Ep 332 - The Most Extreme Metabolic Adaptation Ever Recorded

Iron Culture

The MASS Crew

Sports & Recreation, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 827 Ratings

🗓️ 18 June 2025

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, the hosts discuss various aspects of bodybuilding prep, including caloric intake, metabolic adaptation, and the impact of extreme dieting. They explore historical studies that provide insights into these phenomena and discuss practical strategies for weight loss. The conversation transitions to powerlifting, specifically the recent IPF Worlds, highlighting the competitive dynamics and standout performances in the event. In this conversation, Eric Helms highlights impressive performances and battles in various weight classes. He emphasizes the growth of the sport and the challenges faced by lifters, particularly in extreme conditions. The subsequent Q&A covers the balance between powerlifting and bodybuilding, exercise order for hypertrophy, and the relationship between energy balance and recovery. Additionally, the practicality and effectiveness of using weighted vests for exercise are examined, providing insights into their potential benefits and drawbacks.

Time stamps:

00:00 Introduction and Helms' Updates on Bodybuilding Prep

01:50 Caloric Intake and Metabolic Adaptation

05:35 Extreme Cases of Metabolic Adaptation: Insights from Historical Studies

25:26 IPF Worlds Recap

44:44 Programming for Powerlifting and Bodybuilding (Simultaneously)

48:26 Exercise Order and Hypertrophy

01:00:23 Energy Balance and Recovery

01:05:44 The Pros and Cons of Weighted Vests

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello, everybody. It is Monday night, 7 p.m. Eastern Time. You know what that means. It's time for a live episode of Iron Culture presented by Mass. I'm Eric Trexler. I am joined by the Dr. Eric Helms. Helms. How are we doing tonight?
0:18.0	I'm doing well this Tuesday, uh, late morning.
0:22.5	Yeah, Monday, Tuesday, approximately Monday. Let's, let's settle on that.
0:28.5	Um, Helms, you are still prepping. Any updates? How are things going?
0:32.6	Things are going well. I've seen, uh, way ins into the 84s and, uh, from a conditioning perspective, we're ahead of the game.
0:41.6	I am essentially ready to get on stage if I was to wear board shorts, but I don't do that.
0:46.9	And yeah, from the bodybuilding perspective, we just a little shout back to last episode.
0:53.4	We need to get to that point where I'm no longer
0:55.3	attractive and then we're good, you know? Yeah. So, yeah. Is that a problem you notice a lot
0:59.9	day to day, just too attractive, kind of getting in the way of your day to day life? People don't
1:05.3	take me seriously. They just think I'm a, I'm a face in the physique. So it's, uh, it does help to, I guess,
1:13.7	humanize me by, by making myself less attractive. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. My wife hates when we go out in
1:19.7	public, uh, people just throw themselves at me. And it's not that they can't tell that she
1:25.2	and I are together. They just don't care. You know, they just say this is the only shot I'm going to get.
1:29.4	I'm going for it.
1:30.5	And it's, you know, it's super disrespectful.
1:32.3	It can really spoil the afternoon.
1:34.9	So I'm, that's one of the reasons I'm going to start losing some weight here is, again,
1:39.1	I just need to, much like yourself, get way less attractive.
1:42.6	So good luck with that. Good luck to both of us.
1:45.6	But Helms, I want to tease an article coming up in the new issue of Mass, which is coming out July 1st.
1:53.2	Of course, the Mass Research Review is what makes Iron Culture possible.
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