Research Roundup: Collagen Protein vs. Whey, Pre-Performance Rituals, Rhodiola, and More

Muscle for Life with Mike Matthews

Does bench press grip width matter? How does collagen protein compare with whey even when it’s spiked with leucine? Are keto diets better for weight loss? Can Rhodiola rosea boost performance? Do pre-performance routines affect performance? This is what the latest research says about these questions.

This podcast is part of a new series I’m going to call Research Roundups. What is it going to be? Well, there is a ton of scientific research that gets published every year, and even if you narrow your focus to fitness research, it would still take several lifetimes to unravel the hairball of studies on nutrition, training, supplementation, and related fields.

That's why my team and I put a lot of time into reviewing, dissecting, and describing scientific studies in articles, podcasts, and books. And while the principles of proper eating and exercising are relatively simple and fairly immutable at this point, new research can help us understand why the fundamentals work. They can help us understand how to better implement them, and how to get better results with them.

And occasionally every so often there are new and better methods of eating, exercising, supplementing, and living to achieve our health and fitness goals faster. And so in this series of episodes, you’re going to learn about new research on various things related to building muscle, losing fat, getting healthy, improving wellbeing, and so on.

In today's episode, I'm going to be talking about the bench press grip, whether or not keto is better than normal dieting for weight loss, how pre-performance rituals can enhance your physical performance, and more. So listen if you want to learn the answers to those questions and more.

Oh and if you like this type of episode, let me know. Send me an email ([e-mail]) or direct message me on Instagram (@muscleforlifefitness). And if you don’t like it, let me know that too or how you think it could be better.

Timestamps

0:00 - Want a free meal planning tool that figures out your calories, macros, and micros, and allows you to create custom meal plans for cutting, lean gaining, and maintaining in under 5 minutes? Go to https://buylegion.com/mealplan and download the tool for free!

3:39 - How does bench press grip affect the muscles being trained?

6:58 - What influence does the keto diet have on body composition?

9:47 - How does collagen protein compare to whey? Why don’t you sell a collagen protein?

13:10 - What are the effects of Rhodiola rosea?

16:00 - What is the effectiveness of pre-performance routines?

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