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624 claims across 57 endpoints

Claims by endpoint

What Andrew Huberman claims Resistance Training does, and whether the research agrees.

EndpointStanceResearchAlignmentClaims
strengthIncrease
348
With consensus178
performanceIncrease
78
With consensus91
recoveryIncrease
2
With consensus30
muscle massIncrease
91
With consensus25
lean massIncrease
40
With consensus23
fatigueDecrease
22
Against17
muscle strengthIncrease
348
With consensus16
body fatDecrease
31
With consensus16
painDecrease
21
With consensus16
cognitive functionIncrease
73
With consensus13
metabolismIncrease
5
With consensus12
balanceIncrease
15
With consensus11
body compositionIncrease
43
With consensus9
cognitionIncrease
3
With consensus9
grip strengthIncrease
348
With consensus8
skeletal muscle massIncrease
91
With consensus8
stressDecrease
9
With consensus8
inflammationIncrease
4
Against8
sarcopeniaDecrease
21
With consensus7
stabilityIncrease
4
With consensus7
health statusIncrease
29
With consensus6
insulin resistanceDecrease
22
With consensus6
bone mineral densityIncrease
8
With consensus6
heart rateDecrease
3
With consensus6
physical performanceIncrease
78
With consensus5
immune functionIncrease
73
With consensus5
lean body massIncrease
48
With consensus5
body fat percentageDecrease
31
With consensus5
mental healthIncrease
29
With consensus5
insulin sensitivityIncrease
22
Against5
glucoseIncrease
17
Against5
mobilityIncrease
13
With consensus5
cardiovascular healthIncrease
29
With consensus4
body massIncrease
48
With consensus3
quality of lifeIncrease
47
With consensus3
bone healthIncrease
29
With consensus3
metabolic healthIncrease
29
With consensus3
bone strengthIncrease
348
With consensus2
executive functionIncrease
73
With consensus2
fat massDecrease
47
With consensus2
cardiometabolic healthIncrease
29
With consensus2
blood pressureIncrease
17
Against2
glucose utilizationIncrease
17
Against2
blood glucoseDecrease
17
With consensus2
sleepNeutral
16
With consensus2
mortalityDecrease
4
Against2
toleranceIncrease
4
With consensus2
creatinineIncrease
3
With consensus2
obesityDecrease
3
With consensus2
cognitive performanceIncrease
78
With consensus1
cardiovascular functionIncrease
73
With consensus1
health benefitsIncrease
29
With consensus1
insulinDecrease
22
With consensus1
glucose uptakeIncrease
17
Against1
blood glucose managementIncrease
17
Against1
body weightNeutral
11
With consensus1
cancerNeutral
7
With consensus1

Notable

Claims that diverge from — or run ahead of — the research.

What they've said

Mentions of Resistance Training across Andrew Huberman's content.

Andrew Huberman

Dr. Andy Galpin: Maximize Recovery to Achieve Fitness & Performance Goals | Huberman Lab

…brings up a very important tangent which is uh for instance if you go and take a blood test and you are somebody who exercises very intensely uh with resistance training your blood creatinine levels can be way out of range and if your physician doesn't know that you're doing certain forms of exercise might say wow the…

Andrew Huberman

Dr. Andy Galpin: Maximize Recovery to Achieve Fitness & Performance Goals | Huberman Lab

…rm in the mirror I suppose has some utility you can get some sense of progress that you might trigger um here I'm almost specifically referring to uh resistance training I suppose it could be cardio if you're running on a treadmill or pushing a sled or something but um you can see form um you can get a sense of um wha…

Andrew Huberman

Dr. Andy Galpin: Maximize Recovery to Achieve Fitness & Performance Goals | Huberman Lab

…ise for specific adaptations Etc the month week year SC scales Etc we had a brief um discussion about the fact that if one trains legs very hard with resistance training you know some heavy squatting or deadlifting it or and there's some soreness that often times doing some quote unquote lighter cardio or um some uh l…