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The Stronger By Science Podcast

Differences in Gains Between Individuals, and What You Can Do About It

The Stronger By Science Podcast
The Stronger By Science Podcast

In today's episode, Eric briefly addresses some feedback and responses to his previous article and segment about reverse dieting. After that, it’s all about differences in gains between individuals. Greg begins by exploring research that describes the degree to which training-induced improvements in strength, muscularity, and aerobic fitness vary from person to person. After that, Greg leans on the available research to provide evidence-based advice about what you can actually do about it, particularly if you suspect that you’re experiencing below-average gains.

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TIME STAMPS

Intro/Announcements (0:00)

Reverse dieting: feedback, responses, and a clarification (2:17)

Feat of Strength (22:10)

How much do muscle growth and strength gains differ between people? (25:10)

Hypertrophy variation in response to resistance training (29:08)

Strength and hypertrophy variation in response to resistance training (33:10)

Aerobic fitness variation in response to endurance training (36:56)

How much do strength gains vary? A look at SBS survey data and empirical data across the field (39:08)

Why is there so much inter-individual variability? (50:09)

What can you do about it? (59:21)

Make sure you have your ducks in a row outside of the gym (1:00:01)

Keep training (1:02:33)

Train more/harder (1:05:37)

Measure more variables (1:12:52)

Experiment with different training styles (1:18:28)

Embrace other benefits of training and/or find another entire type of training that you respond better to (1:31:14)

1:45:16 Summary/conclusions

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