Essentials: Optimize Your Exercise Program with Science-Based Tools | Jeff Cavaliere

Welcome to Huberman Lab Essentials, where we revisit past episodes for the most potent and actionable science-based tools for mental health, physical health, and performance. I'm Andrew Huberman and I'm a professor of neurobiology and ophthalmology at Stanford School of Medicine. And now for my discussion with Jeff Cavalier. Jeff, Such a pleasure for me to have you here.

I'm glad to be here. It's amazing. Yeah, I'm a longtime consumer of your content. I've learned a tremendous amount about fitness, uh, both in the weight room, cardio, nutrition, things that I've applied for over a decade. One of your mantras is, uh, you know, if you want to look like an athlete, train like an athlete.

And I think that's something really special that's sets aside what you do from what a lot of other um very well qualified people do. What's the sort of contour of a basic program that anybody could think about as a starting place? I I think it's like a 60-40 split, which would be leaning towards uh weight training, you know, strength and and and uh and then you know the conditioning aspect be about 40%. So if you look at it over a course of a

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