{"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 376 - Weight Loss Resistance","slug":"ep-376-weight-loss-resistance","published_at":"2026-05-20T10:27:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/iron-culture-presented-by-mass-951717/ep-376-weight-loss-resistance","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/iron-culture-presented-by-mass-951717","url":"https://ironculture.libsyn.com/ep-376-weight-loss-resistance","audio_url":"https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/ironculture/IC376_final_audio.mp3?dest-id=1065920","summary":"Join us for a rare Iron Culture episode with co-hosts who are not only on the same continent, but actually in the same ROOM. Helms and Trexler are in Australia for the Sports Nutrition Association Annual Conference, so they got together to record an episode about Trex's presentation topic: resistance to weight loss. Specifically, why being a true \"outlier\" who is resistant to weight loss efforts is quite rare, particularly when looking at the energy expenditure side of the equation. If you're in the market for some new (ultra-high-quality) gym gear or apparel, be sure to use code \"MRR10\" for a 10% discount over at elitefts.com Iron Culture is proudly presented by the MASS Research Review. Mostly because Helms and Trex are co-owners. massresearchreview.com Chapters 00:00 Introduction 07:09 Tracking errors and energy absorption 22:21 Myths and realities related to medical conditions 50:48 Metabolic adaptation & exercise energy compensation 56:36 Weight loss friction as a spectrum","meta_description":"Join us for a rare Iron Culture episode with co-hosts who are not only on the same continent, but actually in the same ROOM. Helms and Trexler are in Aust…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":4011,"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-376-weight-loss-resistance/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-376-weight-loss-resistance.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}