Built With Science

In today's episode, Built With Science researchers Max Coleman and Daniel Plotkin discuss the role of protein in the body, both for muscle growth and basic function. They also discuss some important strategies to maximize the muscle gains you get from your protein intake. Take our quiz to find the best fitness program for you and your body: https://quiz.builtwithscience.com/

In today's episode, Built With Science researchers Max Coleman and Daniel Plotkin discuss the importance of sleep for muscle growth and fat loss, as well as ways to improve your sleep quality & hygiene. Take our quiz to find the best fitness program for you and your body: https://quiz.builtwithscience.com/

In today's episode, Built With Science researchers Max Coleman and Daniel Plotkin discuss the principles of what makes an exercise good for muscle growth. Take our quiz to find the best fitness program for you and your body: https://quiz.builtwithscience.com/

In today's episode, Built With Science researchers Max Coleman and Daniel Plotkin discuss how to spot bad versus good evidence-based information when it comes to fitness and nutrition. This skill can also be applied to other areas as well! Take our quiz to find the best fitness program for you and your body: https://quiz.builtwithscience.com/

In today's episode, Built With Science researchers Max Coleman and Daniel Plotkin discuss if you should train to failure or not in order to maximize your muscle gains. Take our quiz to find the best fitness program for you and your body: https://quiz.builtwithscience.com/

In today's episode, Built With Science researchers Max Coleman and Daniel Plotkin discuss the concept of viewing fitness as a dial versus a switch. In other words, they discuss why you do not need to strive for perfection in every element of your fitness & nutrition routine in order to see results.

In today's episode, Built With Science researchers Max Coleman and Daniel Plotkin discuss how long you should rest in between sets if you want to maximize your gains.

In today's episode, Built With Science researchers Max Coleman and Daniel Plotkin discuss the different adaptations and training regimen to follow when your goal is strength (getting strong) vs. hypertrophy (getting big). Take our quiz to find the best fitness program for you and your body: https://quiz.builtwithscience.com/

In today's episode, Built With Science researchers Max Coleman and Daniel Plotkin discuss the muscles you should focus on if you want to look as jacked as possible. They'll also discuss how you can set up a specialization phase to target those muscles. Take our quiz to find the best fitness program for you and your body: https://quiz.builtwithscience.com/

In today's episode, Built With Science researchers Max Coleman and Daniel Plotkin discuss some of the diets that you should avoid, especially if your goal is to build muscle. They'll also discuss some diets that you could incorporate, but should take into consideration depending on your goals. Take our quiz to find the best fitness program for you and your body: https://quiz.builtwithscien...

In today's episode, Built With Science researchers Max Coleman and Daniel Plotkin discuss one of their most favorite exercises for fat loss and overall health: walking.

In today's episode, Built With Science researchers Max Coleman and Daniel Plotkin discuss everything you need to know about intermittent fasting, also known as time restricted feeding in the literature. They'll discuss different ways to implement it, and some situations it may be better suited for to optimize body composition changes.

In today's episode, Built With Science researchers Max Coleman and Daniel Plotkin discuss the least effort you can put into your training and nutrition but still make noticeable gains. Take our quiz to find the best fitness program for you and your body: https://quiz.builtwithscience.com/

In today's episode, Built With Science researchers Max Coleman and Daniel Plotkin discuss the research around heavy versus light load training for muscle growth. Do you really need to "lift big to get big"? Take our quiz to find the best fitness program for you and your body: https://quiz.builtwithscience.com/

In today's episode, Built With Science researchers Max Coleman and Daniel Plotkin discuss their opinions on the "natty versus not" movement from the perspective of the origin of the movement and how you should interpret discussions on whether an individual is natural or not. Take our quiz to find the best fitness program for you and your body: https://quiz.builtwithscience.com/

Various components of form and technique can alter an exercise, such as range of motion, tempo & repetition speed, and posture and positioning (biomechanics). In today's episode, Built With Science researchers Max Coleman and Daniel Plotkin discuss the optimal technique that will result in the most muscle growth possible. Take our quiz to find the best fitness program for you and your body...

In today's episode, Built With Science researchers Max Coleman and Daniel Plotkin discuss various topics they've changed their minds about over the years as their knowledge and experience have expanded. They also discuss why changing your mind and opinion isn't necessarily bad! Take our quiz to find the best fitness program for you and your body: https://quiz.builtwithscience.com/

In today's episode, Built With Science researchers Max Coleman and Daniel Plotkin discuss partial range of motion training, specifically training the muscle at a long muscle length and how that can potentially lead to more muscle growth than full range of motion. Take our quiz to find the best fitness program for you and your body: https://quiz.builtwithscience.com/

In today's episode, Built With Science researchers Max Coleman and Daniel Plotkin discuss things that will slow down the gains you could be making in the gym or those things that'll result in no progress at all or even reduce muscle mass. Take our quiz to find the best fitness program for you and your body: https://quiz.builtwithscience.com/

With the start of 2024, you might have set some new goals to lose fat or build muscle, but where do you start? In today's episode, Built With Science researchers Max Coleman and Daniel Plotkin discuss how to set your diet up based on your goals. They'll discuss cutting, bulking, and even maingaining, what they are, and how to set up your diet for each phase.

What's even more important than what you do in the gym is what you do afterwards. Muscles grow through rest, and proper recovery is an extremely important part of the muscle building process. In today's episode, Built With Science researchers Max Coleman and Daniel Plotkin dive into the science behind proper recovery. They'll cover what recovery methods ACTUALLY work, as well as overra...

There's a lot of information online about the best way to build muscle and lose fat. But what methods are actually effective, based on science? Today our researchers Daniel Plotkin and Max Coleman share the 10 most overrated and underrated ways to build muscle. Tune in and enjoy!

What is the best workout split to build muscle? Push-pull legs? Upper/lower? Full body workout split?  What about the "bro-split" where you train one muscle group each workout? How effective is that? Today, researchers Max Coleman and Daniel Plotkin dive into the science to find out what the best workout split is for natural lifters. The answers may surprise you. Enjoy!

Want to learn some true science-based strategies to make more gains in less time? Researchers Daniel Plotkin and Max Coleman share a few ways to do just that. Within the podcast you'll learn how to effectively cut down your workout time in half (or less) without compromising your muscle growth.

In this episode, researchers Daniel Plotkin and Max Coleman explore the current science behind what builds more muscle - free weights or machines. Free weights, such as barbells and dumbbells, have long been viewed as superior for muscle growth. But is that really the case? Not quite. It seems like machines can be just as effective. But it's important you know the major differences between usi...