Inside Exercise brings the absolute who's who of researchers in exercise physiology and metabolism and exercise’s effects on health. With scientific rigor, these researchers discuss popular exercise topics while providing practical strategies for all.
The interviewer, Emeritus Professor Glenn McConell has:
- Exercise Metabolism researcher over 30 years (Uni of Melbourne, Ball State Uni, Monash Uni, Uni of Copenhagen and Victoria Uni)
- Published 120 journal articles
- Put together a 17 chapter Exercise Metabolism eBook with world experts
Twitter: @Inside_exercise glenn.mcconell@gmail.com
#90 - Former WR marathoner Derek Clayton with the top researchers who've studied him over 50 years
Emeritus Professor Glenn McConell interviews former marathon world record holder Derek Clayton, Professor David Costill, Professor Mark Hargreaves, and Dr. Andre La Gerche about Clayton's physiology and the long-term effects of exercise on his heart.
7 Feb 2025TRANSCRIPT
#89 - Concurrent training with Dr Tommy Lundberg
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 (RT) can benefit endurance performance
13:35. Does 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 RT adaptations
45:55. Running straight after the gym
48:55. How much RT 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 RT 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
Inside Exercise brings to you the who's who of research in exercise metabolism, exercise physiology and exercise’s effects on health. With scientific rigor, these researchers discuss popular exercise topics while providing practical strategies for all.
The interviewer, Emeritus Professor Glenn McConell, has an international research profile following 30 years of Exercise Metabolism research experience while at The University of Melbourne, Ball State University, Monash University, the University of Copenhagen and Victoria University.
He has published over 120 peer reviewed journal articles and recently edited an Exercise Metabolism eBook written by world experts on 17 different topics (https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-94305-9).
Connect with Inside Exercise and Glenn McConell at:
Twitter: @Inside_exercise and @GlennMcConell1
Instagram: insideexercise
Facebook: Glenn McConell
LinkedIn: Glenn McConell https://www.linkedin.com/in/glenn-mcconell-83475460
ResearchGate: Glenn McConell
Email: glenn.mcconell@gmail.com
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29 Sept 2024TRANSCRIPT
#88 - Exercise preserves muscle and metabolism during cancer with Dr Lykke Sylow
Dr Glenn McConell chats with Associate Professor Lykke Sylow from The University of Copenhagen. She is a rising star in exercise metabolism and in particular the effect of exercise on cancer. This is the second podcast episode on exercise and cancer (See Professor Kathryn Schmitz episode #9).
Remarkably she said that if you are a non-smoker your biggest risk of getting cancer is inactivity. Not clear if this is independent of obesity etc. Can associated with a reduction of insulin sensitivity and also cachexia (with the loss of muscle mass is very important). The cancer itself may cause insulin resistance. Exercise can reduce the likelihood of getting cancer, improve the prognosis during cancer treatment and reduce the likely of getting cancer again. There is even evidence that exercise can improve the effectiveness of chemotherapy and reduce the extent of metastasis. Really remarkable stuff. A lot more research is needed to clarify these things. X: @lykkesylow
0:00. Introduction
2:40. Lykke is a rising star
3:59. Cancer and exercise overview
6:09. Wasting of muscle mass with cancer
7:00. Evidence that exercise reduces the risk of getting cancer
11:40. Inactivity / obesity and cancer
13:03. Glucose metabolism and cancer
15:20. Cancer cachexia
19:05. The cancer itself may cause insulin resistance
22:55. Cancer cachexia/ loss of muscle mass
29:30. When loss weight tend to lose muscle
30:30. Mechanisms of cancer cachexia
33:20. Pre cancer muscle mass/strength and survival
35:50. With cancer insulin resistance may come before cachexia
40:07. What do different cancers have different effects?
41:48. Exercise can improve tolerance to cancer treatment/fatigue
46:20. Does exercise reverse the insulin sensitivity with cancer
46:30. Exercise increases muscle glucose use during and after exercise
52:10. Exercise during chemotherapy treatment
54:55. What kind/type of exercise are we talking about?
1:01:20. Mechanisms/AMPK
1:03:25. Exercise reduces fatigue in cancer
1:04:13. Exercise may improve the effectiveness of chemotherapy
1:06:25. Exercise may reduce metastasis of cancer
1:08:30. Sex differences, cancer and exercise
1:12:20. Age, cancer and exercise
1:15:15. Availability of exercise in oncology departments
1:18:50. Diet vs exercise in cancer treatment
1:19:50. Strength vs endurance training with cancer
1:21:22. Takeaway messages
1:26:23. Outro
Inside Exercise brings to you the who's who of research in exercise metabolism, exercise physiology and exercise’s effects on health. With scientific rigor, these researchers discuss popular exercise topics while providing practical strategies for all.
The interviewer, Emeritus Professor Glenn McConell, has an international research profile following 30 years of Exercise Metabolism research experience while at The University of Melbourne, Ball State University, Monash University, the University of Copenhagen and Victoria University.
He has published over 120 peer reviewed journal articles and recently edited an Exercise Metabolism eBook written by world experts on 17 different topics (https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-94305-9 (https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-94305-9)).
Connect with Inside Exercise and Glenn McConell at:
Twitter: @Inside_exercise and @GlennMcConell1
Instagram: insideexercise
Facebook: Glenn McConell
LinkedIn: Glenn McConell https://www.linkedin.com/in/glenn-mcconell-83475460 (https://www.linkedin.com/in/glenn-mcconell-83475460)
ResearchGate: Glenn McConell
Email: glenn.mcconell@gmail.com (mailto:glenn.mcconell@gmail.com)
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Anchor: https://anchor.fm/insideexercise (https://anchor.fm/insideexercise)
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#90 - Former WR marathoner Derek Clayton with the top researchers who've studied him over 50 years
Published 24 Apr 2025 · Transcript excerpt
[…] That's having trouble staying with the pack up the hill. But Derek was dropping from the run of the pack to the back of the pack and clearly noticing when he was in atrial fibrillation. And so it was our aim to get him back into a normal rhythm so that he could enjoy exercise as much as he wanted to do for as well as he could. And so what that process involves and it's actually changed a little bit in the last year or two so it would be a different, slightly different procedure now. But mostly atrial fibrillation comes from the veins that come out of the lungs and into the left atrium. And so the procedure is called pulmonary vein isolation and it's basically putting scars around, you know, putting fences around where those veins come in so that even if they're misbehaving, the normal electrical conduction can go on unimpeded by it. […]
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