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New Fads and Fashions in Strength Training that can get fucked.

August 27, 2016
Posted by Marc Keys
Coaching, cross fit, Getting Stronger, Humour, olympic lifting, Opinion, Powerlifting, Strength Training, weightlfiting
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1 The intellectual meathead.Lifting is a verb and verbs by definition are doing words, Rene Descartes is famous for his quote “I think therefore I am” which in a philosophy is a perfectly valid...

12 Dec

Methodology, Research, Scientific method, Sports Science, Strength and Conditioning, Study Design

Observation, Intervention and Sports Science

December 12, 2010
Posted by Marc Keys

One of the biggest hurdles to a lot of sports science data and the interpretation of sports science in data is the gap between the quality of observational studies and intervention studies. In...

08 Jul

Effect size, Math, Meta-analysis, Research, Scientific method, Social sciences, Statistical Consulting, Statistics

The need for meta-analysis

July 8, 2010
Posted by Marc Keys

The idea of science is to decipher the true nature of the world. As people our opinions and thought are prone to way too much bias and interpretation error to ever come up...

26 Jun

Body composition, Business, Environment, Health, Medicine, Meta-analysis, Noise and Vibration Control, Physical exercise, Research, Systematic review

Vibration Training – A Review.

June 26, 2010
Posted by Marc Keys

Welcome to the latest and greatest in exercise science whole body vibration training a modality that is guaranteed to shake the boat! (sorry first and last time I use a pun).It is one of...

13 Jun

Ben Goldacre, Dietitian, Dietitians and Nutritionists, Health, Meta-analysis, Nutrition, Nutritionist, Protein, Research, Science in Society, Scientific method, Social sciences

Agentism, Bias and Horrible Reasoning

June 13, 2010
Posted by Marc Keys

Ironically enough whilst listening too the latest strength and power hour episode I heard a couple of things that got my back up a bit. Three female presenters and Dr. William Kramer were...