Dr Norman Swan
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26,995 appearances
288 recordings
3 series
first heard Apr 2006
last heard 15 Sep
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And we also need to separate in the evidence.
Elite sports people from you and me.
History of humans.
Or picking on a Saturday afternoon if you're playing football.
But if you go to the gym, there's certainly a lot of people there who are trying to body sculpt, improve their shape, either artificially through drugs or through the uh training regime.
And you can see their training regime, they're they've got their
phone out in front of them and they're not looking at Instagram, they're looking at their you know what they're doing.
How many reps?
They're counting it and counting the reps and the weights and what have you.
Whereas I tend to shamble in and I can't remember the weight that I had on the leg stretching in my quad machine.
And it takes me a couple of goes to work out where I was at.
Oh yeah, that's where I was at.
That feels right.
And then you you work on it from there.
So we'll come back to then what the story is for you, me, and maybe even Sam
Mm-mm.
Now, we need to refer people back to a previous watch that rash that we did on muscle training and some of the myths that are attached to muscle training.
So there's a myth, for example, that you need to tear muscle fibers in order to get muscle hypertrophy.
Muscle hypertrophy is in fact quite hard to achieve, but really what you should be trying to aim for is muscle strength and improving muscle strength.
So there's no evidence really, very, very little evidence that tearing your muscles causing pain produces a better effect than training which avoids the pain.
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