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ABOUT OUR GUEST
Lacy J. Davis is the founder of Super Strength Health. She is a health and wellness coach, personal trainer, public speaker, podcaster, writer, eating disorder recovery specialist, body love advocate, and artist located in Portland, OR. She is passionate about plant-based nutrition and body positivity.
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- Weight Loss
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| 0:00.0 | There's a concept called autogenic inhibition, and this is when you apply pressure to a muscle |
| 0:07.3 | to tone down its electrical activity. I'll give you a real world example so you understand exactly what I mean. |
| 0:13.2 | If you're out for a run and your calf muscle cramps and it cramps really hard, the first thing |
| 0:18.1 | you do is you sit down and you grab that calf muscle with your hands and you squeeze, squeeze, squeeze on it. And what you're doing |
| 0:24.7 | is you are utilizing autogenic inhibition here by pressing on the muscle. It |
| 0:31.1 | tells your body to turn off the electrical |
| 0:33.4 | signaling. It's just this phenomenon that has been discovered |
| 0:36.5 | since the beginning of time that everyone knows when you get a cramp |
| 0:39.4 | you put your hand on your side, you grab your calf wherever the cramp is, you touch it, and it decreases |
| 0:44.6 | the electrical activity. |
| 0:46.4 | If you imagine a muscle that's spasming, that's an electric pulse going, doz, |
| 0:50.0 | jh, and the way to turn that off, one of the ways is to squeeze that area, put pressure on that area, and release. |
| 0:58.0 | So, autogenic inhibition is very useful in the context of mobility training. |
| 1:03.6 | This is typically things flexibility training, mobility training is typically things |
| 1:07.2 | you'd want to do after your yoga class or your gym workout or your run or whatever you do to stay active. |
| 1:13.0 | And what you can do is in your really tight areas, |
| 1:15.0 | for example, your soas muscle |
| 1:16.7 | or your hamstrings really common areas. |
| 1:18.9 | Maybe on your peks on the, |
| 1:20.8 | you know, right near your shoulder, |
| 1:22.1 | maybe even on your rotator cuff, if you apply |
| 1:24.6 | pressure and then release and you do that again and again, it allows you to do mobility training |
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