Welcome to the Huberman Lab podcast where we discuss science and science-based tools for everyday life.

I'm Andrew Huberman, an Emma Professor of Neurobiology and Optomology at Stanford School of Medicine.

Today my guest is Jeff Cavaliere.

Jeff Cavaliere holds a Master of Science in Physical Therapy and is a Certified Strength in Conditioning Specialist.

He did his training at the University of Connecticut stores one of the top five programs in the world in Physical Therapy and Sports Medicine.

I discovered Jeff Cavaliere over 10 years ago from his online content.

His online content includes information about how to train for strength, how to train for hypertrophy, which is muscle growth, how to train for endurance,

as well as how to rehabilitate injuries to avoid muscular imbalances, nutrition and supplementation.

I've always found his content to be incredibly science-based, incredibly clear, sometimes surprising and always incredibly actionable.

It is therefore not surprising that he has one of the largest online platforms for fitness, nutrition, supplementation and injury rehabilitation.

Jeff has also worked with an enormous number of professional athletes and has served as head physical therapist and assistant strength coach for the New York Metz.

Again, the content that Jeff Cavaliere has posted online has been so immensely useful to me over the years.

I was absolutely thrilled to get the chance to sit down with him and ask him about everything from how to train in terms of how to split up the body parts that you train across the week, how to integrate strength training and endurance training, when to stretch, how to stretch.

Indeed, we talked about nutrition, we talked a bit about supplementation, we talked about how to really avoid creating imbalances in muscle and in neural control over muscle.

It's one thing that's really wonderful about Jeff is he really has an understanding of not just how muscles and bones, intendons and ligaments work together, but how the nervous system interfaces with those.

We talked about the mental side of training, including when to bring specific concentration to the muscles that you're training and when to think more about how to move weights through space and think more about the movements overall.

I'm certain that you'll find the conversation that we held to be immensely useful and informative for your fitness practices and also for how you mentally approach fitness in general and how to set up a lifelong fitness practice.

One that will give you the strength that you desire, one that will give you the aesthetic results that you desire, one that will set you up for endurance and cardiovascular health, basically an overall fitness program.

I really feel this is where Jeff Cavaliere shines above and beyond so many of the other PT's and fitness so-called influencers that are out there.

Again, everything is grounded in science, everything is clear and everything is actionable.

And while we do cover an enormous amount of information during today's episode, if you want to dive even deeper into that information, you can go to ATHLEANX.com where you'll find some of Jeff's programs.

You can also find him at ATHLEANX on YouTube. There you will find videos for instance, like how to repair or heal from lower back pain.

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