Jordan Feigenbaum

Yeah.

A few episodes ago, I had Dr. Jordan Feigenbaum on the podcast.

And folks, if you listen to that podcast, we talked all about what is minimal effective dose, what is maximal effective dose for improving strength, lean mass, bone mineral density.

And if you wanted to exercise during fat loss, if you haven't listened to that episode, I suggest you go back and do that.

So today, I want to know where cardio stops paying off, whether it ever causes harm, and how much of it should we do? I'm Dr.

Jordan Feigenbaum, and this is the Barbell Medicine Podcast.

I'll give you my full answer at the end, but I'll give you the short version now.

Doing more conditioning keeps improving your cardiorespiratory fitness and nobody has found where that stops.

Next week, we're doing something different.

It's the case of an athlete with a set of findings that look exactly like the thing that everybody in sports cardiology is most afraid of and how the test that was supposed to tell us which one it was failed.

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We'll catch you next week and every week right here on the Barbell Medicine Podcast.

Today, we'll find out where that one came from, whether there's anything behind it, and then try to answer the actual question, how much lifting should you do? I'm Dr.

Jordan Feigenbaum, and this is the Barbell Medicine Podcast.

I'll give you my full answer at the end with the obligatory snark, but here's the short version so you can see where I'm going.

I think that most people should be doing roughly double what the guidelines say because I think that many of the health benefits from exercise keep going and I don't think anybody has found the top for all of them.

Though, that's still an open question to where the real ceiling exists.

Next week, we're going to do the same thing with cardio, where the data is better, there are still some more heart issues to address, and the sweet spot recommendation comes from one guy sitting in a chair.

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We'll catch you next week and every week right here on the Barbell Medicine Podcast.

And at the end, I'll tell you the modern version of this exact same warning that's happening now.

I'm Dr. Jordan Feigenbaum, and this is the Barbell Medicine Podcast.

In the museum at Olympia, there's a block of red sandstone that weighs about 315 pounds with a handhold cut into it.

The inscription on this rock from the early 6th century BC says that a man named Bybon lifted it over his head with one hand.

Where's that limit? Those two can have different answers and the answers are different again for each outcome you're tracking.

Does it make sense that building bone and building muscle have the same saturation point? That's next week, along with where the lift twice per week recommendation actually came from, which involves a single exercise on a single machine and a worry about people quitting workouts that would take too long.

For everyone here at Barbell Medicine, I'm Dr. Jordan Feigenbaum.

Thank you so much for listening.