Measuring Body Composition Beyond the Scale
Your bathroom scale measures gravitational force on your total mass. It cannot distinguish between the muscle you built and the water you retained. Better tools exist — each with its own tradeoffs.
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Jake Torres, PhD
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Exercise physiology PhD from the University of Tampa. Published researcher on skeletal muscle hypertrophy and periodization.
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Posts by Jake
Concurrent Training: Can You Run and Lift?
The interference effect is real but overstated. Managing the interaction between endurance and resistance work is a programming problem, not a biological impossibility.
The Science of Hypertrophy: Volume vs Intensity
Decades of resistance training research have pitted volume against intensity as the primary driver of muscle growth. The answer, predictably, is more nuanced than either camp admits.