Ep 305 - What is Strength? (w/Drs. Adrian Kind, Conor Heffernan & Walter Veit)

Iron Culture

The MASS Crew

Sports & Recreation, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 827 Ratings

🗓️ 11 December 2024

⏱️ 88 minutes

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Summary

Who is the strongest? Is it the person with the biggest Powerlifting total? Weightlifting total? The current Worlds Strongest Man/Woman Champion? Or, perhaps, the current Arnold Strongman Classic Champion? It’s an oft-debated question, typically occurring around the proverbial fitness water cooler. However, recently Dr. Kind, Dr. Veit, Dr. Heffernan, and our very own Dr. Helms made this debate into a multidisciplinary academic paper. Specifically, they asked the question through the lens of history, what has strength meant in society since the dawn of physical culture, what is strength philosophically, and finally, what is strength objectively, as measured in sport and exercise science? Join us as we discuss why asking this question is important, and how these very different disciplines turned out to be quite complementary in providing an answer.

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Time stamps:

00:00 Welcoming back Dr Conor Heffernan from the Obelisk

2:35 Adrian and Walter (re)-introduction

Kind 2023 Is bodybuilding a sport? https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00948705.2023.2234978

6:26 What is strength?

Kind 2024 What is strength? https://sportrxiv.org/index.php/server/preprint/view/467

14:21 Who in society decides what strength is?

29:45 A philosophical breakdown of the definition of strength

36:54 Strength measures of interest

56:02 Skill, efficiency, and intentionality

Bauman 1926 Observations on the Strength of the Chimpanzee and its Implications https://academic.oup.com/jmammal/article-abstract/7/1/1/866743

1:06:03 Eric’s tirade on sports science and exploring different strength variables

1:12:36 Categorising strength feats

1:18:46 The final sign-off (more plates, more dates?)

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome back, everyone. This is another episode of Iron Culture presented by Mass,
0:11.5	and I know that little addition is leaving some of you in a flurry, I'll be honest,
0:16.2	is leaving me with a sense of melancholy sadness, but also excitement for the future.
0:22.2	But mostly melancholy right now. I'm not even going to lie. I miss my friend Omar.
0:27.4	But I do have the neighbor who's come over to make me feel a bit better about this transition.
0:32.9	Over from the obelisk, I've got Dr. Connor Heffernan, who's come to join me.
0:38.3	He's sitting in the spot on the pyramid where normally Omar would sit there and I could look fondly over.
0:44.2	And at least I see a familiar face.
0:45.8	So welcome back to the podcast, Connor.
0:48.0	How you doing?
0:49.1	I'm good.
0:49.9	I'm your friendly neighbor there with the sugar, the dressing game that isn't fully, fully tied
0:56.0	on properly and is sitting in a way that makes you uncomfortable. I'm here to bring some of
1:01.4	the old back into the new. And I appreciate that. No, thank you so much. Now, it's great. We've got a
1:08.3	pretty cool episode today and this is one of our pre-recorded podcast episodes
1:13.9	where we're talking about history, we're talking about culture, we're going to be talking
1:20.3	about science. So for anyone who was a little scared, and I did see some comments on the
1:25.0	YouTube's, or they're like, oh, I hope this isn't going to become just all science, all mass, all the time.
1:31.9	I think you're underestimating how many people like the culture and the history.
1:35.5	Don't worry.
1:36.4	We try to tell you.
1:37.7	It's more just like we got some heavy hitters who are going to be here a lot on the science side.
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