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Ep. 109 - Empiricism vs Rationalism: What Do We Really Know When It Comes To Fitness?

Iron Culture presented by MASS

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The Importance of Randomization in Hypertrophy

If A necessarily entails B or two things are correlated with an R of like .95, you can have a lot more faith in that than if D, E and F also influence B. So yeah, the fewer things that also influence outcome you're interested in and how directly and necessarily causal those two things are, are going to have a really, really large impact. But on a rationalist level, we know that cross bridges between actin and myosin are what calls muscle contraction. And so getting bigger is probably going to help it contract harder. That's a pretty strong rationalist argument.

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