{"podcast":{"title":"Iron Culture presented by MASS","slug":"iron-culture-presented-by-mass-951717","podcast_index_feed_id":951717,"rss_url":"https://ironculture.libsyn.com/rss","website_url":"http://ironculture.libsyn.com/website","image_url":"https://static.libsyn.com/p/assets/1/f/9/3/1f9308c517c6b8e4e55e3c100dce7605/Untitled_design-20.png","author":"The MASS Crew","episode_count":382,"summary":"Iron Culture was started by Eric Helms and Omar Isuf as a means of exploring the world of physical culture and attempting to distill a unified philosophy of lifting and to help listeners find greater meaning from the iron. It's now hosted by Eric Helms and Eric Trexler, who repeatedly beg Omar to return as a guest. Iron Culture focuses on dispensing practical, useful information to the listener, bouncing from history, to philosophy, to contemporary lifting culture issues, to science. The format includes casual conversations between the two hosts on a variety of topics, discussions with a panel of experts and interviews with authoritative figures in the lifting community. Iron Culture is proudly presented by the MASS Research Review.","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/iron-culture-presented-by-mass-951717"},"episode":{"title":"Ep 365 - The Science Behind Toxic Online Fitness Culture","slug":"ep-365-the-science-behind-toxic-online-fitness-culture","published_at":"2026-02-12T15:46:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/iron-culture-presented-by-mass-951717/ep-365-the-science-behind-toxic-online-fitness-culture","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/iron-culture-presented-by-mass-951717","url":"https://ironculture.libsyn.com/ep-366-the-science-behind-toxic-online-fitness-culture","audio_url":"https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/ironculture/ep_366_final_audio.mp3?dest-id=1065920","summary":"Have you noticed that real life fitness culture is awesome, but online fitness culture sucks? Yeah, us too. In this episode, the Erics discuss why toxic online fitness culture is the way it is, leaning on actual scientific research on which personality types are dictating discourse and driving engagement. The conversation ends with practical tips for strategically cultivating a better experience on social media platforms. By the way - are you in the market for some fitness gear or apparel? If so, head over to elitefts.com to support our friends and use code \"MRR10\" for a 10% discount. Chapters 00:00 Intro 6:58 IRL fitness versus online fitness 17:33 Personality traits and states; types of narcissism 21:51 Traits of influencers 32:00 Traits of frequent posters/users 35:44 How being on social media (transiently) changes personality states 44:45 Skepticism versus cynicism 54:51 Practical tips for strategically cultivating a better experience","meta_description":"Have you noticed that real life fitness culture is awesome, but online fitness culture sucks? Yeah, us too. In this episode, the Erics discuss why toxic o…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":4054,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/iron-culture-presented-by-mass-951717/episodes/ep-365-the-science-behind-toxic-online-fitness-culture/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/iron-culture-presented-by-mass-951717/ep-365-the-science-behind-toxic-online-fitness-culture.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}