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I am collaborating on understanding common beliefs about fitness. If you are a fitness enthusiast, please take a few moments to complete the survey below. Also, would greatly appreciate if you can share the link on your social media page 💪 forms.office.com/e/Sm5yLfphEU

Our new study found training with a single set per exercise elicited appreciable gains in trained lifters, even when training was carried out several reps short of failure. Reinforces that time shouldn't be a barrier to consistent resistance training!💪pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40249908/

Cold water immersion after resistance training impairs muscle development. New study suggests this may be due to a reduction in blood flow to the musculature thus blunting amino acid incorporation into muscle... pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40249909/

Honored to have been invited by the Harvard University Aging Initiative to speak this past weekend on a panel with @jeffnippard about resistance training strategies to enhance quality of life across the lifespan. RT is the closest thing we have to a fountain of youth! #gottalift

The dynamic duo of Brad Schoenfeld, PhD and Jeff Nippard broke down the latest on exercise science in the context of muscle longevity. Super fun conversation and an honor to hear from two greats of the science communication/influencing world.

A basic, minimal dose resistance training program is generally all that's needed to achieve sufficient gains for the gen pop. Alternatively, if you're goal is to optimize muscular adaptations, the nuances matter become increasingly important...💪

Internet claims vs reality. Supplements provide a very small potential benefit to muscle-building. If you’re a bodybuilder or someone looking to optimize muscular potential, then even small benefits may be practically meaningful. For the rest of the population, not so much...

Our minimum-dose study featured in the The Washington Post. "You need to put in some effort,” Schoenfeld said. But you don’t need to lift until your muscles are completely exhausted to show significant gains in strength and size. washingtonpost.com/wellness/2025/…

Take-home from my interview with the The New York Times: “You don’t need to necessarily be pushing to failure, but a high level of effort is required over time,” said Brad Schoenfeld, a professor in the exercise science program at Lehman College in New York nytimes.com/2025/05/03/wel…

From my interview with Prevention: “In our study, the workouts were sufficiently hard to challenge the participants’ muscles beyond their present capacity,” says Brad Schoenfeld, Ph.D., study co-author. “This is key to making continued muscular gains.” prevention.com/fitness/a64671…

Our just-pubbed paper led by Gustavo Ferreira Pedrosa showed angle-specific effects of ROM on force production; reinforces the principle of specificity for ROM training 💪 tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Nick Krontiris Thanks for sharing! The article was written by a stellar team, including Brad Schoenfeld, PhD

My interview with WebMD. Title is a bit misleading. Muscle development is similar between light vs heavy loads. There's some specificity to strength favoring heavy loads, although the difference narrows when testing on a neutral device-see: PMID: 28834797 webmd.com/fitness-exerci…

Huge congrats to our master’s student, Tom Hermann, for passing (crushing) his thesis defense. A true pleasure to mentor such a dedicated, passionate scholar. Look forward to pre-printing the results of this one soon; some unexpected findings of interest 💪🏽

Resistance training has marginal effects on fat loss. However, it plays a primary role in preservation of lean tissue (or even body recomposition) during energy restriction. That's a really important benefit... pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40405489/

Post-exercise cold water immersion has been shown to impair muscle development. New study suggests it may not do much for performance recovery either... onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

Congrats to my master’s student, Chris Parnell, for defending his thesis proposal. Data collection to start in the Fall. Excited to see how this plays out. 💪🏽

The title says it all. Periodizing training around the menstrual cycle is not supported by current research. Adjustments can be made to program variables based on symptoms that may occur throughout the cycle if/when warranted. journals.lww.com/nsca-scj/pages…

Our new study now in preprint suggests that a specific warm up may not be necessary when training with medium-high rep ranges. Conceivably, the initial reps serve as a "warm up". Eschewing the specific warm up could be a time-saving strategy for RT 💪 sportrxiv.org/index.php/serv…

"...while aerobic activities remain essential, the next generation of physical activity guidelines should place greater emphasis on the particular importance of RT." Amen! link.springer.com/article/10.100…