Reviews
“Practical, informed, non-sensational, evidence-based content for the beginner or advanced lifter alike.
My gripe,however, is with the Eric guy, you know the white bodybuilder one, the one with the PHD and obscure references, the man who’s bone dry sarcasm makes my skin ashy and the corner of my...”Read full review »
Lock That Eric Guy Up 6969 via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
03/28/24
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“I’ve long felt like Omar’s contributions to the podcast have been minimal at best. With Trexler on board, I think it’s become far more obvious that Omar does little to serve the podcast besides periodic interruptions and distractions. He struggles to keep up with most conversations, and his...”Read full review »
flatsodapop via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
03/04/24
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“The best podcast that ever podcasted. There are not enough stars in this rating system for this show. Sometime they will make an episode on something that I wasn’t even particularly interested in, but I listen to it anyway and not only enjoy do I enjoy it, I learn a lot. What kind of Cult member...”Read full review »
PabloVilella via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
02/28/24
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“Please accept my five star review as payment for the knowledge you consistently drop on us.”
Public Commenter via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
02/26/24
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“Eric and Omar are fantastic hosts. When Eric speaks, on the other hand, I have to check if my ears are bleeding.
Regardless, the science podcasts are informative and meet listeners at any level of education. I have learned so much and developed such an appreciation of research from this podcast...”Read full review »
T°åşť via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
02/20/24
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“Seriously?? Look at Arnold’s podcast and learn something….think of the “customer” not your own virtue signalling. At least do shorts.”
Fullsterker via Apple Podcasts ·
Great Britain ·
02/12/24
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“Long time listener and first time commenter. I followed Trex over from the enemy podcast, though through out the years I was always listening to iron culture as reconnaissance.
The banter is incredible and exercise / nutrition science is always nuanced and well thought out.
The only thing...”Read full review »
Loverofknowledge via Apple Podcasts ·
Australia ·
01/25/24
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“Oh boy, what a gem have I found. This podcast goes all in on the banter, just to make a u-turn and deep dive into science.
Eric(s) and Omar are incredible in swapping between banter-mode and science communication and the chemistry between all of them makes it the more pleasant to listen too....”Read full review »
Dasjenige123 via Apple Podcasts ·
Germany ·
01/24/24
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“The Iron Culture podcast, “arm”ed with the holy trinity of fitness, OEE, offers practical, digestible information with a high protein digesting lift index. Truly one of the podcasts of all time, a gestalt union of incredible minds.”
Tony the roofer via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
01/22/24
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“Omar and Eric are a fantastic duo who brings many great guests to the podcast. Even though not all episodes fits my interest, they have such a good variety in topics and themes. This is a podcast with many interesting discussions and gives the listeners different perspectives of the discussed...”Read full review »
MichaelNV via Apple Podcasts ·
Norway ·
01/08/24
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“Every Monday I find myself excitingly awaiting a new episode. Being an endurance athlete I’m probably not the most typical audience, but hey, even us weirdos get love from the top of the pyramid. I found putting a few pounds of muscle on my fragile body really helps as a cyclist when I inevitably...”Read full review »
Rock_is_natty via Apple Podcasts ·
Slovenia ·
01/08/24
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“The Iron Culture Podcast has been my favorite podcast ever since I tuned in a year ago. Besides the informative content, I really love the humor of the hosts and how knowledgeable they are. Being an undergrad at Duke, I even got the chance to talk with Dr. Eric Trexler in person (I was ecstatic...”Read full review »
Ken.Ye. via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
12/26/23
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“You believed it dogmatically and ignored the mountainous sample size of anecdotes to the contrary…
You let it be your religion as you kept making bodybuilding your top priority, all the while being below the 50th percentile for size and leanness in the general population…
You adopted the “us vs...”Read full review »
MaximumEffortBoy (M.E.B) via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
12/10/23
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“I started listening to you guys about a year ago, I started from the beginning and have been powering through as well as listening to the most recent episodes when they come out. I love the guests and how consistent you guys have been with each episode. The amount of research that goes into each...”Read full review »
JAWine25 via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
11/29/23
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“Omar, the Erics and an ever growing number of amazing guests delivers the goods every time! They bring their expertise, their hunkiness and the latest science, to unite all lifters. They truly stand on top of different objects.”
biologicalAIbot via Apple Podcasts ·
Norway ·
11/28/23
“Love the podcast! Eric Trexler is a great addition. I would strongly recommend this to friends who were into lifting, bodybuilding and fitness… if I had any.
My only complaint is the lack of content related to the psychological benefits of community pools. There has been a lot of talk...”Read full review »
Mr General Population Lifter via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
11/21/23
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“Love the Iron Culture podcast. It’s like the Car Talk of resistance training. Hearing the Erics’ stories was pretty rad. I wasn’t a fan of Helms dropping the G***ed slur in there about when he felt he was slighted by some judging results, but I’m reasonably certain he didn’t know how derogatory...”Read full review »
ZTHardman via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
11/16/23
“As a fellow 30-something years old Eric, I find other 30-something years old Eric’s to be the most trustworthy source of information. As such by going from 1 Eric to 2 has increased the podcast’s trustworthiness by 100%.”
Smelly Ghost via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
11/13/23
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“When I first heard about Iron Culture I knew I had to try it but I wasn’t sure how I was going to fit another podcast into my busy schedule. After considering this puzzle for a while I came up with the answer: instead of listening during the day, I could pipe Iron Culture directly to my muscles...”Read full review »
SonicTheHugehog via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
09/27/23
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“Imo the best of the science based lifting podcasts. Lots of love for Dr.Mike at RP , The good Doctors at BB medicine and the Nuckols’ ( and Trex May he RIP ) over at Stronger by science. But Omar and the The “Real” Eric are simply the Untouchable , unmatched , unparalleled, unrelenting , meatiest...”Read full review »
chronicles012 via Apple Podcasts ·
Canada ·
09/12/23
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“The podcast episode 231 “keeping strength when cutting and fibre type specific hypertrophy” at minute 26 in the 18-3second period shows a weird growl we are meant to believe is omar?
I want answers on that, was it a weird cough or when played backwards do commands to spill the blood of the...”Read full review »
Oldmateappstore via Apple Podcasts ·
Australia ·
08/02/23
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“Spinoza wrote, “Emotion, which is suffering, ceases to be suffering as soon as we form a clear and precise picture of it.” However, Spinoza did not have the chance to listen to this podcast. If he did, he would understand that there is some suffering that cannot and should never be endured....”Read full review »
FakeReviews.com/ad via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
07/25/23
“7/23 update. Didn’t read my first review. Super sad. Meanwhile still no golf strength and speed training ep. Super sad. Meanwhile I’m working out, gettin swole, hittin the ball a mile, takin the creatine and protein, still vegan. Still waiting … much love for the cult.
Intelligent, funny, deep...”Read full review »
joseph naus via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
07/17/23
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“High value information and the audio quality is solid enough to listen to in one ear while running a chainsaw which is hard to find.”
fakeplasticmango via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
07/12/23
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“A 10 billion dollar value, and it’s good. Iron Culture positions itself for all lifters within a complicated fitness space. Iron Culture an idiosyncratic paradigm on its own accord. Even among science-based media, Iron Culture separates itself by going above and beyond by providing data, sources,...”Read full review »
VP983 via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
07/02/23
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“Good podcast very knowledgeable. Not a fan of the excessive banter”
yesyesyes19 via Apple Podcasts ·
Canada ·
06/26/23
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“I was happy to see Trexler on the recent episode for even more Eric representation. But as a Northern European person I’m concerned that the show is propagating America centric linguistic misinformation. I think you should have an Erik or Eerik on your show to balance this out.”
Eerik Suggs via Apple Podcasts ·
Great Britain ·
05/29/23
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“I am your biggest fan from Iceland. I listen while I punish the iron in the gym and all too often I laugh out loud at the sense of humour from these two gems. I know so much more about all aspects of lifting and dieting as a result of bingeing on every single episode, some even twice. Thank you...”Read full review »
Ragganagli via Apple Podcasts ·
Denmark ·
05/05/23
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“Wow! At first I thought I had found a podcast about the cultural significance of cast iron cookware - e.g. skillets, soup pots, and dutch ovens. I was totally wrong. Omar and Eric do not talk about cooking at all, unless you count gnarly microwaved chicken breast recipes. However, the hosts do...”Read full review »
Funkazoid_ver3 via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
05/03/23
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“I listened to the Carnivore Diet episode and while I understand the overall apprehension about such a diet, it is so clear that these guys didn't study up. They focus solely on the fact that the carnivore diet attracts fringe anti establish folks, which isn't wrong, but they don't...”Read full review »
Ichablog Crane via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
04/26/23
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“I am consistently impressed by the quality of the Iron Culture episodes, but I was glued to my seat with the in-person episode reflecting on Sheffield. Truly, it was a monster episode. The only way it could have been more monstrous would have been to extend the episode 3 hours with a session of...”Read full review »
Jon Yih via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
04/15/23
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“Having listened to variety of lifting podcasts over the decades, this show is the best. As an old history teacher that loves to lift, the episodes featuring Connor are a real treat. Now I’m going to go find some heavy rocks out here in Western Canada to go lift.”
Steve42069 via Apple Podcasts ·
Canada ·
04/11/23
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“The information from this podcast is great much better than the MacroFactor podcast really. However really disappointed that Eric obviously spent weeks mastering just a elegant Canadian accent only to stop using it after a a couple minutes of the episode.”
Maximus Hall via Apple Podcasts ·
Canada ·
03/15/23
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“Hi, I’m from Sweden, and let’s be honest Scandinavia is just a crappier Canada but in Europe.. I just wanna say that this episode was killer. Surrendering your souls to the old gods has definitely made you master podcasters. Praise Paimon🙏 Now I have a silly question for Eric, about...”Read full review »
TF II via Apple Podcasts ·
Sweden ·
03/14/23
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“It pains me to admit that as a pre-teen who worshipped Franco Columbo and The Austrian Oak in the late 80s, the idea of a podcast combining scientific journal research and esoteric humor never crossed my mind. (At the time, I had no idea what ‘esoteric’ meant; to be fair, Steve Jobs had no idea...”Read full review »
PersistPowerlifting via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
03/06/23
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“There now is a Cult-ure of Iron
With smart, jacked hosts worthy of mirin’
Along came the guests
Who scienced da best
And now all the gurus retirin’.”
jantonio88 via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
03/02/23
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“Finally we have an episode with Helmsie by himself, the knowledge guru, the Elle MacPherson of the lifting world. I think this might be the best ever episode! You clobbered it cobber!”
schlonglongdongabong via Apple Podcasts ·
Australia ·
02/25/23
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“Great information. Guests are always experts. Slice of life attitude, good humor. My only issue is the following: if we finally achieve Omar’s obvious yearning for a fully privatized free-market society, who will build the roads? Has he thought this over before?”
Drew16701 via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
02/20/23
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“I love the humorous pseudo-intellectual style these guys discuss important topics like the masculinity crisis. (Didn’t really know this currently is a thing.)”
PPQCR via Apple Podcasts ·
Japan ·
02/18/23
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“Please do not stop these episodes I look forward to them every couple weeks. Research is amazing and the banter is not too bad.”
DL custom via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
02/16/23
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“Would have received a 5 but I’m not a fan of so much fluff and banter especially as humour is subjective. Sorry guys just being honest.
Love the rest.”
Aiite via Apple Podcasts ·
Australia ·
01/24/23
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“Where do I start, on the way to the gym, at home, whilst researching hypertrophy and nutrition (doing 3 things at once, typing, reading, listening). Best podcast to learn, with some funny jokes to, always a wide variety of topics and if I have a question about my own training and bodybuilding...”Read full review »
ZanoLifts via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
01/18/23
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“I am a real life, honest-to-god Delaware lawyer who happens to be a cultist. Yes, we actually exist.
I think I can explain my love for this podcast by way of analogy. In fitness, as in corporate law, proxies make the entire system work. In corporate law, a proxy is a person empowered to vote...”Read full review »
DGCL1899 via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
01/14/23
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“Aloha from Hawai’i, my name is Dom. I’ve been a cult member for about 1 year now and I must say, each Monday since my initiation to the cult, I’ve grown more and more grateful to the degree of which Omar and Eric have opened my eyes to quality research; especially in a world where social media...”Read full review »
Dom_808_12 via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
01/11/23
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