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The Discover Strength Podcast Luke Carlson

    • Health & Fitness
    • 4.9 • 49 Ratings

Busy people don't have time to waste on exercise that doesn't work. Discover Strength delivers twice per week workouts with an expert trainer. We'll help you look and feel your best in a fraction of the time. 

    The Difference in Demonstrating Strength and Developing Strength

    The Difference in Demonstrating Strength and Developing Strength

    What is your objective when it comes to strength training? Are you trying to demonstrate strength, or are you actually creating a meaningful stimulus to develop strength? In this episode, Luke talks about the differences and how we can let go of this old and popular mindset that demonstrating your strength is more important than building strength. 
    Discover Strength offers free Introductory Workouts at any location across the united states. You can schedule your free Introductory Workout HERE !

    • 23 min
    Why “evidence based” matters with James Fisher PhD

    Why “evidence based” matters with James Fisher PhD

    In this week's episode, we are joined by James Fisher PhD from Solent University in the UK, to discuss why your workouts should be based on the latest research on exercise. 
    Discover Strength offers free Introductory Workouts at any location across the united states. You can schedule your free Introductory Workout HERE !

    • 21 min
    Boston Marathon Preview with Special Guests Dr. Chris Lundstrom and Olympian Dakotah Lindwurm

    Boston Marathon Preview with Special Guests Dr. Chris Lundstrom and Olympian Dakotah Lindwurm

    In this episode, Dr. Chris Lundstrom and Olympian Dakotah Lindwurm discuss their marathon preparation, how they approach marathon training, and the Boston Marathon, which is coming up in just one week.  Luke wraps up the episode with how to strength train for distance runners. 
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    Discover Strength offers free Introductory Workouts at any location across the united states. You can schedule your free Introductory Workout HERE !

    • 51 min
    Brand New Study: Lifting Weights Alone, Lifting with a Training Partner, Lifting with a Personal Trainer

    Brand New Study: Lifting Weights Alone, Lifting with a Training Partner, Lifting with a Personal Trainer

    In this episode Luke Carlson discusses the brand new study that was published around supervision. In this study, they had three groups: one group that lifted alone, one that lifted with a training partner, and one that lifted with a personal trainer. Luke talks about the benefits received by each group and why supervision (and training with a personal trainer) is essential.
    Discover Strength offers free Introductory Workouts at any location across the united states. You can schedule your free Introductory Workout HERE !

    • 19 min
    We are back!

    We are back!

    Welcome back to the Discover Strength Podcast. After a short hiatus, we are back with a new host, CEO, and founder, Luke Carlson. In this short preview, he will share with you the new format for the podcast and what you can look forward to in the coming weeks!
    Discover Strength offers free Introductory Workouts at any location across the united states. You can schedule your free Introductory Workout HERE !

    • 4 min
    Discover Strength Podcast Throwback: "The Benefits of Resistance Training Beyond Hypertrophy & Big Weights" with Dr. James McKendry

    Discover Strength Podcast Throwback: "The Benefits of Resistance Training Beyond Hypertrophy & Big Weights" with Dr. James McKendry

    On this week's episode of the Discover Strength Podcast, we are joined by Dr. James McKendry from McMaster University in Canada. Dr. McKendry is a researcher and Ph.D. fellow at McMaster University and part of former guest Dr. Stuart Phillip's world-renowned lab on protein metabolism. Dr. McKendry joined me this week to discuss a recent paper he was a part of from that lab looking at the benefits of resistance training beyond hypertrophy and strength. The paper is a review that investigates the current literature to give recommendations for resistance training for things other than strength and hypertrophy benefits. We constantly talk about the "other" benefits of resistance training and this paper does a fantastic job of breaking down, in detail many of those other benefits and why they might be important to people.

    While strength, muscle growth, and the physiological changes that accompany them are important. There is an abundance of physiological and psychological benefits to resistance training beyond hypertrophy that have almost nothing to do with the physical weights being moved.

    The biggest areas of interest in the paper breakdown, in detail, with fantastic graphical displays some of the other major things to keep in mind when it comes to starting and maintaining a resistance training program. Things like mobility and function, cognition, cancer (recovery and possibly mitigation), metabolic health, and overall mortality improvements (meaning helping you live a longer and fuller life).

    We recommend a lot of papers on this podcast and in general to our listeners. This is one paper I would suggest everyone reads in its entirety. It is extremely easy to understand and digest and is filled with wonderful visual representations on the importance and impact of resistance training. This is a great paper to share with friends or family who are also on the fence about strength training. Maybe they don't think they "need big muscles" or don't want to get "bulky". Aside from being highly unlikely to attain for the average person this paper examines some of the reasons why EVERYONE should participate in resistance training in at least some capacity. It also gives some recommendations on how to do so, recommendations very similar to what our listeners will be familiar with.

    Link to paper  HERE.

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    • 40 min

Customer Reviews

4.9 out of 5
49 Ratings

49 Ratings

Heidi Limpert ,

Dispel myths and get the facts w this podcast

Exercise science can be confusing, outdated and frustrating if you don’t have the latest information. Discover strength wades through the mystery of what to do and what not to do in an easy bite size podcast. Thanks for chunking it down to make it easy to follow regarding weight loss, muscle gain and sport science. I share this podcast often!

GrooseLord ,

Good

Really good at getting huge names in the field of resistance exercise and getting great insights from them.

Sh0wtime22 ,

Science base

This podcast has great informations. When it comes to training . I have loved every guest that they have had on. Highly recommend this to anyone !

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