Preserving your muscle mass during a weight loss diet is critical for preventing sarcopenia and maintaining metabolic health. It also means you're going to look better both clothed and naked, which is kind of sweet.

So, what's the best strategy to lose mainly fat?

In today's episode, we're diving headfirst into a brand-new study showing what you can do to massively increase the amount of fat you lose when dieting, while minimizing muscle loss.

The study had participants do either strength training, cardio, or nothing at all – and the differences were remarkable!

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Your body uses carbohydrates to power your muscles, organs, and brain. But how important is it to eat carbs before your strength workouts?

That's the topic today, and we're discussing a new meta-analysis that looked at the effects of acute carbohydrate feeding on resistance exercise performance. Or, in other words, how much (or little) carbs up to an hour before your workouts can benefit you in the gym!

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This podcast is brought to you by Styrkelabbet AB, Sweden.

To support us, download the world's best gym workout tracker app StrengthLog here. It's completely ad-free and the most generous fitness app on the market, giving you access to unlimited workout logging, lots of workouts and training programs, and much, much more even if you stay a free user for life.

If you want a t-shirt with "Train hard, eat well, die anyway", check out our shop here.

The range of motion you use when lifting can have a profound effect on your strength and muscle-building results.

In today's episode, we break down a brand-new meta-analysis that compares the effects of strength training at short versus long muscle lengths.

By now, we're really starting to get a clearer picture of what range of motion you should aim for most of the time – and with the help of this study, we give you our recommendations regarding full range of motion, when you might benefit from doing partial repetitions, and at what muscle length those partials should be performed.

Nerdy but important stuff.

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