Welcome to The Strength Log, a podcast about strength training, nutrition, science, health and fitness.
Your hosts, Daniel Richter and Philip Wildenstam, are two Swedish gym rats and science nerds with decades of experience in helping people reach their fitness goals.
In The Strength Log, we translate science into understandable insights for you who are looking to gain a better understanding of how to reach your fitness goals.
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Recent Episodes of The Strength Log Podcast
[Podcast] How Long Can You Be in a Caloric Deficit? Mailbag!
In the last episode, we established that you can build more muscle mass while losing fat—even if you’re not a beginner in the gym. Let’s follow that up with a bunch of great questions on the same topic, sent in by our fantastic listeners! Timestamps: With the player above, you can listen to the episode … Read more
[Podcast] Build Muscle While Losing Fat!
We’ve already done three episodes on fat loss (see episodes 20, 21, and 22). Now it’s time to tackle the holy grail: How to build more muscle mass while still losing fat! Most know that this is quite easy for overweight beginners. But what about the rest of us? Can it even be done without … Read more
[Podcast] How Often Should You Change Exercises?
Do you gain more muscle and strength when you change your exercises regularly, or can you keep doing the same ones all the time? That’s the topic for today, and to kick the discussion off we have a fun new study on this subject! The researchers wanted to see if varying exercises (for the same … Read more
[Podcast] Mailbag: Your Best Questions on Arm Training!
It’s time to wrap up the mini-series on training for bigger arms, with your best questions on how to succeed. Should you, for instance, train your arms daily for better gains? And how do you train if one of your arms is in a cast because it’s broken? You guys had so many good questions … Read more
[Podcast] How to Train for Thicc Triceps
The triceps are one of the biggest muscles in the upper body, and for big-looking arms, they are more important than your biceps—making up around two-thirds of the muscular volume in your upper arms! Training the triceps is not as straightforward as training the biceps, and if you want big, strong triceps, you’ll need to … Read more
[Podcast] How to Build Big Biceps
Here we have it, every man’s (and quite a few women’s) biggest dream: bigger biceps! Is it enough to only do pull-ups and rowing exercises for maximum bicep growth, or should you add direct bicep work too? After a short anatomy lesson, we present you with everything you need to know about building big, juicy … Read more
[Podcast] Is Your Physique Balanced Enough? Listener Questions!
Wow, you guys and gals really sent in a bunch of great listener questions today. Thank you for making this podcast both informative and fun! How about talking about the concept of progressive overload for older lifters? Or about the often-claimed importance of having a balanced physique to avoid injuries? See the timestamps below for … Read more
[Podcast] The Most Overhyped Fitness Supplements
Last episode covered the three best fitness supplements to spend your money on, and three that might be worth it under special circumstances. We flip the coin today, talking about the most overhyped supplements for strength and fitness. Either because they have been shown to not live up to the claims of the supplement companies … Read more
[Podcast] The Best Supplements for Your Fitness Goals
Which supplements are worth your money, and which are not? In this episode, we’ll examine what the science actually says about fitness and strength-related supplements, to give you our list of the best ones. When all is said and done, not many supplements remain that are worthy of your money—the opposite of what supplement companies … Read more
[Podcast] How to Lose Fat – Crash Diets
In the final episode of our trilogy on fat loss, we discuss crash dieting. Crash diets—also known as very-low-calorie diets and semistarvation diets—are very popular, and we’re here to tell you exactly how stupid it is to go on one and expect sustainable results. Especially if you care about your muscle mass, which we do … Read more