Austin Baraki is a co-owner of Barbell Medicine, a hospital-based physician at a teaching institute, and a strength coach/lifter (a darn strong lifter too!) As a physician, Austin Baraki is able to mix the deeply impressive diagnostic mind that he has gained from the medical world with his passion and success in the strength world …
Do hypertrophic adaptations lead to an increase in strength? The general consensus among most athletes and coaches for the last few decades has been that increases in hypertrophy, defined as ‘an increase in muscle size accompanied by an increase in myofibrillar protein (Taber)’, has a causal relationship with increases in strength, defined as ‘the ability …
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During the last 25 months of podcasting I have had the privilege of speaking with an enormous number of the most interesting and successful coaches and athletes in the Weightlifting World. I have learned and relearned many new approaches to training, heard some of the most exceptional stories of success through diversity, and explored the …