Iron Culture presented by MASS
Eric Helms & Eric Trexler
Iron Culture was started by Eric Helms and Omar Isuf as a means of exploring the world of physical culture and attempting to distill a unified philosophy of lifting and to help listeners find greater meaning from the iron. It's now hosted by Eric Helms and Eric Trexler, who repeatedly beg Omar to return as a guest.Iron Culture focuses on dispensing practical, useful information to the listener, bouncing from history, to philosophy, to contemporary lifting culture issues, to science. The format i...
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Episodes (398)
BONUS - Drop Sets & Myo-Reps: The Best Way to Use Them (w/ Eric Helms & Steve Ha...
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Ep 388 - What Most Bodybuilders and Their Coaches Miss (ft. Richard Collins)
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Ep 387 - Energy Cost of Building Muscle
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Ep 386 - Sleep, Hypertrophy, and Creatine
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Ep 385 - Do Studies on Untrained Lifters Apply to Trained Lifters?
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BONUS: Bulking Is Dead - Eric Helms & Steve Hall
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Ep 384 - Is Ultrasound Lying About Your Gains?
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Ep 383 - Q&A: Imbalances, Fatigue, & REDs
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Ep 382 - The Science of Building Bone (ft. Dr.Lora Giangregorio)
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BONUS: Are Fitness Trackers Worth It? - Eric Helms & Steve Hall
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Ep 381 - Q&A: GLP-1s, Tendon Training, & Rep Ranges
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Ep 380 - Bulking, Cutting, and Recomping
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Ep 379 - Behind the Scenes (Iron Culture Documentary) ft. Omar Isuf
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BONUS: Revive Stronger - Fatigue, Progress & The Psychology of Bodybuilding (ft....
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Ep 378 - Social Media Protein Debates
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Ep 377 – MRV/MAV, Diet Breaks & Refeeds
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Ep 376 - Weight Loss Resistance
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Ep 375 - Humility in Science
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BONUS: Stronger Culture - The Protein Ceiling: Real or Not a Needle Mover? (ft E...
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Ep 374 - Processing, Palatability, and Bingeing
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Ep 373 - Does Bone Predict Hypertrophy?
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Ep 372 - New ACSM Lifting Guidelines
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Stronger Culture - The Mental Side of Bodybuilding Nobody Talks About
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Ep 371 - Popular Pseudoscience
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Ep 370 - Calories: Labels vs Reality
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Ep 369 - New Controversy in LDL Research
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Iron Stronger - 1%er Habits The Best Do In Bodybuilding (with Eric Helms & Steve...
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Ep 368 - Sheffield 2025 Champ Kjell Bakkelund
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Ep 367 - Q&A
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Ep 366 - New Studies: Long Muscle Lengths & Muscle Swelling
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Ep 365 - The Science Behind Toxic Online Fitness Culture
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BONUS - Confidence, Self-Doubt & Thinking Clearly in the Fitness Industry - Eric...
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Ep 364 - The Evolution of Physical Culture (ft. Dr. Conor Heffernan)
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Ep 363 - What Everyone's Getting Wrong About New Dietary Guidelines
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Ep 362 - WNBF Champ Shreenath Ganesh
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Ep 361 - Are N = 1 Anecdotes Meaningless?
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Ep 360 - WNBF Champs Eddie Saldana and Max Melchard
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Ep 359 - Tribalism in Evidence-Based Fitness
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Ep 358 - WNBF Champs Christine Reinhart and Sarah Oase
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Ep 357 - WNBF Champs Heitor Sousa and Adão Martins
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Ep 356 - Pain-Free Training (ft. Dr. John Rusin)
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Ep 355 - Mindset of a Bodybuilding Champion (ft. Oscar Moscat)
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Ep 354 - All About "Central" or "Systemic" Fatigue
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Ep 353 - How To Actually Embrace Long-Term Dietary Changes
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Ep 352 - Q&A (Protein, Mini-Cuts, and More)
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Ep 351 - New Research on Constrained Model and NSAIDs
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Ep 350 - Eric Helms Returns
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Ep 349 - Elite Weightlifting: An Inside Look (ft. Wil Fleming)
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Ep 348 - What Does Your Favorite Fit Pro's PhD Actually Mean?
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Ep 347 - New Retraction (and What It Means For "Evidence-Based" Fitness)
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