422: The Strength Therapist with Sam Spinelli
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Lucas Rockwood
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🗓️ 29 July 2020
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
The Strength Therapist
Sam Spinelli
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Of all the muscles in your body, your heart muscle gets the most attention - and for good reason. Cardiovascular disease continues to be the leading cause of death in most countries, so any comprehensive fitness programs must address heart health. But all the other muscles matter too including your quads, your hamstrings, your glutes, and biceps. Ample skeletal muscle is associated with hormonal health, neurological health, and longevity, but for most people over the age of 40, they are losing mass with each passing year.
On this week’s show, you’ll meet a physical therapist and strength coach who will help to reduce the fear and friction around lifting heavy things.
Listen & Learn:
- The essential movements: squat, push, pull, hinge, carry
- How squats can actually improve arthritic knees
- How to balance risk vs reward with weights
- The realistic outlook of at-home training
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ABOUT OUR GUEST
Sam Spinelli a doctor of physical therapy and a strength & conditioning coach with experience working with professional and olympic sport athletes ranging from football, hockey, bobsleigh, powerlifting, weightlifting, to ballet.
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| 0:00.0 | Of all the muscles in your body, your heart muscle gets the most attention. |
| 0:07.2 | Whether we're talking about alopathic medical doctors or personal trainers at the gym, |
| 0:11.8 | everyone's been talking about the heart for the past 50 years. |
| 0:15.2 | Why? |
| 0:16.2 | Well because heart disease, heart attacks, cardiovascular illness is a leading cause of death in almost |
| 0:20.0 | every country around the world. |
| 0:21.2 | So obviously we want to focus on the most |
| 0:23.8 | important muscle our heart muscle but turns out that skeletal muscles are |
| 0:28.0 | extremely important as well and that means things like your quads and your |
| 0:32.3 | glutes and your hamstrings and your biceps and |
| 0:34.0 | not just to look strong not just to be able to lift heavy things but that lean |
| 0:38.8 | muscle mass is associated with hormonal balance, with mental clarity, and agility, and with longevity. |
| 0:47.8 | The benefits of carrying healthy lean muscle, more and more research is coming out every single year. |
| 0:54.3 | And on the flip side, when people lose lean muscle, it's a condition called sarcopenia. |
| 0:59.1 | It affects both men and women and usually hits around age 40 and every year after the age of 40 most |
| 1:04.6 | people are losing a little bit of muscle a little bit of muscle by the time |
| 1:07.9 | they reach their 80s many people have lost 50% of their muscle mass which is a |
| 1:12.3 | just a huge, huge physical transformation. |
| 1:15.7 | The good news is that you can build muscle, you can do it relatively simply |
| 1:20.4 | without going hardcore and without becoming a body builder and this is appropriate and important for both men and women |
| 1:26.2 | and it's something that oftentimes in yoga circles is overlooked picking up something heavy |
| 1:34.8 | pushing your own body weight around. On this week's podcast we'll be talking to a physical therapist who's also a strength trainer and |
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