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If fitness feels more confusing now than it did five or ten years ago, you’re not imagining it.This week on the podcast, I’m joined by **Dr. Eric Helms** to talk about *why* we wrote the Muscle & Strength Pyramid books in the first place, and why, a decade later, we decided to completely rewrite them for the third editions.This isn’t a marketing episode. It’s a conversation about information overload, false precision, and why most people aren’t stuck because they lack effort — they’re stuck because they’re trying to do too many things at once.In this episode, we discuss:- Why fitness advice has become noisier, not clearer.- How the Pyramid frameworks help you filter what matters from what doesn’t.- Why flexibility done right *improves* results instead of watering them down.- The difference between “progressive overload” and actual progression.- How to train, eat, and live without sacrificing relationships or sanity.We also walk through what’s new in the third editions.If you’ve ever felt overwhelmed by fi