Dr. Vonda Wright
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We have X amount of bumper plates.
How much weight do you want to gain?
Do you do you want to work with someone to, you know, help you build that mass?
And this is where the intensity part, where Dr. Rai is talking about seeing the Ignite class and everyone's in that moderate intensity all the time.
With moderate intensity, you don't have the post-exercise anti-inflammatory response.
So if we're trying to build muscle and we're trying to dampen inflammation, if we're always doing this moderate intensity cardio, then we're not, one, going to be building the muscle we want, and two, we're going to have this baseline elevation of total body inflammation.
So we need to mix it up and have that precedence on being muscle-centric and building that muscle.
One, to help with aesthetics.
I mean, that's the byproduct of lifting weights.
You tend to look better.
But it's more than that.
We see it improves brain health because of the neuroconnections and the neuroplasticity of the brain.
Sleep, mood.
All of those things.
All things.
You get an incredible parasympathetic response when you've done it.
a significant heavy lifting session or a sprint interval session, which you don't get with that moderate intensity cardiovascular work.
Fracture.
Yep.
And then we finish it with some jump training.