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MASS APPEAL: GREG NUCKOLS AND MONTHLY APPLICATIONS IN STRENGTH SPORT
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Greg Nuckols was nice enough to stop by and talk shop about MASS – Monthly Application in Strength Sport – his new monthly resource that just became available today.
An athlete or coach who knows and truly understands the latest research has a huge advantage over his or her’s competitors. MASS is a shortcut that earmarks all the greatest and most recent research and is curated by some of the most respected coaches out there – Greg, Eric Helms, and Mike Zourdos.
Coaches who actually, you know, lift weights.
Greg offers some great insights below. Enjoy.
TG: Who’s geekier: you, Eric (Helms), Mike (Zourdos), or Gilbert and Lewis from “Revenge of the Nerds?”
TG: What was the impetus behind starting MASS? Also, what do you feel separates it from other research reviews out there?
GN: It was the logical solution to a set of problems we saw:
#1 – Most people are still quite uninformed about the science behind hypertrophy, strength development, and body composition. We’d never argue that science is inherently better than in-the-trenches experience, but we think science and experience work together much better than having either in isolation.
#2 – A lot of people who try to communicate science to the masses do so poorly. This can take several forms.
A lot of people just read the abstract, which is generally incomplete or misleading.
Some people read the full text, but can’t digest studies well enough to spot some of their bigger (and more important) details – stuff like methodology, the tools used to take measurements, or the statistical analysis can dramatically alter what you can take away from a study, but those things are often glossed over.
Finally, there’s the issue of contextualization and communication. Simply understanding a study doesn’t guarantee that you’ll be able to get the results and practical takeaways across to the reader, and it doesn’t guarantee that you’ll know how the findings can fit into day-to-day practice if you don’t actually have any coaching experience.
#3 – Trying to keep up with the research on your own can be absolutely overwhelming.
There are at least 50-60 journals that publish research that’s relevant to us at least semi-frequently, and they churn out 1000+ articles per month. Going through all those journals, picking out the relevant studies, and reading all of them takes me (conservatively) 40-50 hours per month.
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