Essentials: How to Assess & Improve All Aspects of Your Fitness | Dr. Andy Galpin
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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 Dr. Andy Galpin. Dr., Professor Andy Galpin.
Super excited to have you here. You're such an immense treasure trove of information on physical training and optimizing for specific goals and outcomes, how should I, or anyone else for that matter, think about their level of fitness in terms of really assessing whether or not I'm as fit as I could be and should be, both for sake of health and performance? When it comes to exercise, people generally have two major goals in mind. Goal number one is achieving some sort of appearance.
Right. This is I want to be big or want to not be too big or I want to be lean. There is an aesthetic component to almost everybody. They want to look a certain way or not look a certain way. The other one is functionality.
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