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
research
Every Entire Strength article tagged research — 6 pieces across 1 section.
Strength Science
Does muscle damage matter for growth?
Muscle damage was long assumed to be one of the mechanisms driving hypertrophy. The evidence increasingly suggests it is a side effect that carries a cost.
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What muscle protein synthesis measurements actually tell you
A large share of nutrition advice for lifters is built on acute measurements of muscle protein synthesis, which turn out to be a poor predictor of long-term muscle growth.
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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.
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Range of motion and the case for training muscles long
One of the more interesting recent lines of research suggests that where in the range you load a muscle affects how much it grows.
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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.