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

In today's episode, Greg and I answer listeners' questions about how and why to warm up,

some practical ways to quantify training volume and assess fatigue, how to tell if you're a non-responder

to creatine and much more.

Plus, as an added bonus, Greg gives a very detailed explanation of how to make the perfect

homemade ice cream. Remember, if you want your

questions answered on a future episode, be sure to submit those questions using one of

the links in the episode description. As always, thank you for listening and enjoy the show.

Welcome back to the Stronger By Science Podcast. This is another Q&A episode. I'm your host Eric Trexler and I'm joined by temporary guest host Greg knuckles.

Thanks for having me back on.

Of course. So the first question getting right to business is a question that comes up all the time when it comes to looking at research on hypertrophy and just practical programming.

By the way, the question comes from Chuck, the One-Eyed Dog. What is the best way to calculate volume for

hypertrophy training? Hard sets regardless of reps? Reps times weight times

sets? Question mark. Yeah, so this has been a topic of a fair amount of debate.

So the traditional way to calculate volume for normalizing programs within the literature has been to use

the volume load, which is sets times reps times weight, multiply those together.

It gives you your tonnage, you know,

nice happy number in pounds and kilograms.

It feels very scientific because you're calculating something and that's what was

used pretty much exclusively in the literature to normalize training programs or into equate them for decades, like at least two or three decades.

And as best I can tell, someone just started doing that and everyone else followed suit.

There wasn't a rigorous process leading up to that to make sure that that was actually the best way to equate training

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