Dr Glenn McConell chats with Dr Tommy Lundberg from the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden. He is an expert on resistance training (RT) and has focussed on the effect of concurrent training on exercise adaptations. That is, does doing concurrent resistance and endurance training affect the responses to resistance and endurance training compared to doing either alone. His research has specifically focused on the effects of endurance training on resistance training adaptations although we also discussed the effect of resistance training on endurance training adaptations. It appears that in many people concurrent training has either no interfering effect or may even be beneficial. However there is some limited research that endurance training, although not affecting hypertrophy, may reduce strength and/or speed of contraction. He has also done a lot of work on biological males been involved in female sports (which will be converted in a future podcast). I found it a very interesting chat. Enjoy! X: @TLexercise.
0:00. Introduction
3:03. Tommy’s background
5:25. Aland Islands
7:25. What is concurrent training?
9:40. Resistance training can benefit endurance performance
13:35. Does resistance training (RT) affect injuries?
15:05. The amount/volume of training and concurrent training
18:32. Little effect of endurance training on hypertrophy but might effect strength
21:30. Glenn’s frustrations at the gym
24:15. Single-leg research studies vs whole body exercise
31:20. AMPK and metabolism etc
34:00. Potential mechanisms involved
35:40. Interference of endurance on strength hasn’t been clearly shown
38:00. RT can improve endurance performance and economy
41:10. Specificity of resistance adaptations
45:55. Running straight after the gym
48:55. How much resistance training is enough/sufficient/optimal
51.20. Benefits of circuit training
53:05. Endurance exercise interfering with strength/contraction speed
54:20. Relationship between muscle size and strength
59:05. Explosive resistance training best for endurance exercise
1:04:35. Order of the concurrent training
1:06:35. Arterial stiffness/health and concurrent training
1:10:25. Team sports and concurrent training
1:12.08. Different sports a concurrent training
1:13:05. Mechanisms: gene expression etc
1:16:22. Fatigue and concurrent training
1:17:40. If short on time what exercise would you recommend?
1:19:55. Sex differences?
1:20:45. Age effects?
1:21:20. Controversies in the field
1:24:25. Things that influencers can get wrong
1:25:45. Other areas that he is investigating
1:27:50. Anti inflammatories can reduce resistance training gains
1:30:08. Takeaway messages
1:31:14. Outro
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