Will Training Fasted Hurt Your Gains?
Will training fasted hurt your muscle and strength gains? A new study had participants do full-body morning workouts for 12 weeks, with half having breakfast beforehand and half skipping breakfast to...
2 Juni 202531min
Why Long-Distance Runners Should Strength Train
Long-distance runners often hesitate to add strength training, for fear it will make them muscle-bound and heavy. But is that really what happens? In this episode, we discuss a new study on well-train...
26 Maj 202528min
This Is Your Brain on Strength Training
Research is mounting that strength training is not only good for our biceps, but also for our brains, improving our learning, memory, and focus. That goes for other forms of exercise, too, like cardio...
19 Maj 202528min
The Impact of Cardio Fitness on Strength Gains
If you improve your cardio fitness, will you also perform better in the gym and recover faster between sets? That's a common hypothesis in the gym world. If proven true, it would be another good reaso...
12 Maj 202530min
Building Muscle After 40
Forty might be the new twenty, and for many, life feels better than ever. But physical signs of aging are starting to creep up on us at that age. Our backs ache a bit more than ten years ago; we feel ...
5 Maj 202554min
How Many Sets per Muscle Group and Workout?
Is there too much of a good thing, or should you just keep adding sets to your workouts to grow bigger and stronger? In episode 32, we discussed a meta-regression analysis on weekly set volume for hy...
28 Apr 202529min
Results from Maxing out in the Bench Press Every Day
Ten years ago we got an awesome study on powerlifters and weightlifters maxing out in the squat daily. Now, a group of physical therapy students have replicated that study, but in the bench press in...
21 Apr 202536min
Signs You Might Be Ego Lifting – New Mailbag!
Which type of bicep curl is best if you want to grow your biceps? How do you know if you are applying progressive overload and pushing yourself, or just ego lifting? And what's the point of accessory ...
14 Apr 202548min
