Andy Galpin | Building a Strong Heart @drandygalpin | Uploaded June 2024 | Updated October 2024, 1 hour ago.
In this episode — Building a Strong Heart — you’ll learn all about the special anatomical and physiological characteristics that make your heart the most unique MUSCLE in your entire body, and you’ll learn specific steps you can take to improve your cardiovascular health and VO2 Max.
I cover things like why you breathe, how a heart can keep beating even after it loses nerve innervation (e.g., if it gets pulled out of your chest, Temple of Doom style), why it never gets sore, and how heart function and measures like VO2 Max relate to your short and long-term health and performance.
And, like every episode, I’ll discuss multiple ways to gauge your fitness and how best to improve it. I’ll do this by covering the “Three Is” — Investigate (what and how to measure VO2 Max score), Interpret (are your scores good, bad, terrible, best in world history), and Intervene (how to improve!).
So whether your jam is sports, longevity, physical fitness, or just avoiding death for as long as possible, you all have a heart, so this episode is for you.
Remember, in the words of legendary track coach Bill Bowerman, “If you have a body, you’re an athlete.” And nobody ever complained about their heart performing too well.
I really do my best to keep up with the comments, but given this is the very first installment in our 10-episode season, I’m going to work super hard to respond to all of your questions and comments, and there are far worse ways to spend time on a Wednesday, and I love teaching, so go nuts below!
As always, a million thank you’s to my co-workers at this podcast, RAPID, Vitality, Absolute Rest, BioMolecular Athlete, Anthropy, and elsewhere, my students in the lab, and most importantly, all of you.
The podcast — Perform with Dr. Andy Galpin — can be found on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, across all other podcast platforms, and at performpodcast.com. Enjoy!
In this episode — Building a Strong Heart — you’ll learn all about the special anatomical and physiological characteristics that make your heart the most unique MUSCLE in your entire body, and you’ll learn specific steps you can take to improve your cardiovascular health and VO2 Max.
I cover things like why you breathe, how a heart can keep beating even after it loses nerve innervation (e.g., if it gets pulled out of your chest, Temple of Doom style), why it never gets sore, and how heart function and measures like VO2 Max relate to your short and long-term health and performance.
And, like every episode, I’ll discuss multiple ways to gauge your fitness and how best to improve it. I’ll do this by covering the “Three Is” — Investigate (what and how to measure VO2 Max score), Interpret (are your scores good, bad, terrible, best in world history), and Intervene (how to improve!).
So whether your jam is sports, longevity, physical fitness, or just avoiding death for as long as possible, you all have a heart, so this episode is for you.
Remember, in the words of legendary track coach Bill Bowerman, “If you have a body, you’re an athlete.” And nobody ever complained about their heart performing too well.
I really do my best to keep up with the comments, but given this is the very first installment in our 10-episode season, I’m going to work super hard to respond to all of your questions and comments, and there are far worse ways to spend time on a Wednesday, and I love teaching, so go nuts below!
As always, a million thank you’s to my co-workers at this podcast, RAPID, Vitality, Absolute Rest, BioMolecular Athlete, Anthropy, and elsewhere, my students in the lab, and most importantly, all of you.
The podcast — Perform with Dr. Andy Galpin — can be found on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, across all other podcast platforms, and at performpodcast.com. Enjoy!
