The best exercise to improve your health

ZOE Science & Nutrition

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Nutrition, Science, Health & Fitness, Education

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🗓️ 11 January 2024

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Professor Andy Galpin brings you evidence-based exercise regimes to make a fitter future achievable for everyone. Most people need to do more exercise. Despite us being aware of its obvious benefits to our health, we can still struggle to get active. So, what’s holding us back? A persistent injury, lack of free time, or simply not knowing how to get started? Dr. Andy Galpin believes it’s always possible to incorporate exercise. In today’s episode of ZOE Science & Nutrition, Jonathan and Andy ask: How can you improve your fitness to live a long, healthy life? 🌱 Try our new plant based wholefood supplement - Daily 30 *Naturally high in copper which contributes to normal energy yielding metabolism and the normal function of the immune system Learn how your body responds to food 👉 zoe.com/podcast for 10% off Follow ZOE on Instagram Timecodes: 00:00 - Introduction 1:03 - Quickfire round 4:16 - Definition of kinesiology, fitness, strength training, and cardio 11:57 - How do you measure fitness? 13:37 - Fitness and its impact on longevity 18:41 - Strength and its impact on longevity 23:06 - Strength training and its link to brain health 31:22 - Lowering blood pressure with strength training 40:15 - How to start strength training 45:07 - Summary and outro Mentioned in today’s episode: Demand Coupling Drives Neurodegeneration: A Model of Age-Related Cognitive Decline and Dementia. (2022) from Cells Have feedback or a topic you'd like us to cover? Let us know here Episode transcripts are available here

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0:00.0	Welcome to Zoe, science and nutrition, where world-leading scientists explain how their research can improve your health. As we get older, our bodies get progressively weaker, putting us at risk of frailty and even early death from diseases like dementia and heart disease.
0:24.0	That's why staying physically active is so important for longevity.
0:28.0	But what is the best type of exercise to keep us fit?
0:31.0	And can it really prolong our healthy years?
0:34.0	Professor Andy Galpin joins us today to demystify a vast array of options
0:41.6	and to help us choose the best exercises to support our health.
0:45.0	Andy is a professor of kinesiology at California State University Fullerton and an expert
0:51.0	in exercise in human performance science.
0:53.0	He's also the author of the best-selling book, Unplucked.
0:57.0	Andy, thank you for joining me today.
1:04.0	That's a pleasure to be here.
1:06.0	So why don't we start with a quick fire round of questions from our listeners?
1:10.0	And this is a tradition now on the show, and have some quite strict rules which we know professors always find a little challenging and the rules are you can say yes or no or if you have to maybe or even a one-sentence answer if you really have to.
1:25.0	Are you up for it?
1:26.0	Yeah, actually, I have to tell you.
1:28.0	I like this.
1:30.0	All right, let me start.
1:32.0	Is there one correct fitness routine for all of us?
1:36.0	Yeah. Are most of us doing the wrong exercises to maximize our health?
1:41.0	No. Okay? We had a great email from one of our listeners
1:45.0	saying that she's always gone to the gym,
1:46.9	but now that she's post-menopausal,
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