Ep. 260 - Does Powerlifting with a Rounded Back Cause Pain?
In classic Iron Culture throwback style, it's just Omar and Dr. Helms on this one, while the leader of Trex-topia is away at a conference. Omar and Eric give you the classic banter you love, go over r...
5 Feb 20241h 3min
Ep. 259 - MASScast 6: Response Variation, Individualizing Training, and Protein Consistency (ft. Dr. Mike Zourdos and Dr. Eric Trexler
You've seen Iron Culture MASScasts before, but none quite like this. In this very special episode of Iron Culture, we're co-publishing the most recent episode of MASS Office Hours, which is a live p...
29 Jan 20241h 46min
Ep. 258 - The Rise of Lifting Antiscience
The trinity is reunited for the first time in 2024, with the Erics joining Omar for what is absolutely a monster episode. We tackle head-on the rise of antiscience in lifting. Currently, attacking exe...
22 Jan 20241h 56min
Ep. 257 - WNBF Pro World & Pro Natural Olympia 2023 Champion Beccy Pateman
In our third interview following the 2023 natural bodybuilding season, we sit down with another historic champion with a truly outlier series of performances. This time, Australian phenom Beccy Patema...
15 Jan 20241h 19min
Ep. 256 - The Challenge of Science Communication (feat Layne Norton)
Layne Norton and Eric Helms have some similarities in their areas of interest and expertise as well as their career paths. However, they have different personalities and distinct approaches to science...
8 Jan 20241h 28min
Ep. 255 - WNBF World, Yorton Cup & Ms. America 2023 Champion Natalie Hays
Natalie Hays did what no natural bodybuilder has ever done before. Not only did she win her OCB pro card, to then go on and win the Yorton Cup pro title, but she also then won the Ms. America pro titl...
1 Jan 20241h 53min
Ep. 254 - Do Fat Burners Actually Work?
Happy Holidays cultists! We sincerely thank you all for joining us every week to explore the history, science and culture of the iron and we look forward to doing it more in 2024! In this episode, Oma...
25 Des 20231h 7min
Ep. 253 - 2023 Lightweight WNBF Pro World Champion Dirk Emmerich
We are joined today by pro natural bodybuilding world champion Dirk Emmerich. Dirk is one of the many emerging stars of the newest era of competitive natural bodybuilding. In 2021, in his very first b...
18 Des 20231h 10min
