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@GregLehman In an enclosed space like a train or a waiting room- absolutely bad form. On the street or park, totally fine.

Does anyone else think that talking on your phone in public, even with earbuds, is poor form?

@fmfclips "The clinical benefit of CoQ10 is inconsistent at best; newer data shows no benefit, however the supplement is generally safe. I would not waste my money" - my lipidolgist

If you're on a statin, you should be supplementing with CoQ10 Statins block cholesterol synthesis via the HMG-CoA pathway, but that same pathway also produces CoQ10, which is essential for mitochondrial energy production When CoQ10 levels fall, mitochondrial function can suffer, with downstream effects on muscle health, brain health, and cardiovascular function Ubiquinol is generally preferred because it's the reduced, more bioavailable form, but ubiquinone has also shown benefits in studies and may still be effective at a high enough dose

@Jeukendrup Pseudoscience is enticing bec it’s easy to understand & offers miracle cures.

Understanding pseudoscience starts with understanding science itself. Science is a process aimed at getting closer to the truth. Pseudoscience, by contrast, lacks the methods and rigor that underpin scientific inquiry. Read more here: mssa.app/458

@farbood Many popular peptides aren't evidenced based w/ human RCT.

Thankfully it’s not belief based

@ChooseGoodKarma @Kick_Champ What a weak excuse for a man.

@Kick_Champ She asked so it was consensual?

Clavicular had a girl ARRESTED after she randomly SLAPPED him in the club 😳

@farbood Tell me without telling me you don't live in NY

Canceling my Function membership. Same labs through my insurance $65. Function charges me $309. Quest appointments are so easy now. I get lab orders for whatever I want from my doc, book with Quest, submit to my insurance and I get $3000 of labs for $65.

@DanielPink I don't have data but I'm guessing great ideas rarely, if ever, come up while scrolling.

A final reframe: Daydreaming isn't wasted time. It's time deployed differently. It’s where ideas are born.

Your best ideas don’t come when you’re working. They show up: • In the shower • On walks • Half-asleep That’s not a flaw. It’s a clue. 👇

@hjluks @marklaslett_NZ Yup. Lift progressively, do weight bearing/axial load activities & even add some jumping & balance work....plus eat enough protein calcium & adequate vitamin D.

Please stop telling people with osteoporosis not to lift anything heavy... I've heard it from docs, PTs, Trainers, etc... This might seem protective... but it's not. This risk calculation... A hip fracture in an older adult carries a one-year mortality rate of roughly 25 percent. Half of those who survive never walk independently again. That is the cost of fragility. The risk of a well-supervised, progressively loaded heavy (80-85% 1RM) strength program (LIFTMOR) is a muscle strain or a bruise. These are not equivalent risks, and treating them as equivalent, as avoidance does, is not caution. It is a decision to accept the larger risk in order to avoid the smaller one.

@Jbones72 @LincolnRestler Do you drive over the the speed limit? How about jay walk? It is against the law, right? Ticket folks for breaking traffic laws, but don't make them spend an entire day in CRIMINAL court for rolling through a red on an empty street.

@TrainingInNYC @LincolnRestler You know what prevents this? Don’t run a red light on your bike.

Ticketing cyclists more aggressively than drivers never made sense. Kudos to the Mamdani administration for reversing this. It is important that everyone follow the rules of the road - but a delivery worker missing a stop sign shouldn’t get swept up in deportation proceedings.

@Thefactsdude Time to eat lemon pound cake!

NOW: Afroman celebrates right outside Adams County courthouse after winning big in his defamation trial Afroman wins in unanimous fashion, defending his First Amendment rights against the Adams County Sheriff's Department. Officers Pound Cake, Lick’em Up Lisa, and the boys better have their Kleenex’s ready because this man’s about to drop some bombs! Freedom of speech! Power to the people! God Bless America!

@BrowngaGreg @coachblade @FondOfBeetles @Scienceofsport @icons_women Sports scientists have known this for a long time. Here is another one: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22561975/

A notable paper led by David Handelsman finds that sex-based differences in athletic performance are present before puberty, even without differences in circulating testosterone during that period! @FondOfBeetles @Scienceofsport @coachblade @icons_women #google_vignette" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">academic.oup.com/jes/article/10…

@BradSchoenfeld If you have time to shower, scroll & watch TV - you have time to workout.

Less than one-quarter of the population performs resistance training on a regular basis. Time is considered the primary barrier to participation. It shouldn't be. An emerging body of evidence shows that as little as two 30-minute resistance training sessions per week can produce meaningful improvements in strength, muscle hypertrophy, functional capacity, and various health-related outcomes. Several years ago we published a paper titled, "No Time to Lift? Designing Time-Efficient Training Programs for Strength and Hypertrophy" (PMID: 34125411) that detailed time-saving strategies for workouts. Here are some of the highlights: 1. Training efficiency can be enhanced by emphasizing bilateral, multijoint exercises performed through a full range of motion. 2. Incorporating techniques such as supersets, drop sets, and rest-pause training can reduce session duration by about half compared to traditional approaches, while still maintaining overall volume load. 3. When using moderate to higher repetition ranges, specific warm-ups may be largely unnecessary, and cool-downs are not essential. 4. Resistance training performed through a full range of motion can improve flexibility, minimizing the need for dedicated stretching unless further gains in range of motion are required for daily activities. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC84… Bottom line: Just lift 💪 #noexcuses

@DrPlantel Here are 4 more: 4. Fluoridated water is a triumph of public health, not a conspiracy. 5. Raw milk is a game of Russian roulette. 6. GMO foods are totally safe. 7. Don't sauna, workout & cold plunge while wearing skinny jeans.

Three things that are somehow controversial that absolutely should not be: 1. You do not need to eat organic produce to be healthier, especially when plenty of people are struggling to eat even a single vegetable in a day. 2.Vaccines are preventive medicine, period. 3.RFK Jr. is an abomination to public health. Dead serious. His rhetoric is dangerous, and people are getting hurt.

New ACSM resistance training guidelines (based on 137 systematic reviews w/ more than 30K participants) • Machines vs free weights → same • Failure vs not → same • Fancy programming → mostly same Consistency & effort still undefeated. #Exercise #workout joachimstraining.com/post/the-2026-…

@aaronterr1 For some reasons, I'm getting hungry for some lemon pound cake!

Afroman jokingly singing about sleeping with the wife of one of the police officers who raided his home — damaging his property and finding no evidence of crime — is not defamation. No reasonable listener would take it seriously. This claim should never have made it to trial.

When I exercise, my brain is not just helping my body move. It is actively strengthening my memory. This research shows that during and after about 20 minutes of cycling, the hippocampus becomes more active. The hippocampus is the brain structure that helps form and organize memories. Scientists recorded brain signals from this region and observed brief bursts of electrical activity called hippocampal ripples. These ripples last only milliseconds but they are critical for memory consolidation. This is the process where the brain stabilizes and stores information we have learned. The figure shows that ripple activity increases during exercise and stays elevated afterward. That means physical activity can stimulate the neural patterns that help the brain replay and reinforce experiences. In simple terms, when I move my body, I am also giving my brain a chance to strengthen the circuits that support learning and memory. Exercise not only trains muscles. It also activates the biological processes that help the brain remember.

@fmfclips Data is pretty clear that short term changes in circulating anabolic hormones do not predict muscle growth/hypertrophy very well. This is also why testosterone boosting supplements are mostly bunk.

Consuming around 75 grams of added sugar is enough to temporarily drop your testosterone by ~25% That’s about as much sugar as you'd get from a donut and a soda Research shows this testosterone drop occurs within just 2 hours, driven in part by insulin spikes interfering with hormonal signaling While the dip is temporary, regularly snacking on sugar-loaded, ultra-processed foods likely means frequent hormonal disruptions, impacting mood, energy, and muscle mass

@theliverdoc I don't think there is a "post steroid era" in bodybuilding. If anything, they are taking more AAS now.

Based on published cohort data, competitive bodybuilders (particularly post-steroid era) have an approximately 34% higher death rate than age-matched general population males, with average age at death clustering around 45–48 years compared to the mid-to-late 70s in the general population.

@MiddleClassCEO @Schwarzenegger TUT is important but data suggests effort, volume & mechanical tension are the holy trinity of hypertrophy & strength.

@Schwarzenegger TUT is the way to grow. Woulda been nice to know 25 years ago

I will ask the team to find some studies for the newsletter. But I can tell you from experience: it doesn’t work. When I was winning powerlifting contests and bodybuilding contests, we had max days, but we earned them with a lot of normal work days in between,