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Listen on Apple Podcasts | Listen on Spotify | Listen on Youtube How do you overcome a strength plateau? Does high-intensity cardio affect your hormones? Chinups versus pullups? What has been my greatest decision? All that and more in this podcast. This podcast is a Q&A, but it’s a bit different from the kind you’ll typically find here on Muscle For Life. In my usual Q&A episodes, I take a question from email or Instagram and then fully answer it in an episode of the podcast every week. However, over on Instagram , I’ve started doing weekly Q&As in the stories, and it occurred to me that many podcast listeners might enjoy hearing these questions and my short answers. So, instead of talking about one thing in an episode, I’m going to cover a variety of questions. And keep in mind some of these questions are just for fun. So if you want to ask me questions in my Instagram stories, follow me on Instagram (@muscleforlifefitness), and if I answer your question there, ...

According to bodybuilding purists, if you’re not doing the back squat , you’re wrong. While you can make your legs “not small” with exercises like the leg press, leg extension, and lunge, they say, you’ll never get the chiseled, tree-trunk legs that result only from the back squat. Part of the reason the back squat reigns supreme is it’s so freaking hard, making a big squat a rite of passage of sorts for weightlifters.   The back squat requires just about every major muscle group in your body to work in concert to generate a tremendous amount of force, as well as near picture-perfect form if you’re ever going to put up impressive numbers. You can cheat your way through the bench press and even the deadlift and eventually move heavy loads, but not the back squat. If you don’t have the whole-body strength and technique, there’s no way to wiggle or jigger the weight up. You just get stuck. A good squat is worth a lot more than bragging rights, though. It’s also one of the ...

It’s estimated that there are over 2+ million scientific papers published each year, and this firehose only seems to intensify. Even if you narrow your focus to fitness research, it would take several lifetimes to unravel the hairball of studies on nutrition, training, supplementation, and related fields. This is why my team and I spend thousands of hours each year dissecting and describing scientific studies in articles, podcasts, and books and using the results to formulate our 100% all-natural sports supplements and inform our coaching services.  And while the principles of proper eating and exercising are simple and somewhat immutable, reviewing new research can reinforce or reshape how we eat, train, and live for the better.  Thus, each week, I’m going to share five scientific studies on diet, exercise, supplementation, mindset, and lifestyle that will help you gain muscle and strength, lose fat, perform and feel better, live longer, and get and stay healthier.  ...