Welcome to the Psychiatry and Psychotherapy Podcast. The podcast to help you in your journey

towards becoming a wise, empathic, genuine and connected mental health professional.

I'm your host, Dr. David Puder, a psychiatrist who splits his time practicing psychopharmacology,

individual and group psychotherapy, medical director of a day treatment program,

medical education research, and teaching residents and medical students.

Alright, welcome back to the podcast. I am joined today with Trent Jones.

He is a starting strength athlete, a barbell athlete, and the purpose of this talk is threefold.

One, we are going to discuss a recent study that came out, a meta-analysis,

that summarizes strength training's effect on depression.

Number two, we're going to talk about his personal story of depression

and kind of how his mood has changed since starting strength training later in life.

And number three, we're going to talk about if you were a complete novice,

or someone who didn't know anything about strength training,

maybe it was like completely foreign to you. What would you do first? Where would you start?

How would you go about maybe adding this component into your life?

So, Trent, welcome to the podcast.

Hey, thanks for having me. Glad to be here.

I don't think I fully introduced you well enough.

I think I would introduce you as the person who helps make this podcast happen.

I don't think I could do it without you. He is my editor, and he's visiting from Texas.

And so we had an amazing dinner.

Oh, so good. Yeah, I'm going to do my best not to fall asleep,

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