Dr. Andy Galpin

So intentional playing of music generally will give you a small benefit in muscle growth.

Mechanism there being obvious, like you probably are happier, you're probably training more, probably training harder.

The type of music doesn't seem to matter.

that much seems to be pretty independent whatever you want like you want death metal cool you want to play jazz cool really it doesn't seem to matter that much it doesn't have to be the only thing you'll kind of see here is tempo generally higher tempo better like you don't want to be down slow i don't know like what those beats would be actually but anyways pastor higher tempo stuff would would uh generally be what you're looking at we actually ran a study in my lab years ago

Or we had professional drummers come in.

This is totally unrelated.

But we ran a bunch of metabolic equivalents.

We put them on a metabolic cart and looked at VO2 max during drumming of a bunch of different songs and things like that and looked at the caloric expenditure.

But yeah, nonetheless, music, pretty good idea for most people.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Rhodiola has been around for a long time.

I've probably been using it

know at least a decade or more it was always hard to get and you were like scared of where you're going to get it from kind of thing you don't really know now we have enough data on it there's quality providers NSF certified places and such um

More research is coming out muscle endurance in terms of like how many repetitions can you do of a, you know, 30 reps versus 35 reps, like that kind of muscular endurance.

And then we're seeing benefits.

Otherwise, Andrew talks a lot about like he feels cognitive stuff from it.

I don't really personally there, but to each their own.

How's it working?

Nobody knows.