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Podcast: Iron Culture presented by MASS
Episode: How Much Training Do Powerlifters Actually Need To Get Stronger (Feat Dr. Pak)
Description: We are delighted to have Dr Patroklos Androulakis-Korakakis on Iron Culture! "Dr. Pak" is a researcher and lecturer at Solent University, coach at stronger by science, and finally, a lifting enthusiast himself. He did his PhD on powerlifting. Specifically, he conducted research to answer the question: "how much training do powerlifters need to do, to make meaningful increases in strength?" This question led him to conduct interviews and surveys with the best powerlifters and powerlifting coaches in the world to first understand what they consider "meaningful" strength gains to be, and then he conducted some of the very few...