Good news for squatters

[ben84]

Maybe this will get more people squatting:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8236384.stm

Although it will probably just make the leg press station busier.

[Mark Rippetoe]

I'm always happy to be validated by the BBC.

[quadancer]

That's no good either, because, the leg press is where we go to rest the back between dead and squat sets.

[Ian Kovtunovich]

Further validation for Rip, via a link on the MSN.com homepage, no less: http://health.msn.com/blogs/get-back...4718&gt1=31036

(Typically the health and fitness stuff they link to is junk, although I tend to click on it occasionally anyway. This was pretty damn surprising.)

[Jefferson]

Holy fucking shit but this is some of the worst 'science' that I have ever seen.

What on earth..?

1)Correlation /=/ causation

2)No one has repeated the experiment...

...actually fuck this, I'm not going to spell out all the ways this is retarded because that would be a waste of my time, suffice it to say this type of 'reasoning' is what is wrong with the human race, and it fucks up every field of human endeavour.

[Mark Rippetoe]

Oh no, there's much worse stuff than this. Look up some of our previous "milk" threads.

[Sanjuro]

1)Correlation /=/ causation

2)No one has repeated the experiment... .

A causal relationship is actually suggested and the the study has just come out, taking 10 years to make. How do you expect anyone to already have repeated the experiment?

[jgrube]

this is from the original article.


HOW TO INCREASE YOUR THIGHS
Go to a gym and train three times a week
Exercise all the muscles in your thighs
Use a weight you can only just lift 10 times in a row
Over 3 months you will increase thighs by 6% to 10%
Source: Loughborough University

[Mark Rippetoe]

Sanjuro has a point. The Scandinavians are sticking together.

[Jefferson]

A causal relationship is actually suggested and the the study has just come out, taking 10 years to make. How do you expect anyone to already have repeated the experiment?

Yes but they have yet to test their hypothesis, it's pure speculation at the moment. And of course they couldn't repeat their experiment yet, what I have a problem with is that an untested hypothesis to explain the results of an unrepeated study is being recommended as a diagnostic criterion. Why this was even reported on is beyond me.