Dr. Andrew Huberman

Before we begin, I'd like to emphasize that this podcast is separate from my teaching and research roles at Stanford.

It is, however, part of my desire and effort to bring zero cost to consumer information about science and science-related tools to the general public.

In keeping with that theme, today's episode does include sponsors.

And now for my discussion with Dr. Brett Contreras.

Dr. Brett Contreras, welcome.

I've been following your content for a long time now, and I and many other people are super interested in how they can resistance train best for the purpose of getting stronger.

And let's admit it, most people who do some resistance training probably want some hypertrophy, some muscle growth,

perhaps not in their entire body, some people do, but in specific body parts.

They want to grow bigger arms.

They want to grow bigger glutes.

They want to grow bigger calves.

That seems to be a theme nowadays.

Glutes and calves seem to be the new biceps, as they say.

So let's start off with the basics.

Let's take the typical, if there were one, there isn't one, but let's imagine the typical woman or man in their...

30s or 40s who's never really done any resistance training, maybe done some yoga, some running, maybe did a sport in high school, maybe not.

And they are interested in building some muscle to shape their body the way they'd like to shape it.

What is the frequency of workouts that you could give us kind of across the board?

What's too many?

What's too few?