Episode 120 - A Deep Examination of “Specificity”

Iron Culture

The MASS Crew

Sports & Recreation, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 827 Ratings

🗓️ 24 May 2021

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

Principle of specificity bro, everybody knows that? But do they? What’s more specific to a squat 1RM, a leg press 1RM, or doing a set of 10 on squats? Why does squatting have just as good of transference to leg press strength as it does to squatting, but not the other way around? Why won’t training tricep pushdowns in the 6-8 rep range improve your lockout on bench press more effectively than tricep pushdowns in the 15-20 rep range? The answers to these questions, and more, are covered in this episode of Iron Culture.

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0:00.0	Eric, I got some good news and I got some bad news.
0:03.0	What do you want first?
0:05.0	What?
0:06.0	You're that type of person?
0:08.0	I don't trust people that want good news first because you need to hear the bad to...
0:13.0	No, no, no, it gives you momentum and it gives you put you in a good mood to deal with the bad.
0:17.0	Oh, God, this is awkward. I don't have any good news.
0:20.0	I was really hoping you were going to say
0:22.2	bad news and I could then fabricate as you're answering, as I'm answering about bad news,
0:26.9	some sort of good news to, you know, curtail the effects of said bad news.
0:31.5	Well, now that you've been saying all that, I hope you've had the time to fabricate some good news.
0:35.2	So go. We're united together and we're together forever.
0:38.6	Maybe not physically because we will leave this mortal coil at some point.
0:43.8	Maybe, maybe not.
0:44.7	Who knows what's going on with technology.
0:46.7	But we'll exist in the digital medium forever.
0:49.8	And I think that's a wonderful thing, that we're truly truly united together helping lifters for perpetuity.
0:56.1	That's good news. Yeah, I'll take it. Thank you. That's honestly good news. I feel great.
0:59.6	Yeah, you really lifted my whole spirits. Okay, here's the bad news. So, of course, I want to read the
1:04.8	reviews, the hot reviews, the gossip, the information, what the people are saying. Okay, we got to go right down to the people.
1:12.4	And I was excited because we received three new reviews on iTunes in the Canadian section
1:19.7	because I'm Canadian.
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