Strength Science
What we still do not know
A survey of the open questions in strength training, which is a more useful thing to read than another confident answer to a settled one.
Topic
evidence
Every Entire Strength article tagged evidence — 10 pieces across 3 sections.
Strength Science
Who to trust: evaluating fitness information sources
The volume of training content vastly exceeds the volume of reliable training content. There are reasonably good signals for telling them apart.
Strength Science
Women in strength research: what we know and what is missing
A large majority of exercise science participants have historically been men, which means a lot of confident advice given to women rests on studies that did not include any.
Fuelling
Supplements worth considering, and the very short list
The supplement industry is enormous and the list of products with credible evidence for a healthy trained person fits comfortably in a paragraph.
Strength Science
Hormones: what training does to them and what that means
Post-workout hormonal spikes were once considered a central mechanism of muscle growth. The evidence has moved substantially, and the marketing has not.
Recovery
Active recovery, and the recovery methods that actually earn their time
The recovery industry sells a lot of interventions with modest effects while the two things that dominate recovery cost nothing and are widely neglected.
Strength Science
Muscle confusion and other things that are not real
A collection of gym beliefs that survived long past their evidence, and what the research actually supports instead.
Fuelling
Creatine: the one supplement with unambiguous evidence
Most supplements have thin evidence and enormous marketing. Creatine monohydrate has the opposite problem: an enormous evidence base and almost nothing interesting to say about it.
Strength Science
Reading a study without being fooled by it
A single paper is almost never news. Knowing which questions to ask of a study is what separates useful information from a headline built on twelve untrained undergraduates.
Fuelling
How much protein, actually, and when it stops mattering
The evidence on protein intake for lifters is unusually consistent, and it supports numbers well below what the supplement industry suggests and well above official general-population guidance.