This week on Barbell Shrugged, we visit the human performance labs at Cal State Fulton to discuss the latest sports signs with our longtime friend Dr. Andy Galpin.

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Welcome everybody to a very, very smart looking episode, Barbell Shrugged Podcasts on Chris Moore here. Doug Larson across the lab, tangible from me, and his very dirty lab doctor, Dr. Doug Larson today.

CTP behind camera number one on Mike this episode. Charlotte, hello dear behind camera number two. For like the 800th time on this show, Barbell Shrugged OG, if there ever was what Dr. Andy Galpin, what a real doctor.

Show Dr. Andy Galpin. Yeah, actual PhD in scientific credentials and whatnot. Andy, can you before we could go and tell us where the hell we're at while we were in these fancy outfits and goggles on our head. What's going on?

So you are standing in my biochemistry and molecular exercise physiology lab. Any big words long to take you to learn how to say that. You know, I was like, here's a grass school. My entire PhD thesis was on that lab name.

Oh, what a nice part. Yeah. What are you doing here? So my lab is a part of the Center for Sport Performance. So our entire goal and mission is to figure out performance.

So if it's not giving us an answer about actual exercise and human performance, we're not interested. Center for sport performance, not the center for sick old animals or cells or like that. It's about sport performance.

So you're going to make ourselves look really cool and smart. Yeah, I mean, here's our general idea. We want to use physiology. We want to use chemistry. We want to use science to figure out performance.

We're not interested in doing the opposite. In fact, most labs like this in the world are going to be doing the opposite. So they're going to be using exercise to study chemistry or exercise to study physiology.

We want to know about performance. So I want to know what makes you bigger faster, stronger, and I want to figure it out from the inside. And that's really what we're doing. So we're a muscle centered research facility. So we take biopsies. We're looking at performance things just from a perspective from inside the cell.

They do want to break into like really what the basic science of your approach you're applying here and how you're testing ideas and new hypotheses and how you're putting the data into place to help people out.

Yeah. So we really have a gamut of laboratories in our entire center. So we've got the human performance lab. All right. This is where we're going to measure force production. Strength, vertical jump. All right. So we're doing all the really performance based things in there.

The next sort of lab over is a little bit of science with a little bit of performance. So this is our exercise physics lab.

We're going to be doing exercise performance type of stuff, but we're going to be adding in maybe blood work collecting ventilation gases, things like that. So a little bit more sciencey.

A little more fancy. Yeah. But still you're going to do a VO2 max test or you're going to cycle to exhaustion on an aerodyne or something. Yeah.

Over here is sort of the other end of the spectrum where we're doing all of our chemical analysis over here. We've got a like a million dollar laser microscope, a couple of floors below us.

We're looking at muscle at the most detailed level possible. And again, the big picture here is trying to use all three of our laboratories and our general approach to sciences.

Let's do whatever we need to do to figure out performance.

We're trying to go with everything.

So early.

Okay.

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