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Hello and welcome to Zoe Recap, where each week we find the best bits from one of our podcast episodes to help you improve your health.

Today we're talking about strength.

Building muscle doesn't have to mean lifting heavy weights in a fancy gym.

In fact, you can do it from the comfort of your own living room.

No expensive memberships, no extra long workouts, no excuses.

To prove it, I asked human performance expert, Professor Andy Galpin, to design an at-home strength session for someone who's never lifted a weight before.

It's quick, cheap, and a surefire way to add years to your health span.

If you're new to strength training, this episode is the perfect place to start.

I'd like to paint a picture that this is my sister that we're helping to guide.

And my sister has got into running recently.

So she's got a lot more serious about her exercise, but she's not doing any weight.

She's never done any weight.

She's never done weights from the day she was born as far I'm aware until today.

And so it's like, it's really alien.

And I'm hoping she's gonna listen to this and be like, you know what, Andy,

Not only were you really convincing, but now you're going to paint me this picture of how it's something that I can do.

And by the way, you know, she's like working full time and she has young kids.

She definitely doesn't have the time.

If I say you got to go to this gym, which is quite a long way from her house, like that's probably not going to happen.

What should she be doing?