New research shows that cardio might actually improve hypertrophy by improving capitalization

of the skeletal muscle.

In today's session, we're going to take a deeper dive into this fascinating new study,

the title of which is short-term aerobic conditioning prior to resistance training,

augments muscle hypertrophy, and satellite cell content in healthy men and women.

Now what's important to recognize is this study used bilateral movements of the legs,

and they had one leg doing resistance training plus cardio, and another leg just did resistance

training.

And this was over the course of a six week study where the scientists, the investigators

were curious to see if there was any interference effect of aerobic conditioning on the hypertrophy

from the resistance training.

And so they did some isolateral, unilateral leg studies, and just cardio using exercise

bike using one leg.

And in short, what they found is cardio doesn't actually decrease hypertrophy.

It actually increases it by increasing the capillary density and the satellite cells within

the muscle.

It's quite fascinating.

I do want to thank Layne Norton for sharing this study about, I don't know, three or

four weeks ago, and that's how I heard about this, and I downloaded the paper and read

about it, and we're going to talk more about it here because it is quite fascinating.

Because again, many people who are going to the gym, and I get clients who reach out to

me all the time, hey, I'm working out, but I'm not building any muscle, and a lot of these

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