Comments on: Do ice baths suppress muscle gains?

By: CVLR

CVLR — Wed, 04 Sep 2019 22:17:30 +0000

Felix, it tells you that 90% of your results are coming from 10% of your effort. The 10% being good food, a bit of exercise, and the occasional extreme sport, and the other 90% being everything else. Your fitness gets canalised, by the way; if you train to a high standard and keep it, it gets easier and easier to maintain.

By: Felix

Felix — Mon, 02 Sep 2019 00:30:19 +0000

So, does this tell us to exercise your legs and ice your arms? Exercise your arms, ice your legs?

By: Graham

Graham — Sun, 01 Sep 2019 22:07:03 +0000

Don’t look too closely at the matrix.

Look what happened to the Wachowskis.

By: Kirk

Kirk — Sun, 01 Sep 2019 16:34:09 +0000

Personally, the reason for all this boils down to another iteration of the well-known Hawthorne Effect.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawthorne_effect

I strongly suspect that if you dig down and examine the root basis for a lot of this stuff, you’re going to find that there’s a maddening amount of this sort of quantum kind of thing going on: The improvement isn’t coming because you did something, it’s coming because you observed it and paid attention to it.

This is one reason I’m starting to wonder if this universe of ours isn’t a damn simulation or a variety of consensus reality. There’s a “reproduction problem” with a lot of modern science, and it seems that the more deeply we look at things, the more wildly “off” it gets, and the more influence the investigator has on the outcome. At a fine enough grain, it sure starts to look like reality ain’t what we think it is.

Somebody wakes me up in a lab somewhere and tells me that I’ve been taking part in some kind of experiment, I’m not gonna be too surprised. It would explain so much of the weird sh*t I keep running into…

By: Ross

Ross — Sun, 01 Sep 2019 13:24:00 +0000

How long before broscience commentators are crowing that they’re getting jacked by taking scalding showers?

“Go ahead, soycake, be a man, see if you can tough out a hot shower right after your workout.”