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You’re interested in learning and applying the latest training and nutrition research. MASS makes that easy.
You know that keeping up with the latest science is crucial to being the best athlete or coach you can be. Even if you just lift for fun, you want to be sure you’re getting the most out of your time in the gym.
Keeping up with the 1,000+ new studies published per month is crucial, but quite challenging.
You want the benefits of knowing the latest science-backed training and nutrition advice, but don’t have the time, energy, and money to sift through the journals, pick out which studies are applicable, analyze their design for trustworthiness, critically read them, and figure out how they apply to you training or your client’s training.
MASS does the hard work for you.
We break down the latest research in plain English, so you can apply it to your training and nutrition ASAP.
You can be an expert in strength and physique sport without wasting any more time, energy, or money sifting through studies.
We’ve got the shortcut:
Monthly Applications in Strength Sport (MASS), a research review by Dr. Eric Trexler, Dr. Eric Helms, Dr. Mike Zourdos, and Lauren Colenso-Semple.
MASS does all the legwork for you and distills the studies that are the most useful and relevant for you each month, making it easy and enjoyable to stay on top of the research that matters to you.
MASS is a monthly research digest that helps people like you bring your A-Game.
Get reliable interpretations and easily digest the most important research.
People who depend on headlines, shallow articles, and bro advice will be left in the dust. MASS is meticulously researched and curated by four experts. The result is a review full of the highest-quality, most relevant content, with none of the false hype or ill-advised fads.
Be confident that you’re up to speed.
Whether you’re planning your own training and nutrition, coaching a client, conducting an interview, or creating online content, you can be confident that you’re up to date with the information at the cutting edge of our community.
Unlock the best results and most relevant research for you and your clients.
An athlete or coach who knows and truly understands the research has a huge advantage over their competitors. MASS focuses solely on strength and physique athletes, coaches, and enthusiasts. This means that every month, we’ll review only the research that’s the most relevant for you and your results.
Provide your audience with evidence-based information and recommendations.
Plenty of MASS subscribers are content creators focusing on disseminating scientific research to their audiences. We make their jobs much easier by highlighting the most important research, putting it in context, and recommending the main applications and takeaways from each topic.
Skim the key points and our main recommendations in minutes, or dive deep into our full analysis.
You’re in control. Each article begins with a bulleted list of key points and ends with a list of applications and takeaways, giving you the need-to-know points in bite-sized chunks. Both aim to tell you exactly what the newest research means for your training or nutrition so you can start applying the latest science right away. Want to know all the nuance of a particular topic? Dive into the full article for our complete analysis.
Understand how recent research fits into the broader literature.
An essential part of interpreting research is figuring out how new findings fit into the understanding of an entire body of scientific literature on the topic. As the scientific community learns new things and discards old practices, we’ll help you stay abreast so you can grow and evolve without chasing your tail with every new fad or staying stuck in your ways and being bound to tradition.
Learn in whatever style suits you.
We have two types of articles (comprehensive and briefs), audio episodes, video lectures, plus tons of infographics in each issue.
Escape the confusing jargon of scientific literature with our concise, easy-to-understand writing.
We’ll tell you what you need to know while cutting out most of the jargon, acronyms, and confusing language so often found in studies. With precise and pithy writing, interpreting research is simple and accessible to all.
Nerd out, if that’s the kind of thing you’re into.
As an added benefit, our interpretation will aid your ability to dissect additional research which you choose to examine on your own. By reading our monthly reviews, your critical thinking and ability to decipher research will be enhanced to further benefit your capability to improve your training.
MASS is trusted by the top names in the industry...
"MASS provides an incredibly valuable shortcut to high-quality literature and its practical application. MASS ensures that every month my knowledge base is completely up to date so that whether I am coaching a client, conducting an interview or creating online content, I'm confident that I'm up to speed with what is at the cutting edge of our community."
Jeff Nippard
WNBF Pro Natural Bodybuilder | IPF Raw Powerlifter
"The level of information is astounding, the topics covered are perfect, the interpretations of the research are applicable, and the writing is the perfect combination of articulate and understandable. ... If you want your training, nutrition and coaching to all be based on the latest reliable science, then now you can do so by have the MASS team do all the work for you!"
Danny Lennon
MSc. Nutrition Science. Founder & Head of Content Production at Sigma Nutrition
"Keeping up with research that is relevant to a professional powerlifting coach is a huge task. And if you're a coach, you likely don't have the time (or let's be honest the skillset) to do all of this yourself. MASS is not just interesting to me as a fan of iron sports training. It helps me to be a better coach than I'd otherwise be."
Mike Tuchscherer
World Champion powerlifter, founder of Reactive Training Systems
"MASS is one of the best resources for fitness enthusiasts as well as professionals for reliable, science-based information in easy-to-understand summaries. MASS does the heavy lifting, making it easy for coaches and athletes to reference the information to influence the greater good of the fitness community."
Katie Anne Rutherford
Natural Figure Pro Elite 72kg Powerlifter
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A subscription to MASS unlocks years of past editions. And, of course, we'll keep you up-to-date with a new issue of MASS each month.
- A new PDF issue of MASS every month. Each issue contains at least 5 articles and 8 “Research Brief” articles, as well as access to 2 video presentations. PDF issues are usually around 120 pages long.
- Access to the entire searchable back catalog of articles and videos. You can download PDF versions, access back issues, find member-exclusive content, and view the mobile-friendly versions of each article on our exclusive member website.
- Monthly audio episodes. If you enjoy podcasts, you’ll love these 20-minute audio episodes. Listen in as we discuss and contextualize each article in these podcast-style audio roundtables.
- App version of the member site and mobile-friendly access to all content. Your MASS membership is now available through an app, so you can easily access articles, videos, and audio episodes from your phone.
- Access to our NSCA and NASM CEUs and ACSM and ACE CECs. If you’re an NSCA or NASM member who needs CEUs or an ACSM or ACE member who needs CECs, MASS offers quizzes (which covers the material in issues of MASS) that you can take to earn CEUs and CECs. Taking the quizzes is completely free for subscribers. We’re also working on getting CEUs with other organizations.
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You may be wondering...
Answers to Frequently Asked Questions about MASS
Yes! All subscribers automatically unlock the full MASS archive.
In addition to getting a new issue of MASS every month for the lifetime of your subscription, you also will instantly be granted access to our entire archive.
Honestly, the value is pretty insane.
Our MASS archive is going to be a treasure trove for you if you’re looking for up-to-date, evidence-based advice or commentary on programming, nutrition, supplements, recovery, sports psychology, biomechanics, muscle physiology, and more.
And with an easily searchable, meticulously categorized member website, finding articles and videos on the topics you’re interested in will be a breeze.
One subscriber named Luis said MASS has become the “library of evidence-based research” for his consulting and coaching business.
MASS is the research review for strength and physique athletes and coaches.
Other research reviews in our area do a great job keeping you up to date with research into general health and fitness, nutrition research, and research relevant to S&C coaches that work with athletes from other sports, but no research reviews focus exclusively and specifically on people who want to gain muscle, get stronger, and improve their body composition.
If you’re a powerlifter, weightlifter, strongman, CrossFitter, bodybuilder, physique competitor, or a coach for a strength or physique sport, you’ll open your issue of MASS every month to see 6 articles, 5+ Research Briefs, and 2 videos that are very relevant to you, helping you get an edge on the competition. If you fall into one of those groups, MASS is perfect for you.
Here are a few other things that make us different:
MASS is a great monthly value. Each monthly issue of MASS is longer than those from most other research reviews (ours are normally 100+ pages). You get more content per dollar you spend.
Every article published in MASS is rigorously peer reviewed. MASS is created by some of the smartest people in the industry. Each article is peer reviewed by all other members, meaning you get more nuanced, well-rounded information. We also include audio conversations discussing the findings of each study we review.
MASS has a sleek, professional design. MASS is beautifully designed and easy to read. Every issue contains around 40 infographics to help you interpret and understand each study quickly and easily.
You have the option to skim or dive deep. We include summaries and key takeaways for each study we review, so you can easily skim everything, then dive deep into the topics that interest you.
We include audio episodes every month. Prefer to listen? We record short audio conversations about each article we review, so you have options for how to get the information.
Every issue of MASS includes unique video content. Every monthly issue of MASS also contains two video presentations that aim to give you a broader, concept review of some of the most important topics in strength, physique, and nutrition research.
We’re never late. We’ve published a new issue every month for several years now. Every single issue has been released right on schedule. On the first of every month, you’ll have MASS in your inbox – guaranteed.
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You only need to enter your payment information once, and then we’ll automatically bill you on the same date you signed up. For example, if you choose the monthly subscription and purchase on April 30, we’ll bill you May 30 for your next month.
- Competitors in any strength or physique sport
- Coaches who work with clients in any strength or physique sport
- Trainers whose clients are primarily interested in gaining muscle, losing fat, or getting stronger
- Nerdy fitness enthusiasts
We’ll send out a brand new issue of MASS on the first of every month via email. We’ll also post the new issue in the membership website you have access to so you can easily download and read from there, too.
Yearly and lifetime subscriptions come with a guarantee that if we ever close up shop and stop making MASS (though there are certainly no plans to do so in the future), you’ll never pay more than what you otherwise would have paid for a monthly subscription.
MASS is made by reviewers you can trust
MASS Research Review content is independent, unbiased, and created by some of the smartest people in the industry.
Eric Helms
- Ph.D. in strength and conditioning from Auckland University of Technology in New Zealand, M.S. in exercise science, a second Master’s in sports nutrition, B.S. in fitness and wellness.
- Regularly publishes peer-reviewed articles in exercise science and nutrition journals on physique and strength sport.
- Coach for drug-free strength and physique competitors at all levels as a part of team 3D Muscle Journey.
- Earned pro status as a natural bodybuilder with the PNBA in 2011 and competes in unequipped powerlifting, weightlifting, and strongman.
Mike Zourdos
- Ph.D. in exercise physiology, M.S. in applied health physiology, and B.S. in exercise science.
- 12 years as an active scientific researcher focusing specifically on strength athletes
- Head powerlifting coach of FSU’s 2011 and 2012 state championship team.
- Competes as a powerlifter in the USAPL and coaches athletes through his company Training Revolution, LLC.
Lauren Colenso-Semple
- Ph.D. candidate in Integrative Physiology at McMaster University.
- M.S. in Exercise Science (University of South Florida), B.A. in Psychology, Nutrition (State University of New York at Buffalo).
- Regularly publishes peer-reviewed articles in exercise science journals with a focus on female physiology and endocrinology, sex-based differences, and mechanisms of muscle growth.
- Expert fitness professional with years of practical experience and certifications in strength & conditioning, sports nutrition, group fitness, and personal training.
Eric Trexler
- PhD in Human Movement Science from UNC Chapel Hill, and has published dozens of peer-reviewed research papers on various exercise and nutrition strategies for getting bigger, stronger, and leaner.
- Pro natural bodybuilder and a sports nutrition researcher.
- Several years of University-level teaching experience, and has been involved in coaching since 2009.
- Director of Education for Stronger By Science and host of the Stronger By Science Podcast.
Our review process for each issue of MASS
Every month, we sift through 100+ journals and 1000+ studies to handpick the cutting-edge research that’s most relevant to you, and will help you build muscle, gain strength, and get leaner.
All four of us are athletes and coaches as well, so we know how to separate the truly valuable and applicable studies from the novelties that are never going to make it out of the lab and into the gym.
Each article is peer reviewed by all other members, meaning you get more nuanced, well-rounded information.
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