Tegan
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763 appearances
7 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 9 Jun
Tegan’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Is doing a Pilates class, which is muscle focused, as good as doing like weightlifting?
So you mentioned there things like balance, you're not falling over as much, maybe as you get older, this idea of frailty, you want to be able to catch yourself if you start to fall, you want to be able to open a door, open a jar, have that base level of muscle strength and stave off that muscle decline that you're talking about.
And then what we've got in Ryan's question is this idea of progressive exercise.
What do we know about maintaining a baseline as your body's aging versus kind of kicking it up a notch and building strength progressively?
It's funny that someone like Ryan is asking us this question because I think Ryan is probably an outlier in the fact that he's getting to a stage where he's not sure how to progress further.
What we know is that most Australians don't meet the physical activity requirements.
So for most of us, this conversation is about starting where you are and then progressing from there.
But if you're Ryan and you've already kind of progressed a lot, where is that end point?
Like,
surely you're not going to get to a stage where you're like lifting, you just keep adding a couple of kilos a week until you're lifting like a thousand kilos because that's just not possible.
It's never going to be a linear curve though, is it?
I think about even professional athletes have like on-seasons and off-seasons.
Like Simone Biles isn't doing those flips and probably lifting whatever weight she lifts all the time.
It's like you're gearing up for the Olympics or you're gearing up for basketball season or whatever.
Watch me display how little I know about sport here.
But...
But I wonder how we would even know this, what kind of studies there could have been on this, because even our most elite sports people aren't always progressing in this linear fashion.
I guess it depends on what your goals are.
If your goals are to have a thick neck, in Ryan's words, then maybe you train that specifically.
But if it is, as I suspect, just wanting to keep your body as healthy as you can, to live as long as you can, to have a life that is functional and has ease in it, like Ryan says, that you can get out of bed in the morning without pain.
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