Welcome back to the Barbell Medicine Podcast where we bring Modern Medicine to

Strength and Conditioning to Modern Medicine. I'm your host Dr. Jordan

Feigenbaum joined by the second most handsome doctor in North America.

Dr. Austin Baraki, what's going on man? Hey, doing all right, working in the hospital,

training is going well. I mean, it just makes sense. Again, the balance in the universe has been restored.

I don't know, like I've just had, well I was sick last week, and then this particular week

I'm not very strong. then your training must be going well. I mean that's

I'm not like I'm not like overwhelmingly strong but that's not actually what I'm

necessarily training for at the moment I'm doing you know plenty of running plenty of rowing and actually still

lifting as well and strength is hanging in there doing all right. Yeah that's fair

not fair enough I to be clear it's fine I training is not a super high priority for me as far as like

maximal strength but I still enjoy it. I just saw this weird thing on social

media which terrible place to be I do wonder how civilization would be without social media like what

what would we be behind would be head like what would I do with all my free time?

Someone's like no one likes strength training. I'm like I love going to the gym. Yeah and I like it but it was like no one loves

strength training but you just go do it right I see and I'm like no no I like it I do I enjoy it I don't always enjoy

not being strong as strong as I want to be like that part of it you know but I in fact the

doing it participating in it it's not like type 2 fun where it's fun afterwards or type 3 fun where it's like terrifying that we'll never do again, but like happy I did it. It's type 1 fun like I like it while I'm doing it. So maybe that's you know I would want I wonder

there's there's obviously a number of factors like not only your environment like how you're

introduced to it your value system so on certainly genetic component I would imagine as well, but like as far as how you respond to training, but like getting bit by that bug, like what, like if somebody could like cap encapsulate that into like something very you know

scalable and we could just infect everybody look oh now you love it too cool you

know yeah I mean in the same way that different people get

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