Ep. 165 - Volume While Cutting: Why the Confusion
Iron Culture
The MASS Crew
4.8 • 827 Ratings
🗓️ 4 April 2022
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Summary
Combine enough truisms that lack precision and nuance and people get confused. This is exactly what happens in typical discussions of hypertrophy training while dieting. When a deficit is framed as a “state” rather than the cumulative effects of long term (body comp) and short term (acute energy balance) energy availability, and tropes like “volume is the primary driver of hypertrophy”, “intensity is more important than volume” and “dieting is catabolic” are stated without nuance, logic disconnects from physiology. In this episode we discuss the nature of caloric deficits, the effects they have in the long and short term, why and how you lose muscle while dieting, and the role of training for muscle retention in this context.
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| 0:00.0 | Eric. |
| 0:04.1 | Omar. |
| 0:06.1 | Note the dramatic pause. |
| 0:08.0 | Those tuning in to the video side of our podcast, which it is on YouTube, okay? |
| 0:12.4 | 80% of listeners are audio. |
| 0:14.2 | Hi, how's it going? |
| 0:15.6 | But there is that dominant 20% that leave the comments on the YouTube and we like to respond and they probably |
| 0:21.9 | will notice because we just screen record around here we do nothing fancy we're to the people |
| 0:26.5 | for the people something simple clean and precise as charlie parker would say they would note |
| 0:31.4 | eric that at the top can i can i is it that i'm not wearing glasses in this episode? Oh, no, no. |
| 0:38.8 | So I'm going to talk about your very chiseled... |
| 0:41.3 | Is it that I look a little taller than the last time that we had an Iron Culture episode? |
| 0:47.9 | So we did cover... |
| 0:50.0 | I will say you do look a little bit more sveled if I had to say something. |
| 0:53.2 | And your jaw's looking quite chiseled. |
| 0:56.0 | I just feel like week to week. |
| 0:57.8 | You know how sodium can really, really mess with certain faces? |
| 1:01.5 | This week in particular, you just look like a classical, statuesque version of the Eric that I know. |
| 1:08.9 | I can't quite define what that is, but you know the eye can tell. They call it the Neander I know. I can't quite define what that is, |
| 1:11.1 | but you know that I can tell? |
| 1:13.0 | They call it the Neanderthal |
| 1:14.9 | actually principle where a human can tell |
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