Ep. 163 - All About EMG and Hypertrophy (feat Andrew Vigotsky)

Iron Culture

The MASS Crew

Sports & Recreation, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 827 Ratings

🗓️ 21 March 2022

⏱️ 86 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

EMG studies, they’re the classic “evidence-based” tool to “Um actually” all the bros about what the perfect exercises they should have chosen for every muscle group. Or are they? Today we’re joined by returning guest, Ph.D. candidate Andrew Vigotsky, who’s published some of the most influential papers on the limitations and the best practice guidance for EMG research. In this episode, we learn what EMG data can and can’t tell us, what types of evidence we should rely on to inform exercise selection, and what research we should perform in the future to move the field forward. Ultimately, we unfortunately learn that the good old days of T-Nation articles might be sadly behind us.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Eric, we have a big announcement in this episode today.
0:03.0	We do, and this is something that I think might, it's for a good cause, okay?
0:08.0	It's for a good reason. We do have unquantified algorithms that we don't understand that tell us to do this, but you're just going to have to trust us.
0:17.0	We're not following through with one promise that we have always
0:20.9	historically made on Iron Culture. But it will be worth it. That's all I can say. Omar, do you
0:27.3	want to drop the bad news? So we say at the end of every single episode, we'll catch you
0:33.1	every single Monday. However, next Monday, what date is that, Eric?
0:38.0	Is it the 28th?
0:39.0	Would it be the 28th?
0:40.1	It would be the 28th of March.
0:41.4	20th to March.
0:42.6	We will not be releasing episode because we're releasing episode that Friday, April 1st.
0:48.5	And we're dead serious.
0:49.3	The next episode after this one will be on Friday, not Monday.
0:52.0	So please, we apologize for the inconvenience.
0:54.8	The corporate cabal, the higher-ups, they send, it's top down. Okay, we're atop the pyramid.
1:00.4	They're atop whatever they are, the ziggurat. It's nothing like a pyramid. Just telling us what to do.
1:06.7	We're beholden to them. They said, don't release it on Monday. And we said why and they said don't ask and here we are.
1:13.6	So we feel like that's a good enough reason for us. It's sufficient. Yeah, you know, you got to please the powers of the B. But we're not going to let that stop us from still having the same number of episodes. They're just, their frequency is different, really.
1:28.1	This is just a different type of program where you manipulate the frequency rather than the
1:32.5	volume or the intensity because we're bringing that intensity.
1:34.7	It's going to be a good episode.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from The MASS Crew, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of The MASS Crew and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.