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    The title of this article is completely misleading. The paper concludes nothing about the actual load and instead reflects on the rep range (and due to lifting to failure, I’d argue that both groups lifted heavy for their rep ranges).

    Agreed. Honestly, this is a ridiculous article premise.

    I would caution that at an elite level, it’s difficult to integrate competitions of any variation into a full periodization plan, however. Even if thoe plan dictates that on day X the athlete is to run distance Y, and those happen to coincide with a race of…

    He is a Doctor of Physical Therapy; all new PT programs in the US have moved to a doctorate paradigm.

    Not necessarily. While a proper sweat response is beneficial to maintaining temperature (ergo a good thing), I’ve worked with athletes at the USOEC that had very little of a sweat response (and others in the opposite extreme, admittedly).

    We had one gal on the ski team that had temp autoregulation issues because of her…

    Interesting; I found that audiobooks grabbed my attention too much while writing and ended up switching to NPR (or similar) instead.

    I agree that oftentimes the lateral pain is referred from other structures, and that rolling the lateral thigh can alleviate much of the problem originating from the VL. However, that does not justify loading the fascia with so much strain. Targeted manipulation of the glutes and TFL (even via rolling) is actually…

    I would caution against direct rolling of the IT band; with the lack of elasticity in connective tissues, it can lead to a plastic strain response and subsequent damage. Franklyn-Miller summarized the article here.

    So one of the foremost spine experts (I hope we can agree that McGill can be called such) warns about the usage of a belt, but it’s not a relevant preemptor in an article that uninformed folks may read? Hm.

    Interesting timing, as I’m just recovering from inguinal hernia surgery and have been spending a fair bit of time talking to my surgeon, who’s also heavily involved in the exercise science scene. He (and many other folks that I work with) and I approach belts quite cautiously. Your previous article takes a tentative…

    I enjoyed this video, but I’ll admit that it made me think of a few articles here on LH/Vitals. Despite the fact that exercise science is a mature scientific field (and my field, which is why I limit my criticism to it), plenty of articles are based on individual research instead of review articles or meta-analyses…

    Despite that I’m (purportedly) an great speaker and lecturer (in a research conference and university setting), I still get ridiculously nervous before my presentations and lectures...
    I guess I rely on two other techniques to calm my nerves with more success: treating my nervousness as excitement and reminding myself…

    Great timing; we were just discussing this last week at the TSAC conference. It’s not just hands, though; we see a fair number of back skin infection issues from benches as well. The general consensus from our dinner group was having our athletes not delay that shower after using a public gym.

    Okay, sport biomechanics researcher here. Arm swing is a great compensative mechanism to better maintain center of mass location, but increased swing isn’t going to do squat to “rev up your energy” or “maintain momentum.” And while speed increases are always good in a race, uncontrolled increases downhill are a great…

    OhMyGosh, it’s neat to see one of my brother’s articles here on Lifehacker. Gushing aside, most of the time I find it’s not quite worth leaving my office to head to a coffee shop (or otherwise novel location) in big college towns; too much competition for space and chance of being distracted by my students, research…

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    I think that first article misses the point of the forceful exhale on the concentric phase; we coach it (as you sorta get to later in the article) as a mechanism to help facilitate greater core muscular activation (and therefore stability) without having to rely on the valsalva (as it can have.. deleterious effect, as…

    Honestly, the first thing I suggest to recreational runners is to pick up this book (http://goo.gl/kxJmm7). I had an ex sci class based on that and this periodization book (http://goo.gl/6ZPlhc) back in my undergrad, and its effects on my academic understanding and running performance were profound. But TL:DR, mostly…

    Sure, but as long as the strength training intervention group and the control group are matched, then the benefit of the additional strength training can still be detected. I would suspect that the sample size would have to be much larger with sedentary groups to attain proper power (just due to increased variability…

    Can we clarify some things, here? The study was a meta analysis of other studies, attempting to generalize results among the five publications that met their inclusion criteria. One of those criteria was that the participants had to have a VO2max above 60ml/kg min, placing them well above the average.