Eccentric Exercise
Just One Thing - with Michael Mosley
BBC
4.6 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 27 April 2022
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Michael reveals how the part of your workout that often feels easier - running downhill after a brutal run up to the peak, or lowering down weights rather than lifting them up - is one of the quickest ways to improve your strength and enhance your workout. It’s the flip side of a lot of movements you’ve already been focused on. To find out more, he speaks to Prof Tony Kay at the University of Northampton who delves into the bizarre benefits of Eccentric Exercise. He reveals why the muscle-lengthening phase of exercise is more effective than the muscle-contracting phase… and how lengthening your muscles is the key to stronger muscles, bones, a healthier heart, and could even help burn more calories than a seemingly tougher workout when you’re finished.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds. |
| 0:02.0 | Hello everyone, it's Michelle Vassage, and welcome to my podcast Rule Breakers. |
| 0:06.0 | But you sit down and be bright. |
| 0:08.0 | Celebrating women's voices. |
| 0:10.0 | You're very welcome to now you're asking with me, Marion Keys Keys and me Tara Flynn. |
| 0:14.8 | This is juicy. No limits, no limits. |
| 0:17.2 | Celebrating women. |
| 0:18.8 | Where to be a woman is the podcast celebrating the best of women's well-being. We're on a quest to find out |
| 0:24.4 | where in the world women are living their best lives. Celebrate yourself. |
| 0:28.8 | Lesson on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:36.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio Podcasts. Here I go. |
| 0:38.0 | We would all like some quick and simple ways to improve our health, but we're bombarded with often conflicting advice. |
| 0:49.0 | So if you were going to do just one thing to improve your mental and physical well being, what should it be? |
| 0:56.3 | Maybe some beetroot to boost your workout, meditation to improve your immune system. |
| 1:03.0 | Or how about a bit of dancing to big up your brain power? |
| 1:07.0 | I'm Dr Michael Mosley, and this is just one thing, |
| 1:11.0 | where each episode we'll explore one thing you can start doing today |
| 1:15.2 | to improve your health or life in ways you might not expect. Now I've just walked briskly up this hill. What a great view. And today I'm going to do something that I don't normally do. I went up the hill walking and I'm going to run run down it and that's because weirdly enough |
| 1:34.4 | running downhill is likely to be better for me than running up it can make me |
| 1:39.7 | physically fitter improve my blood sugars my health, and even give me stronger bones. |
| 1:44.4 | So here I go. |
| 1:47.0 | Go on Terry, keep up. |
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