Pre-Workout Tips to Quickly Improve Your Workout Energy | Dr. Andy Galpin & Dr. Andrew Huberman

If the answer is no , we're in a peaking phase , then we're actually gonna use what I call acute state shifters . So , this is a whole host of little tricks that I have that can change Hr V or any recovery metric within seconds .

Pre-Workout Tips to Quickly Improve Your Workout Energy | Dr. Andy Galpin & Dr. Andrew Huberman

It's no longer helpful . So um you want to deploy these things strategically . Yeah , the the phrase that comes to mind is signal , the noise , you know , the nervous system , especially the dopamine system and the adrenaline system , which are a part of this larger system called the catecholamine system .

Pre-Workout Tips to Quickly Improve Your Workout Energy | Dr. Andy Galpin & Dr. Andrew Huberman

So we're having grits for breakfast . Oh my great , like just something to change your mood , uh acute state shifters um to alter it . The other couple of tricks here are light .

Pre-Workout Tips to Quickly Improve Your Workout Energy | Dr. Andy Galpin & Dr. Andrew Huberman

Right ? And all of a sudden you snapped into a new mental shift , um or literally playing brain games , playing Tetris on your phone , like any of these things , um can work in this acute setting .

Pre-Workout Tips to Quickly Improve Your Workout Energy | Dr. Andy Galpin & Dr. Andrew Huberman

The one exception would be the long duration endurance work . Part of the reason I do that work is to let my mind go into states of drifting . Uh , I'm not trying to think in complete sentences or even close to it .