Matt Cooper is an accredited exercise physiologist, providing evidence-based information and motivation to keep you exercising better, for every day, for the rest of your life.
This episode discusses the importance of regular bloodwork for individuals in their 50s, including tests for cholesterol, blood sugar, triglycerides, and prostate specific antigen.
8 Apr 2025
Episode 7 - Damned Lies and Statistics
Recently on the social media platform LinkedIn I saw a post put up by someone who I believe was an orthopedic surgeon. He had on his post an image of a patient’s spine after they had had spinal fusion surgery. This is where rods and screws - and usually bone grafts - are implanted around two or more bones of the spine to reinforce that structure. It’s a risky procedure, despite many brilliant advances in the technology, and requires quite a significant rehab phase. The cervical and lumb...
18 Mar 2025
Episode 6 - The Clock is Ticking
Episode 6 - The Clock is Ticking Human psychology is a fascinating thing. The mind is the driver for all of our behaviour - it is our software driving our hardware. The mind gives us our sense of self, and allows us to utilise our intelligence. It projects our personality, and hides our self-perceived flaws. Our mind is sensitive to all manner of stimuli - physical, emotional, and environmental - and always refers to its memory bank stored within the many billions of neurons within the brai...
23 Feb 2025
Episode 5 - The Value of Aerobic Training
When we think about the way that exercise trains energy systems, we classify strength training as a form of anaerobic training, that is, utilising an energy system that does not require oxygen. The anaerobic pathway uses glucose to convert to energy. This process produces molecules that the cells within our body use as what I like to call ‘fast energy’, and is fundamental to all eukaryotic cells. Those molecules are ATP - that’s adenosine triphosphate, the power source of all biological energ...
14 Feb 2025
Episode 4 - The Value of Resistance Training
Before we get stuck into this, just a quick side note: you’ll hear me use the expressions ‘resistance training’ and ‘strength training’ throughout this episode. Although there are subtle differences between the two, the meaning is basically the same. I’ll probably expand on this idea a bit more in another episode, but for now, think of them as the same. If we think about the ways we can train our body to improve fitness, health and function, it can pretty much be broken down into two main mod...
3 Feb 2025
Episode 3 - Lifespan vs Healthspan
I remember when I was a kid back in the 1980s there was this magazine called Omni. It was a science magazine published in the US, but available on newsstands here in Australia. On almost every cover there’d be some reference to how people would live in the future. There’d usually be articles about longevity, cryopreservation, elixirs (or drugs) of youth, and futurism. I seem to recall that there was never any mention of future Type 2 diabetes, obesity epidemics or botox. There were often clai...
27 Jan 2025
Episode 2 - What does exercise do?
My name is Matt Cooper. I’m an accredited exercise physiologist, and this is Fitness and Function.Before we get started, let me say that there are times when exercise is not recommended for certain populations. Any exercise program should be cleared by your doctor, and be planned and supervised by an exercise physiologist.You might’ve heard the expression ‘exercise is medicine’. It’s used a lot by people like me - exercise physiologists - who work in the clinical space, where people who may h...
21 Jan 2025
Episode 1 - Don't give up on exercise.
My name is Matt Cooper. I’m an accredited exercise physiologist, and this is Fitness and Function.To start, I’d like to thank you for listening to this production. You’ve probably found this because of a search relating to exercise, health, fitness, training, or a myriad of other related searches. Welcome. I don’t advertise this podcast. I don’t have any sponsors. It’s made specifically for people like you, who have made the effort to take that first - or next - step in your health and fitnes...
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