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Starting Strength Radio

Strength Training and Mental Health

Starting Strength Radio

Mark Rippetoe

Training, Fitness & Nutrition, Barbell, Health, Fitness, Strength

4.5768 Ratings

🗓️ 11 September 2018

⏱️ 20 minutes

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0:00.0

Welcome back to the podcast.

0:12.0

My name is Rib.

0:15.0

And we're sitting here today with our friend David Puder.

0:18.0

David wrote a very good article for the website last year,

0:22.6

having to do with strength training and its effects on depression.

0:27.6

And David's in town for our seminar this weekend and we snagged him out of the front,

0:34.6

brought him back here, set him down in front of these bright lights, and are now going to extract information out of the front, brought him back here, set him down in front of these bright lights,

0:39.6

and are now going to extract information out of him, whether he wants us to or not.

0:44.7

So, Dave, thanks for being here.

0:48.9

Thanks for coming.

0:50.6

So what, since you have written the article, first, let's briefly go over the gist of the article, because 98% of these people don't know what the hell I'm talking about, because nobody reads the articles we put. That's why we put them up several times, right? So recap the gist of the article, and then let's see what's happened since then. So the gist of the article and then let's see what's happened since then so the gist of the article is

1:14.6

well when i let's say when i was going through residency which was like eight years ago i read a book

1:21.8

called spark and it was a book about the mental health benefits of cardio. And briefly, you're a psychiatrist.

1:28.4

I'm a psychiatrist now.

1:29.3

Right.

1:30.3

And so I was really interested in how exercise positively influenced mood.

1:36.8

But for the longest time, I thought it was just cardio.

1:39.2

Right.

1:40.0

And so when I got in this-

1:41.0

Everybody does.

1:42.0

When I got in starting strike-

1:43.0

Exercise equals cardio.

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