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Well, medicine has its own replication problem. But the broader reason why this analogy doesn't work is that most medical treatments (medical devices, drugs, e

Well, medicine has its own replication problem. But the broader reason why this analogy doesn't work is that most medical treatments (medical devices, drugs, etc.) are subject to a really stringent approval & evidence of efficacy process. As they should be! But there just isn't anything similar in exercise science. Studies that prove, like, plyometric wall bounces make you more explosive or something are just incredibly underpowered versus the level of evidence required for the FDA to approve a medical device or drug. If ES studies were somehow conducted with that same level of funding & rigor, I would take them a million times more seriously. In practice, it's an n=10 or 20 study with a bunch of undergrads for a p value of .0501 or something

rTX5CMRXIfFG 4y ago
What studies, exactly, prove that plyometric bounces make you more explosive “or something”? More explosive for the purposes of what? Do you even know the principle of specificity? Are you saying that what we call “knowledge” of anatomy and physiology and nutrition are actually invalid because they’re just derived from college students? Are you even aware that meta-analyses exist and that it takes that degree of veracity before studies make it to reference books, or are you really just complaining about pop fitness articles and discussions that you’ve read from bodybuilding.com? I have to ask, sorry, because your line of questioning is so devoid of rigor that you can only be coming from a position of arrogant ignorance, and it’s glaringly obvious.