Iron Culture Podcast's video: Ep 250-WNBF Worlds Pathological Bodybuilding Muscle Loss

The good Doctors Eric are still figuring out how to start episodes without Omar, and let’s just say it’s off to a rough start. But to their credit, they went on to deliver a monster episode even if Omar wasn’t there to officially dub it so. In this conversation Dr. Helms recaps the amazing battles and historic performances that took place at WNBF Worlds on Nov 18-19th, where he participated as both a coach and athlete. Then, Dr. Trexler and he cover a couple relevant and interesting research papers, the first, covered by Dr. Helms explores the “whys” underlying the motivations competitive bodybuilders have to live the life they lead. The second, covered by Dr. Trexler, explores the often-repeated claim that when you diet, you’ll lose ~25% of your weight as lean mass. Is this true? And if it is, for whom and in what circumstances? 00:00 Eric… the WNBF World’s format and Helms’ experience 13:26 Dirk Emmerich background and recap 20:28 One of the quirks of natural bodybuilding 25:17 Recap continued 33:07 The top 5 in the overall 35:13 The female competitors 43:03 Trexler’s return to the stage? Natty News Daily @natty_news_daily https://www.instagram.com/natty_news_daily/ 46:29 What’s next for Helms and some MASS Research Review https://massresearchreview.com/ MASS Office Hours Episode 11 (The Science of Muscle Growth w/ Dr. Brad Schoenfeld) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQda3aV0f7Q Raskol Apparel https://raskolapparel.com/ 59:30 Getting into some bodybuilding science 59:52 (When the Eric’s actually start) Getting into some Science Willmott 2023 The perfect storm: a meta-ethnography of the motivations, behaviours, and experiences of competitive bodybuilders https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1750984X.2023.2263851?src= 1:07:09 The framework of those who compete 1:23:40 The importance of this research and its limitations 1:32:45 A brief look at muscle loss during weight loss Heymsfield 2024 Proportion of caloric restriction-induced weight loss as skeletal muscle https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37807154/ Barakat 2020 Body Recomposition: Can Trained Individuals Build Muscle and Lose Fat at the Same Time? https://journals.lww.com/nsca-scj/fulltext/2020/10000/body_recomposition__can_trained_individuals_build.3.aspx 1:49:33 Applying this research and the importance of resistance training 1:57:30 Closing out with one final MASS advertisement