Ep 315 - Training Hard Versus Training Smart

Iron Culture

The MASS Crew

Sports & Recreation, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 827 Ratings

🗓️ 20 February 2025

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

Iron Culture is officially part of the 3-plate club. In this episode of Iron Culture, hosts Eric Trexler and Eric Helms celebrate their milestone 315th episode while diving into various topics including testosterone replacement therapy (TRT), the efficacy of citrulline malate, training techniques for hypertrophy, managing tendinopathy, the health benefits of coffee, and programming for individuals with obesity. They also discuss how to improve training intensity and the importance of enthusiasm in lifting.

Time stamps:

0:00 Introduction to another addition of Iron Culture

1:35 See the entire MASS team speak at the Sports Nutrition Association Annual Conference
https://sportsnutritionassociation.com/sna-annual-2025-conference/

5:55 Questions about testosterone replacement therapy
Iron Culture Ep. 136- All About Testosterone & TRT (Yeah We Go There) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5PDtstlmJ0
Tang Fui 2017 The effects of testosterone on body composition in obese men are not sustained after cessation of testosterone treatment https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28561278/

20:42 An update on citrulline malate

30:18 Quantifying volume of time-saving techniques
Coleman 2022 Muscular Adaptations in Drop Set vs. Traditional Training: A meta-analysis https://journal.iusca.org/index.php/Journal/article/view/135
Sødal 2023 Effects of Drop Sets on Skeletal Muscle Hypertrophy: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37523092/

34:09 Eric’s tips for working around tendinopathy

40:43 Is caffeine bad for teeth and substituting coffee for decaf?

47:31 Hip flexion training for rectus femoris hypertrophy

49:35 Resistance training prescription for people with obesity trying to lose weight

56:24 Defining and increasing training intensity

1:00:46 Training Hard Versus Training Smart

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello everybody. It is Eric Trexler. I'm here with the good doctor, Eric Helms. It is Monday night. It's 7 p.m. Eastern time. And that means it is time for yet another edition, the 315th rendition of Iron Culture presented by Mass. So episode 315, which is, that's a huge, a huge
0:23.7	threshold for us because that means we're officially at the three plate level. Okay. So in the
0:29.4	lifting world, that's way more important than episode 300 or 200 or any other barrier you
0:34.5	might want to hit. I'm just, once we get to episode 405,
0:37.9	we're gonna have to do something really, really special.
0:41.3	But I tell you what, Helms, it's gonna be a quick episode.
0:44.1	We got about an hour here.
0:45.6	We're gonna dive in, we're gonna make sure that we answer
0:48.5	every question that could possibly be thought of in the chat.
0:52.1	Before we get to that, we've got a question that came in our little after-hours portal.
0:57.3	And by the way, folks, if you can't catch us live on YouTube on Monday nights, you can always
1:02.5	submit questions, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year, 366 on leap years,
1:08.9	and you could do that by going to mass research review dot com slash iron culture
1:14.2	one word but we got two questions actually three questions in a row on TRT from three totally
1:23.7	different people so this is um i've've, yeah, you got a question?
1:28.5	One obligated thing that we should talk about. If you like seeing us talk live, there is
1:35.2	actually an opportunity. If you want to travel to Austin, Texas, in April to see the entire
1:41.2	team speak live at this Sports Nutrition Association conference.
1:45.1	We have an annual conference, myself and Dr. Eric Trexler, we are on the board for the SNA.
1:50.8	But cool, cool, cool thing happening.
1:53.5	Mass is sponsoring the event, meaning that Dr. Lauren Kalenzhenza Semple and Dr. Mike Zerdos will also be there,
1:59.3	along with a bunch of other amazing speakers to include
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