This podcast is eternally dumb. Sorry but these are the classic half truths.
What a load of shit.
He has no idea about what you stimulate by doing "cardio", what you change in your body (yeah its a lot more then just cardio) and builds up this nonsense antagonistic oversimplification strenght <> cardio or that diet is more important than cardio for heart health.
Well you and him both seem to agree on putting "cardio" in scare quotes as it is non-specific terminology wrt programming. Certainly, it's obvious that doing something like jogging for an hour every day would result in
some strength or explosive adaptation, but to what degree? If your interest is
injury prevention, like implied by the thread topic, then it is also obvious using ones eyes and believing what your eyes are showing you when you look at real life examples in reality, that long distance running is a highly stressful and catabolic activity on the body. Of course every body's got a limited amount of recovery rate to 'spend' on adapting from certain stresses, so for what benefits? Is it, say, fortifying your joints? No, not nearly as much as resistance training does; in fact, it so often is something that
exacerbates joint wear over time, something, (like many other athletic movements really) that you
pay for with wear, rather than something you might do to
build up resilience.
This last point is something Dr. Stuart McGill talks about a lot; through the course of playing a sport, you may be demanded to perform certain movements, such as crunching or curling for example (especially in jiu jitsu), which, however, does not necessarily mean you should reproduce those same exact movements
in your conditioning program. Such movements would be the things that would be
costing you integrity, so reproducing them in less-than-skill-specific training would just be
piling on. You would do proper resilience building exercises
in order to be able to perform those movements when you need to, be it in other forms of training or competition, over the course of a long career (which for spine health, in particular, would generally be anything that places the torso under tension while maintaining a rigid neutral spinal posture). To borrow his analogy, you would want to
invest more into your 'body bank', so you can have more to
'draw on' later
when you need it.
With regards to that very broad range of things that all sometimes are casually referred too as diet, i think the term needs to be unpacked a little; if by 'diet' you mean the (unfortunately) common perception of an eating pattern involving little or no lipid consumption, then yes, not only does it not ameliorate risk factor of developing heart complications or related dysfunctions to a statistically significant degree when controlled for other lifestyle habits, it can in fact be
actively precipitating greater morbidity.
It just sometimes feels to me like there is practically a cottage industry of folks out there (or people who hear from people and just parrot), who get off on willfully misconstruing things Rippetoe says in the most uncharitable manners possible, not really appreciating how, perhaps regardless that he doesn't speak like a uni prof
his instincts are good, and if you sit down and think about it you can see the logic or applicability of what he might be saying for the people he is talking about. The only thing i really quibble about to a great degree in his area of expertise is the recommendation of neat milk for any major capacity, but he's modulated his stance(s) on nutrition heavily over the years, so i don't really hold it against him.