Welcome to another Q&A episode of the Stronger by Science Podcast.

In this episode we discussed a variety of topics including the effects of birth control

and the menstrual cycle on periodization, the concept of dietary fat cycling, and the time course of muscle and

connective tissue adaptations to training. Greg also gives some good tips on how to

turn a good hypertrophy program into a strength program and how to keep a neutral pelvis while squatting and

deadlifting. Thanks for listening and enjoy the episode.

Welcome back to the Stronger by Science podcast. This is your host Eric Trexler and one man can't do it all on a podcast so my assistant today is Greg knuckles. Greg, thanks for coming by.

Thanks for having me on. Now we are recording this episode the day after two days after two days after the United States put an absolute

Whooping on the Netherlands in the women's World Cup.

And we want to use that opportunity

to let everybody in the Netherlands know

that you're a joke.

You're a clown. You're a clown.

Yeah, so it was great that the U.S. women won. It was especially sweet though that they won over the Netherlands.

So we joke around a lot on the show, but I'm going to give you a sneak peek into some very real completely honest analytics that we have for favorability of this podcast.

So after we released the first episode,

seen as this is the first fitness podcast,

you know, we didn't really know what we were doing,

we didn't have anything to compare it to, so we just kind of put it out there,

asked people, what did you think? What are some things we did well? What are some things we can improve on?

And most of the feedback was overwhelmingly positive. However, we did have four very, very critical pieces of feedback.

messages from four people who just really, really disliked the podcast.

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