Dr. Andy Galpin: How to Assess & Improve All Aspects of Your Fitness
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Podcast Summary
In this episode of a 6-part mini-series, Andy Galpin, PhD, a professor of kinesiology at California State University, Fullerton and expert on exercise science, explains the 9 exercise adaptations that directly impact the body and additional benefits of exercise on overall health.
Dr. Galpin seeks to answer the question of how to create a program for optimal endurance, strength, hypertrophy, speed, or any combination of the aformentioned.
Key Takeaways:
There are several major components of physical fitness and infinite methods to achieve physical fitness. The methods are many, but the concepts are few.
If you want to move achieve optimal health, picking one form of exercise won’t be enough
A key hallmark of aging is a selective reduction in fast twitch muscle fibers