Recap: How to build strength from the comfort of your home | Andy Galpin

Hello, and welcome to Zoe recap, where each week we find the best bits from one of our podcast episodes to help you improve your health. Today, we're talking about strength. Building muscle doesn't have to mean lifting heavy weights in a fancy gym. In fact, you can do it from the comfort of your own living room. No expensive memberships, no extra long workouts, no excuses. To prove it, I asked human performance expert, professor Andy to design an at home strength session for someone who's never lifted a weight before. It's quick, cheap, and a sure fire way to add years to your health span. If you are new to strength training, this episode is the perfect place to start. I'd like to paint a picture that this is my sister that we're helping to guide. And my sister has got into running recently. So she's, you know, got, you know, a lot more serious about her exercise, but she's not doing any weight. She's never done any weight. She's never done weights from the day she was born as far I'm aware until today. And so it's like, it's really alien. And I'm hoping she's gonna listen to this and be like, you know what, Andy, not only were you really convincing, but now you're gonna paint, you know, me this picture of how it's something that I can do. And by the way, you know, she's like working full time and she has young kids. She definitely doesn't have the time. If I say you gotta go to this gym, which is quite a long way from her house, like, that's probably not gonna happen. What should she be doing? Alright. My first question is, and this is exactly how I program and coach, by the way. How many days a week do I have? I think she'd say, well, how many do I really need to, like, get some real benefit. No. It's not it's not the question. Question is how many do you have? Oh, how many do you have? Two. Two. Great. I wanna know the restriction. K. I'm not gonna force you in a situation that's gonna fail. Coaching mistake one zero one. Trying to put them into the perfect program, not the program that's right for them right now. I'm not gonna do that. If you said the answer was one, I'm gonna go on one. And I'm gonna get success with one and then you're gonna buy in and I'm gonna go, let me get you to two. You think that was good? Watch what can happen if I get you to two days a week. If I'm being honest, most of the time, whatever they number they tell me, I take one off. K. They say four, I go three. I know this. Right? We've we've been on this road many times. So she says, okay. I can do two days a week. That's a believable number. I'm gonna …