Well, hey there, I'm super excited that you're here today because there was a massive update from the

American College of Sports Medicine. The acronym for that is ACSM this week. And it's been kind of like

all the rage in the fitness space when I'm following people with PhDs, when I'm looking at physical

therapy pages, when I'm looking at personal trainers.

All of us have used this guideline, and I should say that their guidelines are part of the

textbook, the certifications for a lot of these fields, personal training, physical therapy,

and a lot of other ones, sports conditioning, all of those things. And they made a big update recently. The last time

that their guidelines for exercise and strength training in general had been updated was 2009.

Since then, there has been more than 30,000 studies published on strength training. Yes, you heard me

right. 30,000 studies. That's a

mind-blowing amount of science. And over the years, they still haven't taken the time to update it,

but this is why this is so great, because all of this information has been out there. It's kind of

scattered. It's been disconnected. We're using it in different ways,

but this new update from the ACSM really has pulled it all together in a useful picture

and updated their guidelines. I'm excited to share with you some of the new changes. And while a lot of

the information actually isn't new to me, like some of it I've already been aware of because of different studies, because of staying

up to day in continuing education and those things.

But there were some things that were definitely different that kind of blew old concepts

out of the water or kind of changed the general guidelines.

So I'm really excited to share some of those with you.

Now, this update was done on 137 systematic reviews and data from over 30,000 participants.

So this is the biggest, most comprehensive analysis of strength training ever done.

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