GUEST SERIES | Dr. Andy Galpin: Optimal Protocols to Build Strength & Grow Muscles
Huberman Lab
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🗓️ 25 January 2023
⏱️ 279 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Hubertman Lab guest series where I and an expert guest discuss science and science based tools for everyday life. |
| 0:08.1 | I'm Andrew Hubertman and I'm a professor of neurobiology and ophthalmology at Stanford School of Medicine. |
| 0:13.8 | Today marks the second episode in the six episode series with Dr. Andy Galpin, a professor of kinesiology at Cal State University Fullerton |
| 0:21.9 | and one of the foremost worlds experts on the science and applications of methods to increase strength hypertrophy and endurance. |
| 0:28.7 | Today's episode is all about how to increase strength, speed and hypertrophy of muscles. |
| 0:35.2 | Professor Dr. Andy Galpin, great to be back. |
| 0:39.0 | Last episode you told us about the nine specific adaptations that exercise can induce everything from strength and hypertrophy to endurance, muscular endurance, so on and so forth. |
| 0:48.8 | And you gave us this incredible toolkit of fit tests for each of those adaptations so that people can assess them for themselves. |
| 0:56.9 | And then of course improve on each and every one of them if they choose. |
| 1:00.7 | By the way, people can access that information simply like going to the first episode in this series with you and it's all there in time stamped and I highly recommend people do that. |
| 1:10.6 | Today we're talking about strength and hypertrophy. |
| 1:12.9 | And so right out the gate, I just want to ask you why should people think about and train for strength and hypertrophy? |
| 1:20.3 | And that question is of course directed towards those that are trying to get stronger and grow bigger muscles. |
| 1:25.6 | But I know that many people out there perhaps have not thought about the benefits of strength and hypertrophy training and how beneficial it can be, not just for people that want to get bigger biceps, etc. |
| 1:37.6 | But that have other goals, longevity goals and health goals unrelated to what most people associate with hypertrophy. |
| 1:45.6 | So what are the benefits of training for strength and hypertrophy for the everyday person, for the athlete, for the recreational, exercise or and so on? |
| 1:54.6 | There's a wonderful saying, I think it was Bill Barramon, the founder, one of the founders of Nike and he always said, if you have a body or an athlete. |
| 2:01.6 | And I think that's very important for people to understand because one of the major disservices we've done in this field is convinced people that things like strength training are for athletes or for growing bigger muscles. |
| 2:14.6 | And cardiovascular training are for things like fat loss and heart health. |
| 2:19.6 | And that is a tremendous disservice because it puts a lot of unnecessary barriers and leads to a lot of false assumptions and therefore poor actions. |
| 2:29.6 | A classic example of this are people who are resistant to strength training because they don't want to put on too much muscle. |
| 2:36.6 | People who only perform one type of exercise because they want say fat loss or they're in it for long, jevvy and health and they're not worried about being an athlete. |
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