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Iron Culture presented by MASS

Ep 303 - Is the Obesity Epidemic an Evolutionary "Factory Error"?

Iron Culture presented by MASS

The MASS Crew

Health & Fitness

4.8874 Ratings

🗓️ 27 November 2024

⏱️ 101 minutes

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Summary

This week we've got a MONSTER episode in the form of a live Q&A episode with Dr. Helms and Dr. Trexler. The Good Doctors begin with a recap of the recent WNBF World Championships, followed by an insightful discussion about whether or not humans have a "factory error" in our design that promotes obesity. This is followed by a number of listeners' questions about functional anatomy, exercise selection, the importance of the eccentric phase of a lift, factors impacting reps in reserve (RIR) accuracy, biceps contributions to back exercises, hypertrophy considerations for the deadlift exercise, mini-cuts, set-to-set fatigue, energy expenditure limits, "delayed" hypertrophy, how to tell if you're a creatine nonresponder, and velocity-based training.

 

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Time stamps:

0:00 Intro

5:30 WNBF Worlds recap

15:25 Do Humans Have a "Factory Error" in our Design That Promotes Obesity?

Pontzer 2023 The provisioned primate: patterns of obesity across lemurs, monkeys, apes and humans https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37661747/

25:45 How important is the eccentric portion of the lift for hypertrophy?

Roig 2009 The effects of eccentric versus concentric resistance training on muscle strength and mass in healthy adults: a systematic review with meta-analysis https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18981046/

Schoenfeld 2010 The mechanisms of muscle hypertrophy and their application to resistance training https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20847704/

37:15 Exercises with brace points

Haugen 2023 Effect of free-weight vs. machine-based strength training on maximal strength, hypertrophy and jump performance - a systematic review and meta-analysis https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37582807/

44:56 Biceps functional anatomy during back compound exercises and epistemology

Pelland 2024 The Resistance Training Dose-Response: Meta-Regressions Exploring the Eects of Weekly Volume and Frequency on Muscle Hypertrophy and Strength Gain https://sportrxiv.org/index.php/server/preprint/view/460/version/587

50:25 Muscles to hypertrophy to increase deadlift strength

57:55 Rapid fire questions – Q1 Mini-cuts and bulking

1:05:15 Q2 Bench repetition performance across sets

1:08:35 Q3 Extreme energy expenditure

Areta 2024 Energetics of a World-Tour Female Road Cyclist During a Multistage Race (Tour de France Femmes) https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38796175/

Thurber 2019 Extreme events reveal an alimentary limit on sustained maximal human energy expenditure https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31183404/

1:12:34 Q4 Latent or delayed hypertrophy following a diet

Bjørnsen 2019 Delayed myonuclear addition, myofiber hypertrophy, and increases in strength with high-frequency low-load blood flow restricted training to volitional failure https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30543499/

Damas 2016 Resistance training-induced changes in integrated myofibrillar protein synthesis are related to hypertrophy only after attenuation of muscle damage https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27219125/

1:31:26 Q5 Where to find information on velocity-based training

https://massresearchreview.com/

1:37:16 Closing out

 

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, everybody.

0:04.6

Eric Trexler here with my dear friend and colleague, the good Dr. Eric Helms.

0:10.1

This is Iron Culture Live, presented by the Mass Research Review.

0:15.4

If you've been following along the last few weeks, then you know we're trying to get in the habit of doing more live

0:21.8

episodes on Monday nights. The typical episode now of Iron Culture is actually going to be live

0:27.2

on YouTube streamed at 7 p.m. Eastern Time. If you haven't been following the last few episodes,

0:34.2

you're very confused. You don't know what's happening. Um, you are questioning your

0:38.8

reality. And ironically, I found myself in the same place earlier today, Holmes. I, I had like one

0:45.5

huge task I needed to do for, for work. And, uh, I woke up for some reason, like three or four hours

0:52.5

before my alarm and just started working.

0:55.2

So I finished this task, which was very tedious.

0:57.8

I was working on an IRB document, an ethics document, which is now 230 pages long.

1:05.9

So I got that resubmitted and I basically had this like three hour chunk of time I freed up from

1:12.6

waking up early. I passed out, took a nap, and honestly got Helms, when I woke up from the nap,

1:19.1

I did not know what day it was. I was so confused. I like, my phone said four o'clock and I normally

1:26.8

wake up around 4 a.m. but it was still light outside.

1:29.7

So I thought my phone was broken and I was like refreshing it. And then I was like, wait a minute. Let's

1:34.4

start with the basics. What day is it? Not the exact date on the calendar. What day of the week?

1:39.4

Let's start there. Then we'll get more specific. And eventually I found my way toward reality. So all of that is to

1:45.9

say, if you're watching right now and the screen looks different and it's a different night than you're

1:50.6

used to for the live presentation, you will find your way back toward reality one way or another.

1:58.7

So don't panic. But yeah, thanks for joining us here on Iron

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