Muscles:  The World’s Perfect Motor

Dr. Roy Meals is an orthopedic surgeon who is an expert in the musculoskeletal system.  As such, he has dubbed muscles “The World’s Perfect Motor”.  Cardiac muscle is designed to contract 70 times a minute for 100 years.  The more you stress skeletal muscle, the stronger it gets.  Muscles can be powered by spinach, oatmeal, or any other food.  A regular motor requires specific fuel.  If you aren’t excited about that by that, then we have plenty of other stuff to talk about, including Chess Boxing, Bro Science, and why dark meat is dark.

*Bonus* – Adventures in Bodybuilding

In the name of research, Dr. Meals attended a bodybuilding contest to learn more about the inner workings.  It takes a lot to get muscles to look that big.  We even get into its history, first discussing the original weightlifter, who carried an ox calf every day until it was fully grown, to the originator of bodybuilding as a performance: Eugen Sandow.