Variable Resistance: The Ultimate Muscle Hack – Dr. John Jaquish : 1136
The Human Upgrade with Dave Asprey
Dave Asprey
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🗓️ 20 February 2024
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
Today we're talking about testosterone replacement and unpacking the novel concepts of progressive overload and variable resistance training—both methods to gain, and keep, muscle mass in your body without living in the gym.
I’m joined by strength expert, entrepreneur, past guest of the show, and PhD, John Jaquish. John has spent years researching and developing improved approaches to health. Inventor of X3, a technology that is proven to develop muscle much faster than conventional weight lifting with the lowest risk of joint injury, Dr. Jaquish’s methods are used in training the world's most elite athletes as well as Olympians.
Aligning with the most basic tenet of biohacking, if you can achieve all of your physical or athletic goals in half the time of your competitors, why not explore the option? John is as gracious as he is informed in this one, detailing the benefits of variable resistance training and indulging me in a super deep dive into diet and nutrition experimentation, testosterone replacement therapy, and efficient muscle growth.
You’ll learn what he eats every day to look as good as he does. You’ll get repetition-count-specific recommendations on ultra-quick workout routines. And you’ll learn the very surprising amount of carbohydrates I ingest every single day (a number that will shock many of you).
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(00:02:39) Masterclass on Efficient Muscle Building
(00:16:43) How are Shaolin Monks & Gymnasts So Strong?
(00:23:46) Testosterone Replacement Therapy (TRT)
(00:38:40) How Protein Impacts Muscle Growth
(00:47:55) Breakthrough Personal Research on Carbohydrates
(00:58:31) Weight Lifting is a Waste of Time
Resources
Dave Asprey’s NEW Book ‘Smarter Not Harder’ is out now: https://daveasprey.com/books
Website: jaquishbiomedical.com
Instagram: @drjaquish
YouTube: Jaquish Biomedical
Read: Weight Lifting Is a Waste of Time
Read: Osteogenic Loading: A New Modality To Facilitate Bone Density Development
How to Build Strength Faster – John Jaquish, Ph.D. #863
Building Strength Isn’t About Weight Lifting Anymore – John Jaquish, Ph.D. #862
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the human upgrade with Dave Asprey. |
| 0:06.0 | Formerly, Bulletproof Radio. Hi. Asprey. Today we're going to talk about testosterone. We're going to talk about |
| 0:25.7 | something called progressive overload and variable resistance training. In other |
| 0:31.2 | words, how to have muscles that actually look reasonably good without spending more time than is necessary. |
| 0:41.0 | Now you might be a meathead who just loves to spend six hours a day in the gym and you could |
| 0:48.2 | even kind of own with pride the name meathead the way I do I own the word nerd with pride and so we might come from |
| 0:56.2 | different clicks in high school but the end of the day even if you are a meaningfully strong powerlifter or a fitness competitor, |
| 1:06.0 | if you can achieve all of your goals in half the time and use the other time to do something |
| 1:11.6 | you enjoy, even if it's just watching reruns on Netflix, |
| 1:16.4 | there's an argument that wasting your time doing things less effectively isn't a good one. |
| 1:21.3 | That's why I wrote Smarter, not smarter not harder and that's why I'm really motivated. I spent |
| 1:26.5 | 702 hours in the gym over the course of 18 months when I was 300 pounds trying to fix stuff |
| 1:32.2 | and I just did things that didn't work. |
| 1:33.7 | I worked really hard and didn't get results. |
| 1:35.8 | So I've got a guess for you today who has a similar story but he was looking at first to fix a problem in his family and just went really, really, |
| 1:46.7 | I'm going to say off the deep end in the best possible way towards exercise physiology, dedicated years to refining strategies for improving health, |
| 1:57.0 | building bone density. |
| 2:00.0 | He actually has clinical studies showing he can put muscle on faster than lifting rocks on sticks, which is what actually barbells are. |
| 2:10.0 | You'll see some of the most elite athletes and Olympians in the world using what he has and you last |
| 2:16.6 | heard him on the show in episode number 863 in 2021. |
| 2:22.1 | He's written a book with a title that makes me happy. Weightlifting is a waste of time and a more technical one called osteogenic loading. |
| 2:30.0 | If that's not enough, as an intro I'm talking about Dr. John Jagwish. |
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