Welcome to another episode of the Stronger by Science Podcast.

In this week's episode, Greg and I share the feats of strength duties and then we take a deep dive into some research on how sleep affects performance and body composition. We also have an interview with Dr.

Brandon Roberts who tells us about his current bodybuilding prep, why some people

respond better to training than others, and why sleep is so important for people who lift.

As always, thank you for listening and enjoy the episode.

Welcome back to the Stronger Biescience Podcast. This is your host Eric Trexler. I'm joined today by temporary guest host, Greg Knuckles.

Thanks for having me back on. You bet. So Feats of Strength is a fan favorite in terms of our segments and I am going to let you take it

But I want to get one in first so there's a pretty lively debate about whether

bodybuilding is a great sport or the greatest sport.

And I would argue that it is in fact the greatest sport.

And what that means is that by winning a pro bodybuilding show, that's one of the greatest feats of strength you could really hope to accomplish

despite the fact that there's no force being generated. But in this case we've got one of the all-time greats. The first feet of strength this week is Dexter Jackson.

So we record this on like a 45-week time delay. This happened like approximately a year and a half ago.

But no, so Dexter Jackson a few weeks ago won the IFBB, Tampa Pro.

And Dexter, nicknamed the Blade, is an absolute legend.

We've talked about him on the show before.

But I'm looking at his contest history on Wikipedia. He had a

top 10 Olympia finish in 1999. A top 10 Olympialympia finish in 1999 when I was 8 years old.

Yeah.

Think about what you were doing in 1999 and then consider the fact that he is very much in the running to potentially win in Olympia in a few weeks.

I was prepping for Y2K.

I think we all were and successfully I would say I think you you weathered pretty well.

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