Bench Angles, Appetitive Traits, and Mesocycle Progression (Episode 47)

Greg and Eric are back from summer break and better than ever. Season three brings a couple of exciting changes, including a brand new Facebook group and subreddit to allow you to participate in the conversation. Today’s episode begins with a conflicted Good News segment and some recent Feats of Strength. After that, Greg and Eric have a huge Research Roundup segment to catch up on a number of studies that were published over summer break, with topics including cannabis, caffeine, creatine, bench press angles, appetitive traits, steroid addiction, and more. That’s followed by a quick Q&A segment and a conversation about how to progress your training throughout a mesocycle. Finally, Greg and Eric share their top barbecue tips to play them out. If you’d like to receive Research Roundup emails, please sign up for our email list at https://www.strongerbyscience.com/new... To join in on the SBS conversation, check out our new Facebook group and subreddit. Facebook Group:   / strongerbysciencecommunity   Subreddit:   / strongerbyscience   Finally, next time you stock up on supplements from BulkSupplements.com, be sure to use the promo code “SBSPOD” (all caps) to get 5% off your entire order. TIME STAMPS 0:00:36 Intro/Announcements: new Facebook group, subreddit, and sponsor 0:07:00 Good news: animal edition 0:16:05 Feats of Strength 0:18:49 Research Roundup 0:19:10 Acute effects of cannabis consumption on exercise performance: a systematic and umbrella review (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32734...) 0:26:15 Caffeine increases strength and power performance in resistance‐trained females during early follicular phase (https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/1...) 0:33:37 Appetitive traits as targets for weight loss: The role of food cue responsiveness and satiety responsiveness (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science...) 0:43:28 Effects of Horizontal and Incline Bench Press on Neuromuscular Adaptations in Untrained Young Men (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...) 0:50:15 Creatine Supplementation Does Not Influence the Ratio Between Intracellular Water and Skeletal Muscle Mass in Resistance-Trained Men (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32916...) 1:00:11 µ-Opioid receptor–induced synaptic plasticity in dopamine neurons mediates the rewarding properties of anabolic androgenic steroids (https://stke.sciencemag.org/content/1...) 1:10:30 Metabolic adaptation is an illusion, only present when participants are in negative energy balance (https://academic.oup.com/ajcn/advance...) 1:18:01 Are questionable research practices facilitating new discoveries in sport and exercise medicine? The proportion of supported hypotheses is implausibly high (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32699...) 1:25:37 Call to increase statistical collaboration in sports science, sport and exercise medicine and sports physiotherapy (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32816...) 1:28:33 Coach’s Corner: how to progress load throughout a mesocycle 1:45:31 Q&A: what is Ant-Man’s Wilks score? 1:54:38 To play us out: football season barbecue tips