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 includes casual conversations between the two hosts on a variety of topics, discussions with a panel of experts...

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Iron Culture presented by MASS

Episodes (369)

Yesterday Ep 366 - New Studies: Long Muscle Lengths & Muscle Swelling
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Iron Culture presented by MASS

Feb 18, 2026
1½ hours
53 MB

In this episode of Iron Culture, Eric Trexler and Eric Helms discuss perpetually hot topics in the fitness and bodybuilding community, focusing on recent research findings related to training at long muscle lengths and the implications of muscle swelling on hypertrophy reserach. They explore the nuances of lengthened bias training, the importance of sampling variance in research, and the impact of muscle swelling on hypertrophy measurements. If you're in the market for some new lifting gear or apparel, be sure to use discount code "MRR10" for a 10% discount at elitefts.com Chapters 00:00 Intro 04:39...

Iron Culture presented by MASS

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

Eric Helms & Eric Trexler

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