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You're just presupposing the researchers don't know anything about strength training, any basis for that other than some lazy guess?

• robomartin 4y ago
  > any basis for that other than some lazy guess? Reading papers on the subject and working with researchers in the context of discussing different training methodologies for space-going missions? The knowledge gap between someone who is mostly an academic and someone who has the formal training matched with real-world experience is vast. When you attempt a 250 lb squat and your body shuts down and just collapses under the weight you learn things you cannot learn any other way. That's an extreme case, of course. Yet, I've been in a room when researcher proposed ideas that seemed sensible to them and everyone in the room who actually had time actually lifting and training just rolled their eyes. This is true of any field. Experience is incredibly valuable. The only people who do not value experience are those who do not have it and somehow believe they have superpowers that allow them to reinvent things that have been learned the hard way by so many.
  • hhmc 4y ago
    > When you attempt a 250 lb squat and your body shuts down and just collapses under the weight you learn things you cannot learn any other way. This is one of those glib statements that sounds reasonable, but is clearly meaningless on any real thought. It’s like saying you can’t understand high energy physics without personally being collided with a particle at 3 TeV.