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Iron Culture presented by MASS

Eric Helms & Eric Trexler

EN398 episodes
healthfitness

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...

Episodes (398)

BONUS - Drop Sets & Myo-Reps: The Best Way to Use Them (w/ Eric Helms & Steve Ha...

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Sep 9, 20261:06:36completed

Ep 388 - What Most Bodybuilders and Their Coaches Miss (ft. Richard Collins)

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Sep 3, 20261:35:42pending

Ep 387 - Energy Cost of Building Muscle

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Aug 26, 20261:02:03pending

Ep 386 - Sleep, Hypertrophy, and Creatine

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Aug 20, 20261:19:12pending

Ep 385 - Do Studies on Untrained Lifters Apply to Trained Lifters?

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Aug 12, 20261:18:26pending

BONUS: Bulking Is Dead - Eric Helms & Steve Hall

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Aug 5, 20261:15:09pending

Ep 384 - Is Ultrasound Lying About Your Gains?

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Jul 29, 20261:22:41pending

Ep 383 - Q&A: Imbalances, Fatigue, & REDs

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Jul 22, 20261:05:43pending

Ep 382 - The Science of Building Bone (ft. Dr.Lora Giangregorio)

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Jul 15, 20261:26:24pending

BONUS: Are Fitness Trackers Worth It? - Eric Helms & Steve Hall

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Jul 8, 20261:14:10pending

Ep 381 - Q&A: GLP-1s, Tendon Training, & Rep Ranges

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Jul 1, 20261:16:16pending

Ep 380 - Bulking, Cutting, and Recomping

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Jun 25, 20261:20:52pending

Ep 379 - Behind the Scenes (Iron Culture Documentary) ft. Omar Isuf

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Jun 17, 20261:33:15pending

BONUS: Revive Stronger - Fatigue, Progress & The Psychology of Bodybuilding (ft....

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Jun 10, 20261:12:09pending

Ep 378 - Social Media Protein Debates

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Jun 3, 20261:19:07pending

Ep 377 – MRV/MAV, Diet Breaks & Refeeds

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May 27, 20261:12:12pending

Ep 376 - Weight Loss Resistance

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May 20, 20261:06:51pending

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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May 6, 20261:12:52pending

Ep 374 - Processing, Palatability, and Bingeing

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Apr 29, 20261:25:45pending

Ep 373 - Does Bone Predict Hypertrophy?

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Apr 22, 20261:30:14pending

Ep 372 - New ACSM Lifting Guidelines

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Apr 15, 20261:43:52pending

Stronger Culture - The Mental Side of Bodybuilding Nobody Talks About

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Apr 8, 20261:11:01pending

Ep 371 - Popular Pseudoscience

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Ep 370 - Calories: Labels vs Reality

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Mar 25, 20261:08:46pending

Ep 369 - New Controversy in LDL Research

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Mar 18, 20261:18:45completed

Iron Stronger - 1%er Habits The Best Do In Bodybuilding (with Eric Helms & Steve...

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Mar 11, 20261:14:46completed

Ep 368 - Sheffield 2025 Champ Kjell Bakkelund

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Mar 5, 20261:19:51pending

Ep 367 - Q&A

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Feb 27, 20261:21:04pending

Ep 366 - New Studies: Long Muscle Lengths & Muscle Swelling

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Feb 18, 20261:16:31pending

Ep 365 - The Science Behind Toxic Online Fitness Culture

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Feb 12, 20261:07:34pending

BONUS - Confidence, Self-Doubt & Thinking Clearly in the Fitness Industry - Eric...

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Feb 2, 20261:22:00pending

Ep 364 - The Evolution of Physical Culture (ft. Dr. Conor Heffernan)

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Jan 27, 20261:11:25pending

Ep 363 - What Everyone's Getting Wrong About New Dietary Guidelines

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Jan 21, 20261:45:25pending

Ep 362 - WNBF Champ Shreenath Ganesh

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Jan 12, 20261:08:45pending

Ep 361 - Are N = 1 Anecdotes Meaningless?

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Jan 8, 20261:10:17pending

Ep 360 - WNBF Champs Eddie Saldana and Max Melchard

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Dec 29, 20251:29:31pending

Ep 359 - Tribalism in Evidence-Based Fitness

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Dec 24, 20251:29:20pending

Ep 358 - WNBF Champs Christine Reinhart and Sarah Oase

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Dec 17, 20251:44:49pending

Ep 357 - WNBF Champs Heitor Sousa and Adão Martins

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Dec 10, 20251:42:23pending

Ep 356 - Pain-Free Training (ft. Dr. John Rusin)

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Dec 3, 20251:06:55pending

Ep 355 - Mindset of a Bodybuilding Champion (ft. Oscar Moscat)

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Nov 26, 20251:09:05pending

Ep 354 - All About "Central" or "Systemic" Fatigue

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Nov 19, 20251:37:25pending

Ep 353 - How To Actually Embrace Long-Term Dietary Changes

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Nov 13, 20251:26:05pending

Ep 352 - Q&A (Protein, Mini-Cuts, and More)

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Nov 6, 20251:21:29pending

Ep 351 - New Research on Constrained Model and NSAIDs

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Oct 29, 20251:18:44pending

Ep 350 - Eric Helms Returns

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Oct 22, 20251:08:24pending

Ep 349 - Elite Weightlifting: An Inside Look (ft. Wil Fleming)

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Oct 15, 20251:13:10pending

Ep 348 - What Does Your Favorite Fit Pro's PhD Actually Mean?

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Oct 9, 20251:19:37pending

Ep 347 - New Retraction (and What It Means For "Evidence-Based" Fitness)

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Oct 2, 20251:16:02pending
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