#365 A PHD's Secret to INFINITE Gains | Eric Helms

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Dave Tate

Fitness, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 19 August 2025

⏱️ 193 minutes

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We welcome Eric Helms to this episode of Dave Tate's Table Talk Podcast!

Eric Helms, PhD, CSCS, is a WNBF Pro Natural Bodybuilder and internationally respected coach, scientist, and educator in the strength and physique sport world. Since 2009, he has coached with 3D Muscle Journey, where he now serves as Chief Science Officer. His coaching résumé includes national champions and world team athletes from five countries—three of whom became IPF World Champions. Eric has coached for Team USA, New Zealand, and Canada at IPF Classic Worlds, the Commonwealth Championships, and the inaugural Sheffield meet.

In academia, Eric is a Senior Research Fellow and Strength & Conditioning Lab Manager at the Sports Performance Research Institute New Zealand (SPRINZ) at Auckland University of Technology (AUT). His research focuses on evidence-based practices for bodybuilding and powerlifting, bridging the gap between science and real-world performance.

Eric is also a prolific communicator of science. He co-hosts the popular Iron Culture Podcast, co-authors The MASS Research Review with Greg Nuckols and Eric Trexler, and has written foundational books on bodybuilding and powerlifting programming and nutrition.

Eric's IG: https://www.instagram.com/helms3dmj/

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0:00.0	Bodybuilders don't need sports science to be big. They're already big.
0:03.0	Sports science can potentially support that. I can take sports to the next level. It can help us iron out details.
0:07.0	But let's not pretend that athletes have needed sports science.
0:11.0	It's time to sit down, keep it real, and cut the bullshit.
0:23.9	Welcome to Table Talk.
0:26.1	All right, guys, we're back with another episode of Table Talk.
0:28.5	My guest today is Eric Helms.
0:31.1	Here we go, right?
0:32.6	Senior Officer Team 3D Muscle Journey, co-founder, the Mass Review, which I'm going to give a plug
0:40.6	for that after I get through all this, a senior research fellow at Ot Sports Performance
0:45.3	Institute, New Zealand, advisory board for the Sports Nutrition Association, a PhD, a co-host of
0:53.5	the Iron Subculture Policy. Am I forgetting anything
0:56.2	major here? No, you're good. The big ones are, yeah, it's iron culture, you know, it's mass research
1:01.6	review. It's 3D muscle journey where I'm the chief science officer, and then I'm a senior research
1:05.8	fellow at AUT, in Zealand. Yeah. The counter to that, and I have to put this this out there you're a WMPF pro bodyblower
1:13.6	you've competed in what 17 shows bodybuilding shows over 20 power lifting competitions
1:19.5	yep a few Olympic weightlifting competitions and straw men as well yeah so I'm going to speculate
1:26.3	hypothesize I'm going to use scientific words here, that you're
1:29.5	more meathead than you are researcher.
1:31.5	I think the way I like to frame it.
1:33.5	I mean, you're not wrong.
1:34.5	You're not wrong, Dave.
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