Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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So Norman, we had a Mother's Day picnic on the weekend and my nephew told me a joke that I would like to share with you. What musical instrument does a doctor play?
I don't know. What musical instrument does a doctor play?
The organ. I thought it was so cute. My first thought was like, I can't wait to tell Norman.
Very good. Very good. I'm chuckling internally. Sure. I'm having a big chuckle.
You're playing your internal organs. Yes.
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Chapter 2: What is progressive exercise and why is it important?
Well, they're down to same day knee replacements.
Right. In the 40s, it was like six to nine months. And if you remember anything about the 1940s, it was a time where a lot of people were having orthopedic surgeries because they were returned soldiers. So it was a time when there was a lot of demand for reconstructive and orthopedic surgery. And there was this huge backlog as these soldiers were coming back. This is in the States.
We're coming back from war. And then they've had these long waiting lists to be treated because people were in hospital for such a long time. And there was a doctor who was doing the rounds at that time, Thomas DeLorme, and he thought it wasn't the doctor shortage that was causing the backlog. It was this need for a more efficient rehabilitation scheme.
Because at the time, rehab basically looked like rest, heat, and high repetitions of exercises with very little resistance. And the idea behind them was just to get the blood back into the muscle rather than building the muscle itself.
Because there was a theory then that if actually you worked too hard, it was bad for your heart.
Well, it's funny because that was the saying of a very famous media doctor, Norman. He was a syndicated newspaper columnist. We're talking about Dr. William Brady. And he said, yeah, extreme effort was no good in exercise for the heart. And just like in general, it just wasn't, it wasn't seen to be healthy.
Yeah. And the whole idea was it was good to go to bed, just lie in your bed.
look, you know, I'm not going to argue with that. However, it seems that the evidence is not in my favour because this man, Thomas Stallone, came along and his backstory was that he had had rheumatic fever when he was a kid and he was sent to bed, like you said, and he lost a lot of muscle in that time and got very, very underweight and thin and weak.
But while he was lying in bed, he was reading Strength and Health magazine, which at that time in the 20s and 30s was, you know,
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Chapter 3: How can I diversify my exercise routine for better results?
It's like Charles Atlas. Don't be a 90-pound weakling and have people kick sand in your face.
Yeah, those flexing men with their big biceps. So DeLorme was like, yes, this is my future. I want to be a flexing bicep man. And so when he got out of bed after being sufficiently rehabilitated from rheumatic fever, and he was told because of that that his heart was weak and that he wouldn't be able to do a lot of exercise at any point in his life.
And he pretty much set out to prove his doctors wrong and became a doctor himself and got super into weightlifting. He was bench pressing, he was deadlifting, he was breaking all sorts of records. He was from Alabama and one of the local newspapers dubbed him Bama Hercules because of how he looked.
DeLorme was ripped.
He was certainly ripped. So basically this is what he's sort of entering into the medical profession with as his history, his own experience of rehabbing himself. And then he's seeing this backlog of people with injuries, orthopaedic surgeries, realising that the sort of rehab exercises they were doing didn't kind of gel with what his experience had been.
And so he started trying to give people heavier exercises to do instead and started getting good results. And it's fascinating to sort of see what he came up with and realise if you've ever done a session with a personal trainer or a weights class or asked ChatGPT to design your weights program.
It's exactly what DeLorme did all these years ago.
It's basically that. It's three rounds of about 10 reps and add weight as you get stronger. It's crazy to me because I love going and lifting up heavy things and putting them down again. The stuff he was developing in the 40s and 50s is still what we're using today.
And it's been supplemented by more active research, which is good. And it's shown that it's actually not bad for the heart. It's pretty good for the heart.
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Chapter 4: What are the benefits of increasing weights versus repetitions?
But, you know, you don't have to look like Charles Atlas.
But if you want to, I endorse that because... You've got a thing about Charles Atlas, haven't you? No, no, I just think it would be fun to recreate one of those old-timey magazine covers, just because it's fun. You have to wear leopard skin, though.
You do, and you have to go down to the beach and kick somebody in the face.
Ryan, thank you so much for the question. We love that you asked it. I hope that you're in the gym right now lifting a slightly heavier weight than you lifted last week. If you want to email us, you can. Our email address is thatrash at abc.net.au. Boring you, Norman. Oh, I thought I was boring you, but then I realised you were providing the perfect setup for our mailbag this week, Norman.
Yeah, I've just got off a plane for 30 hours in a plane, so the yawning was not entirely... Yeah, but you never bore me, Tegan.
No.
Well, I'm now contaged by you because yawning is contagious, as we discussed in our live show that you would have heard in the feed recently. And a lot of people have emailed us about it. Actually, Norman, people have come up to me as well and tapped me on the shoulder and said, Tegan, I couldn't stop yawning while I was listening to the yawning episode.
It was a real problem. As long as you didn't fall asleep. Anyway, we've got, you know, what's that rashers from around the world writing in?
So Rebecca is in Washington, D.C., saying, I'm standing in my kitchen in Washington, D.C., listening to the latest episode of What's That Rash, and I can't stop yawning. I started yawning almost the second time the word yawn was used. What's worse, this is the second time I've started this podcast. I had to put it away earlier on my first attempt.
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Chapter 5: How has the understanding of muscle strength evolved over time?
And Chris has written in.
Okay, so Chris says, I just listened to your yawning episode with over-ear noise suppressing headphones. Didn't yawn once, but I did many deep inhales and long exhales.
Ah, you were cheating, Chris.
You were cheating. Yeah, otherwise known as a yawn. Chris says, anyway, after 20 minutes, I took off the headphones and I had a bout of yawning, half a dozen in five minutes. So I started playing around with it for the next hour. Headphones on. Never yawned. Headphones off. Eventually started yawning again. Put headphones on. Yawning stopped, but started the deep inhale, exhale again.
Felt like I wanted to yawn, but I couldn't. Chris, what is going on? Chris is asking, are the ears involved in breathing and do the headphones affect that?
So this is where we need the help of all you What's That Rashers. Tell us your headphone stories.
We need an N equals more than Chris, please.
And Tegan and I are both yawning here and we're both wearing headphones.
I am, but they're not noise cancelling, so.
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