This Is Your Brain on Strength Training
Research is mounting that strength training is not only good for our biceps, but also for our brains, improving our learning, memory, and focus. That goes for other forms of exercise, too, like cardio...
19 Touko 202528min
The Impact of Cardio Fitness on Strength Gains
If you improve your cardio fitness, will you also perform better in the gym and recover faster between sets? That's a common hypothesis in the gym world. If proven true, it would be another good reaso...
12 Touko 202530min
Building Muscle After 40
Forty might be the new twenty, and for many, life feels better than ever. But physical signs of aging are starting to creep up on us at that age. Our backs ache a bit more than ten years ago; we feel ...
5 Touko 202554min
How Many Sets per Muscle Group and Workout?
Is there too much of a good thing, or should you just keep adding sets to your workouts to grow bigger and stronger? In episode 32, we discussed a meta-regression analysis on weekly set volume for hy...
28 Huhti 202529min
Results from Maxing out in the Bench Press Every Day
Ten years ago we got an awesome study on powerlifters and weightlifters maxing out in the squat daily. Now, a group of physical therapy students have replicated that study, but in the bench press in...
21 Huhti 202536min
Signs You Might Be Ego Lifting – New Mailbag!
Which type of bicep curl is best if you want to grow your biceps? How do you know if you are applying progressive overload and pushing yourself, or just ego lifting? And what's the point of accessory ...
14 Huhti 202548min
You Should Do More Than One Type of Bicep Curl
Which type of bicep curl is best if you want to grow your biceps? A new, impressive bicep study adds to the evidence that just doing regular curls might not be optimal, comparing bicep growth between ...
6 Huhti 202525min
Why Cycle between Bulking and Cutting?
If you want to build more muscle mass, is it a good strategy to bulk up first before cutting down to the same weight again, hopefully with more quality mass on your body than you started out with? Bo...
31 Maalis 202535min
