Time stamps: 0:00 I introduce Lyle 1:20 Lyle describes his successes as a powerlifting coach 3:34 Lyle’s thoughts on online coaching 6:52 Lyle on why context matters in coaching 17:53 Lyle talks about his mentor, Dan Duchaine 26:50 Lyle and I criticize Mike Israetel’s advice to ‘train more than the pros’ 32:40 Lyle discusses the risks in examining training variables in isolation 40:08 Lyle on fitness fads and why they emerge 46:22 Lyle on fad-jumping in the contemporary evidence-based sphere 53:50 Lyle on the limitations of exercise science more broadly 57:24 Lyle analyses the costs and benefits of high volume training 1:07:00 Lyle and I briefly discuss video game speedrunning! (Ends at 1:08:54 lol) 1:15:17 Lyle on the natty limit and its implications for training volume 1:22:53 Lyle and I speculate as to why the natty limit doesn’t get talked about more 1:25:40 Lyle on why natty powerlifters often grow better than natty bodybuilders 1:29:01 Lyle on how the pharmaceutical enhancement issue has misled naturals 1:40:16 Lyle on the rate of natty muscle gain, and the caloric surplus required to maximize it 1:49:49 I challenge Lyle’s argument to do with the natty limit. He responds. 2:06:27 Lyle’s closing thoughts on training volume and the natty limit 2:10:35 Lyle on survivorship bias in the lifting world 2:12:55 Lyle on how juice has skewed our perceptions of what’s impressive naturally
Solomon you got yourself a new sub! Love Lyle's work and I can't wait to hear him talk about the natty limit. I know Lyle isn't on RU-vid much but I wonder what he thinks about the natty community online. It has been a bright spot for me, some great information from these guys.
An observation on limits and asymptotes: The function ln(x) is unbounded and will go to infinity with x going to infinity. At the same time, it slows down so much that it can be treated as having a limit for most realistic applications. Let us imagine that 100m dash time can be approximated by t = 15 - C ln(F), where C is constant and F is a measure of training history adjusted for efficiency. It would take exponential gains in training efficiency to reduce this time meaningfully, even though theoretically it can go even negative(which would mean the approximation fails).
Watched without blinking how interesting it is to listen to lyle. Great topic 🔝 The beginning of the podcast impressed me when I saw that the host is a big fan of Lyle 🔝🔝 Good luck in your further work 💪
Lyle is such a fascinating character! You earned a new sub, buddy And it seems like we're a lot into speedrunning or gaming in general here lol (RIP to my WoW addiction)
IS the ifbb which Lyle means, where everybody Looks terrible the 1990 one? If this is the Case i dont See that they Look terrible they looked bigger than normal nattys
