Will Collagen Keep Your Joints Healthy and Your Skin Young?
Release Date: 08/11/2025
Anabolic Steroids Weaken Your Tendons
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Bit of a mixed bag for you today, with three unrelated topics. First, we look into why athletes on anabolic–androgenic steroids so often experience tendon injuries. As far as we can remember, a possible explanation has been that the tendons can’t keep up with the fast gains of muscle mass and strength from AAS use, but indicates that there’s more going on here! Second, there's growing evidence that isometric training at long muscle lengths can build equal amounts of muscle as traditional full-range-of-motion training. We have on isometric training in resistance-trained subjects...
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Rest Time Might Be Overrated if Volume Is Matched
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How long you is an important factor to consider, as longer rest times often lead to better training results since you can perform more reps in each set at any given weight compared to shorter rests. But what if you compensate for shorter rest times by doing more sets, until you’ve reached the same number of reps you would have been able to hit with longer rest between your sets? Today, we're that compared a traditional 2-minute rest between sets with resting for just 20 seconds, but doing additional sets until the participants had completed the same number of reps as the longer rest group....
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To Keep Getting Stronger You Probably Need to Train More
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To maximize strength and muscle growth, how many sets should you perform per week for each muscle and exercise? , we reported on that found surprisingly low levels of training volume were sufficient to maximize strength gains. To say that had us confused is to put it mildly. It’s finally time to revisit the topic of training volume for strength. Today, we have of the same data from a year ago, showing that you might actually have to train a lot more to maximize your strength gains. Phew. All is right with the world again. *** Do you like what you hear so far? Please leave a five-star...
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How to Train the Bench Press for Big, Explosive Pecs
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If you want to get a stronger bench press, bigger pecs, and become more explosive when pushing or punching, should you train for max strength, muscle growth, or explosiveness? And what is the overlap between those three training philosophies? Today, that compares exactly this, and give you our recommendations on how to plan your own strength training for these different goals. *** Do you like what you hear so far? Please leave a five-star review in your podcast player. And hit that follow button! You can also follow us on Instagram. You’ll find Daniel at , and Philip at . Become a part of ....
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Ultra-Processed vs Unprocessed Foods – Looking past the Macros
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We've all heard that we should eat healthy, specifically to avoid ultra-processed food. But why? Yes, it’s easy to overeat ultra-processed food because it’s tasty. But if you count your calories and don’t overeat, are ultra-processed foods still bad for you? In today's episode, that put people on either a diet consisting of ultra-processed foods or unprocessed foods. The researchers wanted to know a lot more than just if the participants would lose or gain fat weight, and they tested a lot of fascinating stuff, from sperm quality to phthalates (plastics) and lithium levels in their...
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How Do You Reduce Muscle Soreness? New Q&A!
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Are there any scientifically proven methods to reduce muscle soreness after hard workouts? And if so, should you? We’re back with another episode based on listener questions, and this is a good one. Besides muscle soreness, we discuss paused deadlifts and paused squats, as well as the optimal time of day for working out. See the timestamps below for all questions! All questions for this episode came from . Join us there and be on the lookout for when we post asking for listener questions; if you have one you’d like answered on the podcast! Timestamps: 02:20 - Question 1: Is there a...
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This Is Why You Don’t Need to Stress about Protein Timing
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We have two topics for you today. First out is examining the impact of timing your protein intake immediately before or after workouts. Does it matter? And if so, how big are the differences? Then we tackle a topic a lot of you have been curious about: ”Daniel is training weird.” Let’s explain. Daniel has been performing the big barbell lifts almost daily for over fifty days, and he feels stronger and in better shape than he has in a long time. He’s also , and it seems you have questions. What’s his reasoning behind this experiment? How long does he plan to continue with it? What...
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Will Fat Loss or TRT Boost Your Testosterone More?
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Testosterone replacement therapy (TRT) is becoming more common as more and more men suffer from low testosterone. But for many men, it might just treat the symptoms instead of the root cause: unhealthy body fat levels. In today's episode, we discuss that compared one of the new weight loss drugs (tirzepatide) to TRT, to examine which is more effective for treating low testosterone. The results? Way beyond interesting! You’re going to want to hear this. We also talk about other ways to increase your testosterone levels naturally. *** Do you like what you hear so far? Please leave a five-star...
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8 vs 16 Sets per Week for Muscle and Strength
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should you do weekly for your muscle groups to maximize strength and muscle gains? That is the eternal question for gymgoers, and even though this is a relatively well-researched subject, we still can’t say for sure. Let’s look into that had participants perform eight sets of leg presses per week with one leg and 16 sets with the other, to see which leg got the biggest gains in muscle mass and strength after five months of training. In this episode, we discuss this study, its results, and its practical implications for your strength training. *** Do you like what you hear so far? Please...
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How Much Do Your Biceps Grow from Rows?
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Rows are great for developing your upper back, but sufficiently? That certainly would be a good incentive to do more boring rows and less direct biceps work, to kill two swole birds with one stone. So, what does the science have to say about this? In today’s episode, we break down in which participants trained dumbbell rows with one arm and bicep curls with the other for eight weeks, and measured how the arms grew. The results were telling. *** Do you like what you hear so far? Please leave a five-star review in your podcast player. And hit that follow button! You can also follow us on...
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That’s right, we have a new study to discuss, looking into the hype and claims of collagen supplements!
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