If you search the word testosterone into Youtube you will get thousands of videos telling you how you can increase your testosterone with various exercises. There are a lot of people making some pretty insane claims, but which of these claims actually have any evidence? Today I'm going to walk you through the evidence on which type of exercise actually helps increase testosterone.

CHAPTERS

01:22 - Resistance Training and Testosterone

05:20 - Increased testosterone doesn’t always mean increased hypertrophy

06:12 - Who benefits most from exercise?

07:07 - Mechanism of testosterone and hypertrophy

08:02 - Endurance Exercise 09:26 - Overtraining

10:52 - How long do these testoerone changes last?

14:37 - How does obesity and age affect response to exercise?

15:25 - Does exercise increase long term testosterone?

17:54 - My takeaways

19:46 - Outro

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Vingren, J. L., et al (2010). https://doi.org/10.2165/11536910-000000000-00000

West, D. W. D., & Phillips, S. M. (2010). https://doi.org/10.3810/psm.2010.10.1814

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