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🗓️ 6 May 2024
⏱️ 94 minutes
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Wes Goodman recently completed his PhD in Exercise and Nutrition Science with an emphasis in Biomechanics and Motor Control at Montana State University under Dr. David Graham with our very own Dr. Helms on his committee as well. But he’s more than an academic, he’s a certified strength and conditioning specialist, gym owner, power lifter, strong man and Highland Games competitor! He studied how musculoskeletal modelling can help us understand the nuances of how the body performs squats. In this episode you’ll learn about the theory and application of motor control to lifting, the limitations of common biomechanics studies, and how modelling helps us understand that muscles can influence joints they don’t actually cross, and to Omar’s dismay, that a calf raise might actually be a squat accessory exercise!
00:00 Addressing the controversy before introducing our guest Sooper Gforce
Iron Culture Ep 269- Are Social Media PhDs Ruining Fitness? (feat Dr. Milo Wolf, Max Coleman & Dr. Pak) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgp9h5D0yqI
Enes 2024 Effects of Different Weekly Set Progressions on Muscular Adaptations in Trained Males: Is There a Dose-Response Effect? https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37796222/
04:37 Introducing Wes Goodman and what is biomechanics?
13:15 Necromechanics, what we can measure with biomechanics and its limitations
Iron Culture Ep. 163- All About EMG and Hypertrophy (ft. Andrew Vigotsky) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIccFeOknew
28:45 The degrees of freedom problem and clarifying
37:00 The dominant theories on motor control and neuroscience
45:04 Motor learning strategies in lifting and the theoretical/philosophical perspective
58:45 Cuing in (power)lifting and the approaches to providing feedback as coach
1:06:53 Wes’ PhD research: the intricacies of muscle function within tasks
1:20:05 Modelling in science and furthering our understanding of squat biomechanics
1:24:55 Wes’ initial thoughts on his data regarding the calves
1:29:29 Closing out and where to find Wes
Website: https://likeironstrong.com
IG: @likeironstrong_wes https://www.instagram.com/likeironstrong_wes/
ResearchGate https://www.researchgate.net/profile/William-Goodman-12
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0:00.0 | Eric, Omar, I'm in my basement in the bunker of bunkers because you have managed to embroil us into another series of controversies that unfortunately I would love to introduce our guest today, Mr. Super G-Force, but I can't even do that. I can't do my obligation |
0:23.2 | because we have to get these apologies out of the way. You knew you were getting this when you |
0:29.0 | decided to start a podcast with the most controversial figure in evidence-based fitness. |
0:34.0 | So I'm saying something. I say it is saying something. So would, I would apologize, but I feel like you brought this upon yourself. |
0:42.7 | I should have known better. You really should have. I take no responsibility for my responsibilities. So in complete contrast to that, I want to take some responsibility and take a moment to give two shoutouts. |
0:58.2 | One, to Mr. N1 himself, Cassam Hansen. |
1:03.3 | Those have been listening. |
1:04.8 | It was a little while ago where you did kind of a series discussing the meta-conversation of the role of science and the role of evidence-based fitness and some of the frustrations and the challenge of actually putting out content that is watched, read, received, and actually utilized, while also being useful and science-based in the modern game, especially with the focus on YouTube. We had Dr. Pack, we had Milo |
1:29.5 | Wolf. We had the young up-and-comer himself, Mr. Grilled Cheese sandwich, coming straight out of |
1:36.7 | the Schoenfeld lab. We had a really good roundtable with a lot of these up-and-comers, |
1:41.4 | you know, Max Coleman. It was awesome. And one of the things that I said, |
1:46.0 | which I want to be clear on, I got a little bit wrong, ironically. I mentioned, I alluded to a |
1:52.2 | reaction video that was done that Kassam did, and I thought it wasn't very charitable. And the thing |
1:58.3 | that I didn't note is that was actually a reaction to a reaction. |
2:01.2 | So our critique of the reaction video reacting to a reacting video, a little bit of irony there. |
2:08.4 | The take-home message I will say, first off, I do love Kassim's content. |
2:12.2 | And I think sometimes, and in many ways, he's been a victim of the, hey, you're just overcomplicating a disdrained hard bro. |
2:19.0 | But, yeah, I think it would be great if each time we interacted with other people's content or reacted to it, we really leverage the principle of charity. |
2:30.3 | And I think that's something we've talked about before. |
2:32.5 | But just the idea of asking yourself, |
2:34.5 | looking at the man in the mirror, am I being as charitable as possible in my interpretation |
2:38.4 | of this person's content, given all the complexities of trying to play the game as we need to |
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