Originally Posted by
perman
No, understanding the details. Like beyond compliance and taste, how and why do individual responses vary? Tuscherer had some interesting anecdotes in his emerging strategies video (I highly recommend the long one, even if you're not into RPE-based training). Those anecdotes included different progress curves, such that different cycles and progressions would suit different people, and people needed different cycle lengths. Now this might all sound like unnecessary complexity, but it's kind of the opposite the way Tuscherer does emerging strategies cause it's based on simplifying the program as much as possible in order to tease out patters in order to design for the individual.
Nuckols also had a good post about this, and how all the studies that try to find some optimal way of doing things often ignore all those outliers who respond differently from most people. If you are one of those outliers, you may be fooled into buying into some general principles that apply to most people that may not apply much to you..
This post reeks of brainwashing. There's plenty of good science in the literature (along with all the crap), but Rip has got you convinced there's almost none of it with a simple capital letter...