Dr. Andy Galpin

And the energy thing I just gave you was just a little silly example of saying, hey, look, if we really actually get down to the physiology and science, These are not major differences like people think that they are. So if I'm looking at fitness across the entire spectrum here, I think it's helpful to break it up into three global areas.

And the energy thing I just gave you was just a little silly example of saying, hey, look, if we really actually get down to the physiology and science, These are not major differences like people think that they are. So if I'm looking at fitness across the entire spectrum here, I think it's helpful to break it up into three global areas.

If you can't tell by this point in the show, I'm a teacher, so I like systems and numbers. Yeah, it's great. Number one, what you laid out when you said walking 10,000 steps, I will bucket that into physical activity. This is human movement. We should have a default state of human movement, right?

If you can't tell by this point in the show, I'm a teacher, so I like systems and numbers. Yeah, it's great. Number one, what you laid out when you said walking 10,000 steps, I will bucket that into physical activity. This is human movement. We should have a default state of human movement, right?

Whether this is walking, standing, playing with our kids, gardening, if you're in a labor and you have a physical, fantastic. So if you're listening to this and you're thinking, my lifestyle is really active because I'm a construction worker or I'm a nurse and I'm walking up okay, you probably don't need to go out of your way to do a whole bunch of low intensity cardiovascular exercise.

Whether this is walking, standing, playing with our kids, gardening, if you're in a labor and you have a physical, fantastic. So if you're listening to this and you're thinking, my lifestyle is really active because I'm a construction worker or I'm a nurse and I'm walking up okay, you probably don't need to go out of your way to do a whole bunch of low intensity cardiovascular exercise.

And you could, but if we're trying to get really efficient and saying kind of what's my minimal viable option here, I could say, if we got to give one up, let's give that one up because you're getting your 10,000 or 15 or 20,000 steps. If you've ever paid attention to a teacher's My wife spent 17 years as a preschool special ed teacher.

And you could, but if we're trying to get really efficient and saying kind of what's my minimal viable option here, I could say, if we got to give one up, let's give that one up because you're getting your 10,000 or 15 or 20,000 steps. If you've ever paid attention to a teacher's My wife spent 17 years as a preschool special ed teacher.

Her step count was outrageous because her whole life was just going three steps at a time, trying to keep a kid from like doing something really naughty or dangerous or whatever. So there's a lot of professions that are even outside of a true like construction jobs that get a lot of physical activity. They don't realize it. So that person, I'm going to go, we're good there.

Her step count was outrageous because her whole life was just going three steps at a time, trying to keep a kid from like doing something really naughty or dangerous or whatever. So there's a lot of professions that are even outside of a true like construction jobs that get a lot of physical activity. They don't realize it. So that person, I'm going to go, we're good there.

Maybe we're going to go float on category two, which is, we'll just call this structured cardiovascular exercise. This is intentionally going to work out. This could be intervals. It could be swimming. It could be pickleball, sports, wrestling, like any number of things. It could be higher intensity stuff or even lower intensity stuff, but you're going to work out, right?

Maybe we're going to go float on category two, which is, we'll just call this structured cardiovascular exercise. This is intentionally going to work out. This could be intervals. It could be swimming. It could be pickleball, sports, wrestling, like any number of things. It could be higher intensity stuff or even lower intensity stuff, but you're going to work out, right?

Heart rate's going to be much higher here. You're probably going to break a sweat or something like that. I hope you're not breaking a sweat walking. It's physical activity, right? So if those things help you kind of understand the general category of number two, that's what we're after.

Heart rate's going to be much higher here. You're probably going to break a sweat or something like that. I hope you're not breaking a sweat walking. It's physical activity, right? So if those things help you kind of understand the general category of number two, that's what we're after.

So if we go back to that nurse or that teacher and we're thinking, okay, we're good over there, but we still need to get one to two days a week, most likely, of this structured cardiovascular training. If we want to make it simple, give me one day where we get a really high heart rate, I'll call it max.

So if we go back to that nurse or that teacher and we're thinking, okay, we're good over there, but we still need to get one to two days a week, most likely, of this structured cardiovascular training. If we want to make it simple, give me one day where we get a really high heart rate, I'll call it max.

It doesn't necessarily need to literally be 100%, but it's going to have to be well past comfort zone. One day a week is all we really need up there. It doesn't have to be a long time. I don't care the method you pick. I don't care the machine you go on. If you want to run sprints, I'm all for it. You want to swing kettlebells to do it, whatever. Great.

It doesn't necessarily need to literally be 100%, but it's going to have to be well past comfort zone. One day a week is all we really need up there. It doesn't have to be a long time. I don't care the method you pick. I don't care the machine you go on. If you want to run sprints, I'm all for it. You want to swing kettlebells to do it, whatever. Great.

What I'm looking at is did we get that node knocked off? Yes, we got high heart rate up there. Cool. Category three is more of our traditional strength training thing. And you asked a little bit of a question earlier, but why is that different? Why is it not the same? Why isn't the walking and the higher intensity? I did sprints. My legs are tired and sore. Why is that not strength training?

What I'm looking at is did we get that node knocked off? Yes, we got high heart rate up there. Cool. Category three is more of our traditional strength training thing. And you asked a little bit of a question earlier, but why is that different? Why is it not the same? Why isn't the walking and the higher intensity? I did sprints. My legs are tired and sore. Why is that not strength training?