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Dr. Andy Galpin

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
9972 total appearances

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Habits and Hustle
Episode 431: Dr. Andy Galpin: Why Fitness Trackers and Bloodwork Are Misleading You

So the people that we coach, whether it's our athletes or our non-athletes, the science we do in my lab, the way that I communicate in the public sphere, it is designed to have somebody be able to come in and say, hey, Andy, I have these goals. I want more mental focus. I want to lose weight. I want to be strong. You tell me the goal.

Habits and Hustle
Episode 431: Dr. Andy Galpin: Why Fitness Trackers and Bloodwork Are Misleading You

So the people that we coach, whether it's our athletes or our non-athletes, the science we do in my lab, the way that I communicate in the public sphere, it is designed to have somebody be able to come in and say, hey, Andy, I have these goals. I want more mental focus. I want to lose weight. I want to be strong. You tell me the goal.

Habits and Hustle
Episode 431: Dr. Andy Galpin: Why Fitness Trackers and Bloodwork Are Misleading You

So the people that we coach, whether it's our athletes or our non-athletes, the science we do in my lab, the way that I communicate in the public sphere, it is designed to have somebody be able to come in and say, hey, Andy, I have these goals. I want more mental focus. I want to lose weight. I want to be strong. You tell me the goal.

Habits and Hustle
Episode 431: Dr. Andy Galpin: Why Fitness Trackers and Bloodwork Are Misleading You

And from my perspective, I'm trying to make sure your physiology aligns with that goal. And so that's why I've had success with NFL players executives, actors, musicians rather, tons of regular people. It's because I'm not focused on that last end of the niche, which is how do I optimize hitting a baseball? Or how do I run the fastest? Or how do I mobilize my big toe the best?

Habits and Hustle
Episode 431: Dr. Andy Galpin: Why Fitness Trackers and Bloodwork Are Misleading You

And from my perspective, I'm trying to make sure your physiology aligns with that goal. And so that's why I've had success with NFL players executives, actors, musicians rather, tons of regular people. It's because I'm not focused on that last end of the niche, which is how do I optimize hitting a baseball? Or how do I run the fastest? Or how do I mobilize my big toe the best?

Habits and Hustle
Episode 431: Dr. Andy Galpin: Why Fitness Trackers and Bloodwork Are Misleading You

And from my perspective, I'm trying to make sure your physiology aligns with that goal. And so that's why I've had success with NFL players executives, actors, musicians rather, tons of regular people. It's because I'm not focused on that last end of the niche, which is how do I optimize hitting a baseball? Or how do I run the fastest? Or how do I mobilize my big toe the best?

Habits and Hustle
Episode 431: Dr. Andy Galpin: Why Fitness Trackers and Bloodwork Are Misleading You

I don't care about that end. What I make sure is that physiology is running at its highest level so that you can then deploy those capabilities however you're defining perform in your unique world. So that's why we've been able to gear our laboratory and our coaching programs in that fashion. And we've had success in so many different areas.

Habits and Hustle
Episode 431: Dr. Andy Galpin: Why Fitness Trackers and Bloodwork Are Misleading You

I don't care about that end. What I make sure is that physiology is running at its highest level so that you can then deploy those capabilities however you're defining perform in your unique world. So that's why we've been able to gear our laboratory and our coaching programs in that fashion. And we've had success in so many different areas.

Habits and Hustle
Episode 431: Dr. Andy Galpin: Why Fitness Trackers and Bloodwork Are Misleading You

I don't care about that end. What I make sure is that physiology is running at its highest level so that you can then deploy those capabilities however you're defining perform in your unique world. So that's why we've been able to gear our laboratory and our coaching programs in that fashion. And we've had success in so many different areas.

Habits and Hustle
Episode 431: Dr. Andy Galpin: Why Fitness Trackers and Bloodwork Are Misleading You

Genetics always matter. They matter for everything, right? There is just no world or reality in which me or you could do any training or modality of any kind and all of a sudden be the top athlete in the world in any sport, right? So clearly genetics matter.

Habits and Hustle
Episode 431: Dr. Andy Galpin: Why Fitness Trackers and Bloodwork Are Misleading You

Genetics always matter. They matter for everything, right? There is just no world or reality in which me or you could do any training or modality of any kind and all of a sudden be the top athlete in the world in any sport, right? So clearly genetics matter.

Habits and Hustle
Episode 431: Dr. Andy Galpin: Why Fitness Trackers and Bloodwork Are Misleading You

Genetics always matter. They matter for everything, right? There is just no world or reality in which me or you could do any training or modality of any kind and all of a sudden be the top athlete in the world in any sport, right? So clearly genetics matter.

Habits and Hustle
Episode 431: Dr. Andy Galpin: Why Fitness Trackers and Bloodwork Are Misleading You

Right? Now, all humans have the same genes. We're 99.9% the same. We all have some very slight variations in one of those allele pairs, one from mom, one from dad. And that's what gives us our unique characteristics, right? So we can all have basically the exact same genome, despite the fact that we are all, a billion of us will never be the same person.

Habits and Hustle
Episode 431: Dr. Andy Galpin: Why Fitness Trackers and Bloodwork Are Misleading You

Right? Now, all humans have the same genes. We're 99.9% the same. We all have some very slight variations in one of those allele pairs, one from mom, one from dad. And that's what gives us our unique characteristics, right? So we can all have basically the exact same genome, despite the fact that we are all, a billion of us will never be the same person.

Habits and Hustle
Episode 431: Dr. Andy Galpin: Why Fitness Trackers and Bloodwork Are Misleading You

Right? Now, all humans have the same genes. We're 99.9% the same. We all have some very slight variations in one of those allele pairs, one from mom, one from dad. And that's what gives us our unique characteristics, right? So we can all have basically the exact same genome, despite the fact that we are all, a billion of us will never be the same person.

Habits and Hustle
Episode 431: Dr. Andy Galpin: Why Fitness Trackers and Bloodwork Are Misleading You

So what that means is, yes, genes are there. Genetic testing for the most part for performance perspectives is almost entirely useless. It doesn't tell us much of anything. Where we become unique, different people is at the next level down, which is what we call the proteome. So your genetics are just a potential to create proteins. What are you actually making? What proteins are made?

Habits and Hustle
Episode 431: Dr. Andy Galpin: Why Fitness Trackers and Bloodwork Are Misleading You

So what that means is, yes, genes are there. Genetic testing for the most part for performance perspectives is almost entirely useless. It doesn't tell us much of anything. Where we become unique, different people is at the next level down, which is what we call the proteome. So your genetics are just a potential to create proteins. What are you actually making? What proteins are made?

Habits and Hustle
Episode 431: Dr. Andy Galpin: Why Fitness Trackers and Bloodwork Are Misleading You

So what that means is, yes, genes are there. Genetic testing for the most part for performance perspectives is almost entirely useless. It doesn't tell us much of anything. Where we become unique, different people is at the next level down, which is what we call the proteome. So your genetics are just a potential to create proteins. What are you actually making? What proteins are made?

Habits and Hustle
Episode 431: Dr. Andy Galpin: Why Fitness Trackers and Bloodwork Are Misleading You

How are they functioning? That's what we're going to measure, right? That's blood work. That is performance testing. That's a hair sample. That's urine, saliva. It's a VO2 max test. Like all of these laboratory tests or emotional tests, like this is all at the level of the protein as a big kind of easy way to say it. So that is what's going to explain your uniqueness.

Habits and Hustle
Episode 431: Dr. Andy Galpin: Why Fitness Trackers and Bloodwork Are Misleading You

How are they functioning? That's what we're going to measure, right? That's blood work. That is performance testing. That's a hair sample. That's urine, saliva. It's a VO2 max test. Like all of these laboratory tests or emotional tests, like this is all at the level of the protein as a big kind of easy way to say it. So that is what's going to explain your uniqueness.