Ep. 198 - Why Research Won’t Help Your Training (Especially On A Tuesday)

Iron Culture

The MASS Crew

Sports & Recreation, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 827 Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2022

⏱️ 110 minutes

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Summary

For many, research is taken to represent a framework for understanding concepts that can then be applied to their own training.

This can be taken too far when some hope to divine exact details that apply specifically to their own journey. Research isn’t meant to tell you (dear listener) how to train on a Tuesday.

What is the best way to properly utilize the current literature to better our own lifting journeys? Two hunks set out to explore this very topic.

00:00 Introducing another MONSTER episode (and reviewing reviews and continuing the feud with the macrofactor podcast)

06:56 How training to failure research is really conducted

Warneke 2022 Influence of Long-Lasting Static Stretching on Maximal Strength, Muscle Thickness and Flexibility https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9174468/

Iron Culture Ep. 197: Training To Failure: A Comprehensive Overview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oa8Z-fUuiNU

Halperin 2021 Accuracy in Predicting Repetitions to Task Failure in Resistance Exercise: A Scoping Review and Exploratory Meta-analysis https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34542869/

34:00 The death of the “expert” (and Mr Train-to-failure)

44:01 Study designs: disconfirming hypotheses vs proving something to be true

Iron Culture Ep. 196- How Much Training Do Powerlifters Actually Need To Get Stronger (Ft. Dr. Pak) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EJ0Qp6spGQ

Bell 2022 “You can't shoot another bullet until you've reloaded the gun” https://sportrxiv.org/index.php/server/preprint/view/208

1:01:52 Barriers to research and the mistrust of science

Monaghan 2001 Challenging medicine? Bodybuilding, drugs and risk https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1467-9566.00180

Li 2022 Self-Reported Training and Supplementation Practices Between Performance-Enhancing Drug-User Bodybuilders Compared with Natural Bodybuilders https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36165879/

1:21:00 Appeal to swoleness: researchers in sport science and the application of findings

1:32:40 How science can change practice: the BCAA example

Hackett 2013 Training practices and ergogenic aids used by male bodybuilders https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22990567/

Iron Culture Ep. 182 - How to call out B.S. and Pseudoscience https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckzuycwnRH8

1:45:42 Concluding thoughts

Transcript

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0:00.0	Eric.
0:01.6	Omar.
0:02.8	How do we do this to ourselves every single time?
0:06.3	We just don't learn despite the fact that we're an educational platform.
0:10.9	I can't believe this man.
0:12.0	Last podcast I revealed, or actually two podcasts ago, sorry, that could have been a controversy
0:16.5	right there, me misremembering.
0:19.0	I revealed to you that I'd been compromised,
0:21.7	that Greg Nuckles had extended what I perceived to be
0:26.0	in all of branch by just being a decent human being.
0:28.7	And immediately, my lust for war against Stronger by Science
0:33.7	dissipated almost immediately, which I'm ashamed to say.
0:36.6	I'm ashamed to admit that that's all it took.
0:38.7	Just a hi, how are you?
0:39.9	But here we are.
0:41.5	And now I feel like we potentially in the last episode did a disservice to the community,
0:47.3	Eric, because one of the top rated comments, a very serious comment that someone said,
0:52.6	James Singleton has a lot of upvotes.
0:56.5	And he said, wow, and we need to address this because we care very much about the core of the community, the soul of iron culture itself.
1:04.1	He said, wow, does anyone else remember when this podcast was actually good?
1:08.7	I can't believe they let the guest talk that long uninterrupted.
1:14.1	Unsubscribed, total sellouts.
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