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In each episode, the Stronger By Science team delves into exercise and nutrition research, health and fitness trends, and listener questions. Through deep dives, banter, and anecdotes, you'll learn how to interpret and apply the latest science, how to explain fitness trends to your friends, and what actually matters when it comes to living a strong, healthy life.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Research, coaching judgment, and good-humored disagreement meet in practical guidance about lifting, recovery, sleep, and the limits of optimization.
The Stronger By Science Podcast turns exercise research into an ongoing argument among Greg Knuckles, Pak, and Milo Wolff. Their roundtable moves between structured debates and detailed explainers, with training practice tested against study design, dose-response reasoning, and…
A sumo deadlift debate ends in a shrug, if you like gym arguments that know when to stop.
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Pac and Milo treat warm-ups as a training choice with evidence behind it, while keeping one modest caveat in view about the limited research base.
Pac and Milo frame this warm-up follow-up around a practical question: what pre-lift setup is most likely to support better performance in later training sets?
Sleep regularity gets the stronger, more practical case here.
The episode keeps its focus on what sleep research can actually support, and that restraint works in its favor. It moves through health, athletic performance, and body composition, then settles on how duration, quality, and consistency connect to those outcomes.
A plainspoken case for powerbuilding as a practical, motivating way to keep lifting concrete.
Two Stronger by Science hosts make a clear case for powerbuilding, presenting it as a practical way to keep training grounded. The draw is familiar gym logic: add weight to the bar, see progress stack up, and use strength standards and personal records to make lifting easier to…
A gym-debate episode that swaps the usual formula for a looser, more pointed format.
Stronger by Science takes a detour from its usual setup here, turning the conversation into a series of mini debates on gym topics and social-media flashpoints. The twist is simple enough: the speakers do not know which side they will take until the topic appears.
A grounded training debate that eventually lands on what practical lifters can use.
Stronger by Science's Battle Royale episode returns to a familiar dispute: whether training optimality really exists, and what lifters do with that idea once the debate leaves theory. The opening housekeeping takes a while to clear, but it matches the show's usual rhythm.
A practical sleep follow-up that favors basics over hacks.
This follow-up keeps its feet on the ground, focusing on sleep, exercise performance, and lifting without reaching for a magic fix. Smaller tactics are treated as secondary dials: useful once the basics are in place, but never a stand-in for simply getting more sleep.
Greg Knuckles shows why BMR estimates can be useful and still miss in ways the usual inputs cannot explain.
Greg Knuckles uses the episode to work through the gap between the neat BMR number people want and the messier physiology underneath it. The main point lands clearly: prediction equations can miss because the organs that drive metabolic rate vary in ways height, weight, age,…
A skeptical take on muscle-growth folklore, with practical coaching judgment threaded through the uncertainty.
The episode takes a skeptical pass at muscle growth claims that can sound convincing until the evidence gets harder to pin down. It does best when it keeps pulling the discussion back to everyday coaching judgment: whether performance is actually slipping, whether recovery has…
Yoga, grief, breath, and brave self-compassion.
Western bowhunting lessons from the field.
The final Stronger By Science Q&A opens with Greg Knuckles, Pac, and Milo explaining that the show is going on indefinite hiatus and that monthly audio Q&As will move to the newsletter at strongerbyscience.com/newsletter.
Comprehensive deep dive into time-efficient training for hypertrophy.
The hosts of Stronger by Science dive into the science of sleep, analyzing meta-analyses on how sleep duration and regularity impact health and mortality.
Pac and Milo come back for part two of their warm-up series.
Greg, Pac, and Milo return to sleep.
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The Stronger by Science crew brings back Battle Royale.
The Stronger by Science crew tries out a new debate-night format.
The episode opens with Greg Koppels, Dr.
Pak and Milo open with their usual banter, a birthday joke, and a teaser about research they are keeping under wraps for now.
Greg Knuckles hosts solo to discuss basal metabolic rate (BMR), explaining that organ mass is the key determinant, not just body composition.