Stop Wasting Time in the Gym: Largest Study Shows Best Practices (#22)

For the last few decades, most doctors highlighted the importance of doing cardio workouts. But over the last 5 to 10 years, it's becoming increasingly clear that resistance training is just as important, if not more important, not only for athletes, but also for anyone who wants to live a long and healthy life. However, between the influencer

hype on the one hand and the ever-changing trends, resistance training has been made so complicated that the most people feel like they need to become an expert or maybe hire one to see any benefits. But finally now, after 17 years of silence, the American College of Sports Medicine has published a major position stand paper, drawing on

137 systematic reviews and data from over 30,000 participants to answer one deceptively simple question: What resistance training actually works best for building muscle, strength, and performance in healthy adults? Now, in this episode, we'll dig into that paper in detail and what it means to build your own routine. Now, my name is Rob

>> and I'm Stephan. We are two biological data scientists passionate about using science and tech to become our best selves and sometimes also our strongest selves. This is episode 21 of the Fit for Science podcast, where we discuss wearables, quantified self, data, and how we apply those to our own life. Before we start talking about resistance

training itself, so what the position stand paper is all about, the training itself as an intervention that a doctor could then sub prescribe to a to a patient or to everyone, let's quickly remind everyone and also ourselves why actually this has emerged as one of the most important pillars of health. Like, why resistance