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Dr. Andy Galpin: Busting Muscle Myths & Hacking Strength | EP 479

Align Podcast

Aaron Alexander

Health & Fitness, Alternative Health, Nutrition

4.8900 Ratings

🗓️ 26 January 2024

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Andy Galpin joins us today on The Align Podcast. He has a master’s degree in Human Movement Sciences and a PhD in Human Bioenergetics, so he shares some incredibly detailed insights throughout this episode.

This conversation goes deep into exercise physiology, the cutting-edge science around muscle growth, how to improve strength, body composition, breathing patterns, and sleep. This conversation is a one-stop shop in all things health and fitness, so get your pen and paper ready!

Very grateful to share such an incredibly insightful interview with you from a kind and brilliant human being such as Dr. Andy Galpin.

Thank you for listening, I hope you enjoy this podcast as much as I did making it.

Be sure to share it with your friends and family, and leave a rating on the podcast if you like it! I would really appreciate it.

Enjoy the genius that is Dr. Andy Galpin. More About Andy: Dr. Andy Galpin is a tenured full Professor at California State University, Fullerton. He is the Co-Director of the Center for Sport Performance and Founder/Director of the Biochemistry and Molecular Exercise Physiology Laboratory. He is a Human Performance scientist with a PhD in Human Bioenergetics and over 100 peer-reviewed publications and presentations.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Lyme Podcast, my name is Aaron Alexander and this is a place that we bring together

0:06.5

the world's leading experts in all things health and wellness to help you optimize your mind,

0:10.0

body and movement. Today's guest is return guest Dr. Andy Galpin. He is a professor of

0:15.9

Knessology, California State University, Fullerton. He has a master's in human

0:21.2

movement sciences and a PhD in Human Bioenergetics and he's just a generally kind, sweet, brilliant

0:29.6

human being.

0:30.6

And I'm very grateful to get to share conversations with and get to share with you guys.

0:35.0

You might have seen him.

0:36.3

He's done probably the most appearances and the longest appearances

0:40.8

on the Huberman Lab podcast, very grateful to get to share the brilliant

0:46.8

mind of Dr Galpin with all of us here today. This conversation goes deep

0:51.6

into exercise physiology, the cutting edge science around how to get gains,

0:59.6

hypertrophy, how to improve strength, body composition. We get into some stuff around

1:05.2

respiration and breath work and breathing patterns. We tap into sleep. This

1:09.6

conversation is so rich. We're going to want to take notes. I probably don't want to listen to it again. I know that I will and yeah I'm just so grateful to get to share

1:18.1

folks like Andy Galpin with you all. Thank you again for subscribing. Thank you for sharing. Thank you for doing you.

1:23.2

Let's get to it with my guy, Dr. Andy Galpin.

1:27.2

All right, so specific breath practices that you would lean on if you were feeling overwhelmed.

1:34.0

Yeah, so for me personally, reading it internally is number one, self-awareness,

1:40.0

and then if I have to, second step is just going to nose only, right?

1:43.7

Making sure I'm not, right, sort of mouth breathing.

1:47.4

And then really, if I need to, it would just be a simple inhaled

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