Bench Angles, Appetitive Traits, and Mesocycle Progression

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Intro/Announcements: new Facebook group, subreddit, and sponsor (0:00:36). 

Good news: animal edition (0:07:00). 

Feats of Strength (0:16:05). 

Research Roundup (0:18:49). 

Acute effects of cannabis consumption on exercise performance: a systematic and umbrella review (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32734752/) (0:19:10). 

Caffeine increases strength and power performance in resistance‐trained females during early follicular phase (https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/sms.13776) (0:26:15). 

Appetitive traits as targets for weight loss: The role of food cue responsiveness and satiety responsiveness (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0031938420303322) (0:33:37). 

Effects of Horizontal and Incline Bench Press on Neuromuscular Adaptations in Untrained Young Men (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7449336/) (0:43:28). 

Creatine Supplementation Does Not Influence the Ratio Between Intracellular Water and Skeletal Muscle Mass in Resistance-Trained Men (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32916658/) (0:50:15). 

µ-Opioid receptor–induced synaptic plasticity in dopamine neurons mediates the rewarding properties of anabolic androgenic steroids (https://stke.sciencemag.org/content/13/647/eaba1169) (1:00:11). 

Metabolic adaptation is an illusion, only present when participants are in negative energy balance (https://academic.oup.com/ajcn/advance-article/doi/10.1093/ajcn/nqaa220/5897225) (1:10:30). 

Are questionable research practices facilitating new discoveries in sport and exercise medicine? The proportion of supported hypotheses is implausibly high (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32699001/) (1:18:01).

Call to increase statistical collaboration in sports science, sport and exercise medicine and sports physiotherapy (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32816788/) (1:25:37). 

Coach’s Corner: how to progress load throughout a mesocycle (1:28:33). 

Q&A: what is Ant-Man’s Wilks score? (1:45:31). 

To play us out: football season barbecue tips (1:54:38). 

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