For a frame of reference, the average male has a VO2max of 35-40ml/kg min (less for females, on average); this meta analysis indicated an average increase of 2.32ml/kg min for elite athletes with a VO2max already above 60...

Contact me at mistephe at iastate dot edu and I can forward a copy of the full text (gosh, I wish our academic works weren’t hidden behind paywalls).

You’re talking about specific structures, however (and are generally right in concept). But overall joint stress is heavily dependent on internal and external moments…

Okay, biomechanics researcher and CSCS here. Setting aside the image (that’s just a stock photo), I suspect the premise behind using the physio ball is to assist in pushing the center of mass posteriorly, transferring load to the hips (and off the knees). In my opinion, it’s a complicated and dangerous way to do this,…

We found the same thing when using it with participants running an ultramarathon; there was only a moderate correlation between the 1-10 and 6-20 scale, with the latter correlating better with changes in gait kinematics and split times. The CR10 may be easier to comprehend, but the 6-20 forces you to actually evaluate.

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That’s reverse-engineering the association a bit (and not sure why you’d want to? The only times that folks really rely on the association is if HR monitors aren’t available).

Nope, not unless you’re doing for injury prevention purposes. All sets should be to failure if safe to do so.

The original Borg 6-20 scale was to coincide with heart rate for aerobic exercise; multiplying the self-reported RPE by 10 aligns surprisingly close to HR for healthy adults. Borg then later created the CR10 scale (which goes 1-10) for easier use.
Robertson’s scale just sounds like a self-perceived 1RM assessment...

Same here; single malt doesn’t imply anything beyond being from the same distillery.

I hope so. With the exercise bout being short, compliance probably has a higher chance too. Although compliance in some of our BMD research where we paid participants considerably was still shockingly low. Those same research projects were also rife with parallel increases in other physical activity that diluted the…

Interesting study, but a bit of a messy manuscript. I wonder about compliance in sticking with the prescribed program, and whether those who do were also generally more active, leading to a parallel dose response that may not be attributable to the yoga...

I loved my Saddleback, but it was so dang heavy it ended up in the corner gathering dust. With all the crazy amount of walking I do on the campus that I work, I don’t want my empty bag to weigh more than the textbooks I teach from...

I learned the hard way that a baking sheet doesn’t quite cut it with a spatchcocked bird; it doesn’t have the capacity for the drippings, when then proceed to make a mess...

Yes, but my concern is that Duffin’s comment attacks not kinesio tape, but the field of Kinesiology (and therefore implying exercise physiology, biomechanics, S&C, etc)as a whole.

Woah, woah, woah. The tape may provide arguable benefits (I’m not a believer), but calling the field of Kinesiology a fraud is a bit much.

I should have added; movement velocity increase is an easy mechanism to implement progressive overload and maintain power output, but it comes at the risk of increased loading impulse (i.e. chance of injury)

Okay, I do love bodyweight exercises (they represent quite a bit of my total volume), but when volume is maintained with increased reps (and then progressive overload is similarly implemented), power and strength can be lost in trade with increased muscular endurance. Changing up the exercise can help (I looooove…

Honestly, when I see bodyweight exercises advertised to novices, I wince a bit; they’re often just as dangerous as normal lifting, but don’t have the dangerous stigma that (hopefully) inspires more care.

Okay, this is an example where there’s a difference between an estimation interval and a prediction interval. For the average (which keep in mind may not be representative of a real individual) person, this plateau in the effect may exist, but the effects for a single individual can vary widely, even from this same…

The NSCA’s textbook; sorry; I should have sourced it.

This is a subject a bit contested in the field (and that’s been discussed in comments here on LH before), but a good rule of thumb is certainly no more than 20 sets per muscle group and 40 sets per workout.