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The Stronger By Science Podcast

Protein, Lactate, and Strength Phases to Boost Hypertrophy

The Stronger By Science Podcast

Stronger By Science

Strength, Muscle, Eric Trexler, Supplements, Powerlifting, Comedy, Bodybuilding, Physique, Stronger By Science, Health & Fitness, Fitness, Strength Sports, Nutrition, Greg Nuckols, Evidence-based Fitness, Weightlifting

4.6950 Ratings

🗓️ 10 December 2020

⏱️ 126 minutes

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Summary

Today’s episode features some Good News and Feats of Strength, followed by a huge Research Roundup to get you all caught up on recent happenings in the world of exercise science and sports nutrition. Topics covered include optimal protein intake, essential amino acids, meal timing, lactate, relationships between sleep and hunger, and muscle memory. Greg also discusses a recent study suggesting that adding strength phases to your training may promote greater hypertrophy. This study has made the rounds on social media and been widely discussed in the evidence-based fitness world, but there are some important details to consider before drawing conclusions on the topic. Finally, to play them out, Eric and Greg discuss some major food controversies that have shaken Eric to his core.

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0:00.0

Welcome back to the Stronger by Science Podcast. In today's episode, of course we've got some good news and some feeds of strength, but the main portion of today's episode is all about research. We've got a big research round-up segment to get you all caught up on recent research in the fields of exercise science and sports nutrition.

0:18.0

The topics we cover include optimal protein intake, essential amino acids, meal timing, lactate, the relationship

0:24.9

between sleep and hunger, and an update on muscle memory. On top of that, Greg also

0:30.1

discusses a brand new study that suggested that adding strength phases to your

0:34.8

training may promote greater hypertrophy and this study has gotten a lot of

0:39.5

attention it's been discussed a lot in the evidence-based fitness world, but there are some important

0:43.9

details to consider about that study before you draw conclusions on the topic.

0:49.0

Finally, to play us out, Greg and I discuss some major food controversy, some of which have very greatly upset me.

0:55.3

As always, thank you for listening and we hope you enjoy the show.

1:00.6

Welcome back to the Stronger Buy Science Podcast. This is your one and only host Eric Trexler, but today I am joined by a special temporary guest co-host. His name is Greg Knuckles. Greg, how are you doing?

1:12.0

Doing well, how are you?

1:12.8

Doing well, how are you?

1:13.8

I am doing well.

1:15.4

I want to start out with some intro material, some announcements here.

1:19.1

First of all, thank you sincerely to all of our new mass subscribers.

1:23.8

We had a lot of people sign up to mass during our big Black Friday sale,

1:28.4

which is awesome.

1:29.4

It allowed us to raise a lot of money for the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, and it's really exciting

1:34.9

to have a lot of new faces in the mass community.

1:39.1

And on the topic of communities, be sure to join our Strongerer By Science Facebook group and our subreddit.

1:45.0

Those are some nice online communities where you can talk about stronger by science stuff, talk

1:50.0

about fitness and science and all the good stuff. In addition to that, be sure to sign up for

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