This raised a question: If all the latest cutting-edge scientific research says that outdated barbell movements have to be updated with core stability tricks and then integrated into super-short high-intensity muscle-confusion routines, how come none of that did much for me, while the same five lifts repeated for a year caused profound structural changes to my body? The answer, it turns out, is that there are no cutting-edge scientific studies. I don’t mean that exercise physiologists don’t conduct brilliant research. They do. I mean that they rarely research the practical questions you and I want answered, like which workout routine is best. This is completely true. Nutrition research runs into some of the same problems. At the end of the day, it comes down to this: we humans want easy solutions to hard problems, we believe by default that new is better than old and that complex is better than simple, and we are suckers for a good sales pitch. Our back-to-basics approach with nutrition is also the lens through which we view fitness. Get strong by picking (and carrying) heavy things. Move with ease often. Occasionally, run like your life depends on it. Rest adequately. If you are interested in learning more about an excellent strength training approach, this is the book we recommend: tinyurl/k6l6g67 mobile.nytimes/2014/05/25/opinion/sunday/fitness-crazed.html
Posted on: Mon, 02 Jun 2014 15:16:05 +0000
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