Dr. Andy Galpin

Not entirely, but almost exclusively, right? I'm not going to be like, I'll run once a week and let's lift some weights. It'd be a terrible training program. Same thing if you said, I want to squat double body weight for the first time ever. All right, great. We're going to be squatting. This is not rocket science, right? That said...

Not entirely, but almost exclusively, right? I'm not going to be like, I'll run once a week and let's lift some weights. It'd be a terrible training program. Same thing if you said, I want to squat double body weight for the first time ever. All right, great. We're going to be squatting. This is not rocket science, right? That said...

When you move past one individual specific goal and you're looking for well-roundedness, I wanna be lean and I wanna have energy and I don't want my joints to hurt and I want, fine, whatever those define you, then we're gonna have a combination of these two things. What you're referring to is what we would often call like a crossover or blocking effect, right?

When you move past one individual specific goal and you're looking for well-roundedness, I wanna be lean and I wanna have energy and I don't want my joints to hurt and I want, fine, whatever those define you, then we're gonna have a combination of these two things. What you're referring to is what we would often call like a crossover or blocking effect, right?

When you move past one individual specific goal and you're looking for well-roundedness, I wanna be lean and I wanna have energy and I don't want my joints to hurt and I want, fine, whatever those define you, then we're gonna have a combination of these two things. What you're referring to is what we would often call like a crossover or blocking effect, right?

Where if you do a bunch of strength training, it's not going to limit your gains in cardiovascular training. Very rarely are lifting weights or plyometrics or power training going to make an endurance athlete worse. Almost always it makes them better. But the opposite isn't true. If you do a bunch of volume conditioning-wise or endurance-wise, this will eventually limit muscle growth, right?

Where if you do a bunch of strength training, it's not going to limit your gains in cardiovascular training. Very rarely are lifting weights or plyometrics or power training going to make an endurance athlete worse. Almost always it makes them better. But the opposite isn't true. If you do a bunch of volume conditioning-wise or endurance-wise, this will eventually limit muscle growth, right?

Where if you do a bunch of strength training, it's not going to limit your gains in cardiovascular training. Very rarely are lifting weights or plyometrics or power training going to make an endurance athlete worse. Almost always it makes them better. But the opposite isn't true. If you do a bunch of volume conditioning-wise or endurance-wise, this will eventually limit muscle growth, right?

Bodybuilders don't run 20 miles a day, very clearly, right? That got blown out of proportion though. And I was as guilty as that many years ago saying the same thing, right? So then this sort of got portrayed as like, hey, if you do any cardio, it's gonna block all your gains. No, it's not. No, it's not at all, right?

Bodybuilders don't run 20 miles a day, very clearly, right? That got blown out of proportion though. And I was as guilty as that many years ago saying the same thing, right? So then this sort of got portrayed as like, hey, if you do any cardio, it's gonna block all your gains. No, it's not. No, it's not at all, right?

Bodybuilders don't run 20 miles a day, very clearly, right? That got blown out of proportion though. And I was as guilty as that many years ago saying the same thing, right? So then this sort of got portrayed as like, hey, if you do any cardio, it's gonna block all your gains. No, it's not. No, it's not at all, right?

If you're trying to maximize strength, and I mean like really maximize it, not get stronger, I mean like set a world record, get the strongest you've ever been in your life, then you probably don't want to waste a lot of your energy and your recovery capacity on running miles. or swimming miles. Like that just makes a lot of sense.

If you're trying to maximize strength, and I mean like really maximize it, not get stronger, I mean like set a world record, get the strongest you've ever been in your life, then you probably don't want to waste a lot of your energy and your recovery capacity on running miles. or swimming miles. Like that just makes a lot of sense.

If you're trying to maximize strength, and I mean like really maximize it, not get stronger, I mean like set a world record, get the strongest you've ever been in your life, then you probably don't want to waste a lot of your energy and your recovery capacity on running miles. or swimming miles. Like that just makes a lot of sense.

Save all your energy so that you can truly go in, put a maximum effort in. Any amount of energy you don't have in recovery that you wasted on the treadmill takes away from that goal, right? The same thing for muscle growth. But does that mean you can't jog a couple of miles here and there? Of course you can.

Save all your energy so that you can truly go in, put a maximum effort in. Any amount of energy you don't have in recovery that you wasted on the treadmill takes away from that goal, right? The same thing for muscle growth. But does that mean you can't jog a couple of miles here and there? Of course you can.

Save all your energy so that you can truly go in, put a maximum effort in. Any amount of energy you don't have in recovery that you wasted on the treadmill takes away from that goal, right? The same thing for muscle growth. But does that mean you can't jog a couple of miles here and there? Of course you can.

Energy expenditure is a huge component to it. There is a number of review articles that have been published on this My colleague and friend, Dr. Kevin Murak at Arkansas and Jimmy Bagley at San Francisco State published a great one. And it basically said total volume, overall energy intake, the type of exercise you're doing.

Energy expenditure is a huge component to it. There is a number of review articles that have been published on this My colleague and friend, Dr. Kevin Murak at Arkansas and Jimmy Bagley at San Francisco State published a great one. And it basically said total volume, overall energy intake, the type of exercise you're doing.

Energy expenditure is a huge component to it. There is a number of review articles that have been published on this My colleague and friend, Dr. Kevin Murak at Arkansas and Jimmy Bagley at San Francisco State published a great one. And it basically said total volume, overall energy intake, the type of exercise you're doing.