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485: Volume, Intensity, and Frequency - Everything You'd Want to Know - Eric Helms Muscle and Strength Training Pyramid Level 2

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  Eric Helms of Team 3DMJ discusses the most important variables in resistance training programming - volume, intensity, and frequency and shares a nice compilation of research backed advice on these areas. Find all of these YouTube videos at https://www.youtube.com/user/Team3DMJ/videos   http://traffic.libsyn.com/appliedmusclescience/485_john_edit_helms.mp3

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481: Weighted Stretching – Another Tool in the Muscle Building Too Box

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Dr. Jacob Wilson seems to have rekindled interest in weighted stretching as a muscle building tactic While we wait for Dr. Wilson’s research to be published we review older studies from the 90s on birds that initiated interest in this tactic. John always reviews the full-text of every article, but you may view the free abstract by clicking here: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2142581  

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480: Do You Even Have to Count Reps? Timed Sets Rather than Rep Sets in Personal Training – Better or Worse?

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    Personal trainers used to have the job of counting reps, but these days I see more and more counting total time spent training. Is this a valid way to have clients exercise – timing set length and stopping when a certain time count is reached? Let’s examine a study. John always reviews the full-text of every article, but you may view the free abstract by clicking here http://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1691&context=gs_rp  http://traffic.libsyn.com/appliedmusclescience/480_-_final.mp3

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478: Can you Make Up for Less Training with More Protein?

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 http://traffic.libsyn.com/appliedmusclescience/478_-_final.mp3 It seems nowadays everyone is pushing for higher volume, higher frequency resistance training programs. But what about when life, injury, or recovery ability calls for periods of decreased training? Should you fear loss of gains or could you perhaps rely more on nutrition to keep the gain train chuggin. Today we review a research study on this topic and tackle different ways of viewing training and nutrition. John always reviews the full-text of every article, but you may view the free abstract by clicking here: http://journals.lww.com/nsca-jscr/Fulltext/2010/01001/Effects_Of_Resistance_Training_Volume_And_Whey.171.aspx .    

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463: 25-35 Reps Sets for Muscle Gains – The Pump is Real or We Need to Get Real?

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  While nowadays it seems many more bodybuilders are hybridizing their programming with powerlifting, there are still some who do very high rep sets and swear by training for the pump. Today we review a rare find – a study on WELL TRAINED lifters, comparing different rep ranges. John always reviews the full-text of every article, but you may view the free abstract by clicking here: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25853914 .     http://traffic.libsyn.com/appliedmusclescience/463_-__final.mp3

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