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Old school training

Old-school gym lore suggested that each pound of muscle burned 50 calories per day. The more common figure you’ll hear from sciency folks is 6 calories. The truth is somewhere in the middle.

Without any ado, I give you the percentages of male steroid users per population in the United States. Steroids here is used informally (and incorrectly) as a catch-all term for androgenic anabolic steroids and other performance enhancing drugs, such as growth hormone, insulin and thyroid hormone. 2…

Pop tarts are old news. Diets are old news. So what’s next?

It seems like the anti-science backlash is beginning. (warning: this is a 2100 word post about the scientific process. for a TL;DR, jump to “Is there really a conflict” at the bottom.) The old-guard of strength coaches sat quiet long enough. For these people, science is useful insofar as it verif…

I’m really thrilled about how the first part of this series went over. To date, it’s the most-read article on this site, and beat the old one-day record by more than 30%. Now, I’m not primarily happy because of the site traffic. I’m primarily happy because of how near and dear to me this topic is,…