SNR #204: Greg Nuckols - Research Breakdown: Concurrent Training & Fat Free Mass Index
Sigma Nutrition Radio
Danny Lennon
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🗓️ 1 November 2017
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Greg Nuckols is on the show to review two recent research papers; one looking at concurrent training and the interference effect, and the other looking at the fat-free mass index in athletes.
Greg Nuckols is the founder of StrongerByScience.com, a website that provides comprehensive information about how to get stronger and more jacked. Greg has over a decade of experience under the bar, and a BS in Exercise and Sports Science. He’s held 3 all-time world records in powerlifting in the 220 and 242 classes, and is pursuing graduate research at UNC-Chapel Hill, under the supervision of Dr. Abbie Smyth-Ryan.
He’s trained hundreds of athlete and regular folks, both online and in-person. He’s written for many of the major magazines and websites in the fitness industry, including Men’s Health, Men’s Fitness, Muscle & Fitness, Bodybuilding.com, T-Nation, and Schwarzenegger.com.
Greg, along with Eric Helms and Dr. Mike Zourdos, created the monthly research review MASS (Monthly Applications in Strength Sports), which breaks apart some of the recent research carried out that is relevant to strength athletes, bodybuilders and powerlifters.
Research Papers Discussed In This Episode:
Study #1: Eddens et al., 2017 - The Role of Intra-Session Exercise Sequence in the Interference Effect: A Systematic Review with Meta-Analysis
Study #2: Trexler et al., 2017 - Fat-Free Mass Index in NCAA Division I and II Collegiate American Football Players
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| 0:00.0 | So what they did is they found photographs of the Mr. America winners from around the time they won. |
| 0:15.0 | And based on photographs from like magazine covers, they tried to estimate their body fat percentage to calculate |
| 0:22.6 | ffmI. |
| 0:23.6 | Like, this is bodybuilding not a forum type stuff. |
| 0:27.6 | What even is that? |
| 0:29.6 | They found pictures of these guys in bodybuilding magazines from the time and said, like, |
| 0:35.6 | yeah, it looks like about 10% fat and that's that's how they |
| 0:40.3 | uh actually did that god damn it i i still can't get over this like how did this get public Hello and welcome to another episode of Sigma Nutrition Radio. |
| 1:10.2 | We are at episode 204 today. And as always, |
| 1:15.1 | I am your host, Danny Lennon. Today I'm delighted to be rejoined on the show by Greg |
| 1:20.1 | Knuckles, who is back after, well, his first appearance way back in like episode 73, 74, I think, around that time point. |
| 1:31.9 | And today, Greg is going to be doing another one of our research breakdown episodes, |
| 1:36.3 | where he's going to take two specific recent research papers and dive into them into much greater detail. |
| 1:43.4 | The two specific papers we're going to be looking at |
| 1:45.8 | are going to be linked up over on the show notes page, |
| 1:49.0 | along with any other research that we mentioned |
| 1:51.0 | and a other thing that's relevant to today's show. |
| 1:54.2 | So that's going to be over at sigmautrition.com |
| 1:56.8 | slash episode 204. |
| 2:00.4 | And if you are interested in getting more research breakdowns and this one thing |
| 2:05.0 | isn't enough, then you can go and check out Greg's own publication Mass, where him, Eric Helms and |
| 2:11.6 | Mike Zordos breakdown research in text, audio and video form every month that you get delivered to you. |
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