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Iron Culture

Ep. 162 - Training To Failure, Advanced Lifters and Breaking Through Plateaus

Iron Culture

The MASS Crew

Sports & Recreation, Health & Fitness

4.8827 Ratings

🗓️ 14 March 2022

⏱️ 116 minutes

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Summary

As you all know, we at Iron Culture have succeeded in becoming lifting cult leaders, which basically means we’ve failed at our previous attempts at having respectable jobs  (sorry mom). However, the good news is that we are experts on failure because of this. In this episode we do a deep dive on failure in resistance training, building on prior episodes to help you understand why this seemingly straightforward concept is so murky, and why there is so much disagreement in the literature on proximity to failure. Further, before we even get to the topic du jour, we have a delicious appetizer discussion on expert creep and how not all sources of misinformation are necessarily perpetrated by sell-outs trying to trick you, and how to respond accordingly.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Eric, sir. We got a monster episode today. I mean, and I truly mean that. The fans...

0:07.0

You always do. You always mean we have a monster episode.

0:11.0

But I believe it, okay? And it's right up here because someone, Adam, he left the comment, okay? This is what happens.

0:18.0

And I'm glad that the cult is meming now because I spoke it into the

0:22.4

universe. Well, it's a known fact. So it's an objective truth. Eric's a hunk, right? You can evaluate it

0:27.5

any which way. He's a hunk. But other people are saying this now, right? Some people said,

0:31.8

don't joke about it, Omar. It's not funny when you call Eric a hunk, and I said, there's nothing funny about it. And so Adam W.

0:38.7

said, speaking of selling out, when is Eric dropping his signature clone, musky professor,

0:45.5

by Eric Helms? And then someone corrected him and said, it's Dr. Eric Helms. And it's true.

0:50.4

It's true, right? Like, people are fighting now over you. It's this whole thing. It's very interesting.

0:54.8

And can I just say, regarding this humor, Eric, to bring it up, I like some of the jokes.

0:59.4

One of my favorite comedians said this.

1:01.3

He likes to make a joke until it's no longer funny.

1:04.6

And then he likes to keep making the joke again until it's funny again.

1:07.4

So it's like this dip that occurs and then it comes back because you're

1:11.0

talking about it so much. Yeah. So you're basically talking about all the calf jokes from the

1:15.7

which which have happened like four times I would say. Because you've you've kept that

1:19.2

alive for a long time and that it is it's had its own rebirth. It's like joking about not

1:25.7

training calves and not having calves is is like a

1:28.1

phoenix that just won't stop rising from the ashes just leaving ash trails

1:31.7

everywhere and you're like get this bird out of my house

1:33.4

actually that bird's kind of cute I like that bird you know and I get that

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