Pump Culture
Track what lifting culture is starting to care about.
Pump Culture monitors research, creator content, social chatter, editorial sources, and manual observations to surface which exercises, muscles, equipment, movement patterns, and training concepts are gaining momentum. The core score is PumpDex.
What PumpDex measures
PumpDex is a 0–100 momentum score for a tracked term. It blends recent weighted mention volume, period-over-period growth, recency, and lane diversity into one number you can scan.
A term can score high because of attention. Whether the attention is correct, useful, or evidence-based is a separate question.
What PumpDex does not measure
- Truth or scientific validity
- Training effectiveness
- Evidence quality or study rigor
- Safety
- Whether you should add it to your program
A high PumpDex means the term is being talked about. Nothing more.
Signal lanes
Every source item belongs to exactly one lane. Lanes have different authority weights and are kept visually distinct so chatter never masquerades as research.
What is being studied or published in research literature.
What educators, influencers, and fitness creators are packaging into content.
What people are repeating, arguing, memeing, or casually mentioning. Low authority by design.
What fitness media, education sites, and newsletters are discussing.
What broader public/search behavior suggests.
Controlled inputs for high-signal items that lack clean APIs.
Authority vs confidence
Authority is about the source.
A peer-reviewed paper carries higher authority than a viral tweet — independent of what either says.
Confidence is about the match.
Whether the term actually appeared canonically in the title, in the abstract, via an alias, via a parent, or via fuzzy inference.
A low-authority tweet can have a high-confidence match. A high-authority paper can have a low-confidence match. The two are stored independently and always shown side-by-side.