Conference Rooms Impair Your Mind, Get a “Toned” Look, and Overcome Friendship Jealousy
Curiosity Weekly
Warner Bros. Discovery
4.6 • 935 Ratings
🗓️ 15 April 2019
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
Learn about why a “toned” appearance has nothing to do with muscle tone; how meetings literally impair your mind, and what you can do about it; and, how to be less jealous when your friend excels at your “thing.”
In this podcast, Cody Gough and Ashley Hamer discuss the following stories from Curiosity.com to help you get smarter and learn something new in just a few minutes:
- A "Toned" Appearance Has Nothing to Do With Muscle Tone — https://curiosity.im/2UsuajF
- An Hour in a Conference Room Produces Enough CO2 to Impair Your Mind — https://curiosity.im/2Uzsi96
- Here's Why It Hurts When a Friend Excels at Your "Thing" — https://curiosity.im/2UswS8P
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, we're here from Curiosity.com to help you get smarter in just a few minutes. |
| 0:04.8 | I'm Cody Gough. |
| 0:05.6 | And I'm Ashley Hamer. |
| 0:06.7 | Today you learn about why a toned appearance has nothing to do with muscle tone, |
| 0:10.8 | how meetings literally impair your mind and what you can do about it, and how to be less |
| 0:15.5 | jealous when your friend excels at your thing. |
| 0:18.5 | Let's excel at some curiosity. |
| 0:20.4 | If you think you can change the shape of your muscles with different styles of exercise, |
| 0:25.0 | then I've got some bad news for you. |
| 0:27.0 | A toned appearance has nothing to do with muscle tone. |
| 0:31.0 | You know the idea that lifting heavy weight with fewer reps |
| 0:34.0 | will make your muscles big and bulky and lifting a lightweight with more reps will |
| 0:38.1 | make your muscles long, lean and toned? Well science says that's not a thing. The true definition of the word tone is the constant |
| 0:46.7 | involuntary state of partial contraction your muscles are in during rest. But in pop culture, |
| 0:52.1 | a toned muscle is one that's attractively firm and defined, but not overly large or bulging. |
| 0:58.0 | The thing is, how firm and defined your muscles look and feel have nothing to do with your muscles |
| 1:03.4 | only grow or shrink, they strengthen or weaken. |
| 1:07.2 | They don't get softer or firmer or longer or leaner for that matter. |
| 1:11.2 | What makes them feel soft and look undefined is body |
| 1:14.9 | fat. If you lose enough weight, you'll have a six pack regardless of whether you |
| 1:19.2 | actually have strong ad muscles that you've been working out. And there are people with super strong core muscles |
| 1:24.7 | who certainly don't look like they have a six-pack, |
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