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Comment #48106522
Yeah, fortunately went away. For me it would always appear after like 30s of being on the page, meaning I would have to reload all the time while reading comments. Effective way fo…
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Comment #47806842
It seems rather obvious that skipping breakfast is not causally related to obesity, rather it maybe correlates with other behaviors that are.
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Comment #47679733
nope
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Comment #47213998
> in place of animal protein makes it sound like this is unrelated to soy specifically and more about displacing less healthful things (like higher saturated fat and caloric animal…
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Comment #47071583
> Everyone's back is screwed up its bad framing to label this as "degenerative" and "screwed up" as nowadays we learn that there are probably more age-related. As you say, they cor…
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Comment #47071570
Most people don't exercise to preserve muscle mass and function and especially don't do full range of motion resistance training, most of this is probably preventable.
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Comment #47071542
This is well known for spine issues in general: MRI is super unspecific, and the older you get, the more interesting things you can find on the scans. Even if you're fully asymptom…
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Comment #46781386
My understanding is that it doesnt even do that, because it creates false negatives for the so called skinny fat body type: significant visceral fat mass, which is what we are conc…
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Comment #46763261
Does it? I think strength may be related to pain if you're very weak, and statistically there are big confounders (i.e. people who are weak also have other conditions that exacerba…
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Comment #46763228
Adhesions are not really a thing as far as i know. Biggest priority is strength and cardiovascular training and maintaining a good body composition and stress level. Then I'd think…
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Comment #46757909
Luckily there is no such thing as "correct posture".
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Comment #46757890
I guess it's technically cool, but one should be aware that there is no such thing as "good posture" or no accepted definition that lends itself to good science. slouching isnt bad…
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Comment #46719897
never heard of that, sounds wild. Any source for this?
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Comment #46597479
Great, your one of the few. Statistics are pretty clear that most people cannot willpower their way out of their food seeking behaviours. They are to a large extent not under your …
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Comment #46468906
> Daher habe die Bundesnetzagentur die CUII gebeten, die Überprüfung mutmaßlich urheberrechtsverletzender Seiten künftig gerichtlich vornehmen zu lassen. this is not a requirement,…
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Comment #46468885
In many ways those are the same thing up to a point. Although strength is probably more predictive of health than muscle size.
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Comment #46468877
I live in a population where 90% of physical therapists will do placebo manual treatments and susbcribe to unscientific ideas about imbalances and "moving wrong".
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Comment #46468865
My point is that there is nothing a priori about it, its just a question of what your goal is, what you are adapted to do and how the resistance curve of the movement is set up. If…
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Comment #46456758
thats a different thing tho. the term "stretch mediated hypertrophy" is used loosely in many places and i think originally refers to really just hypertrophy caused by the stretch. …
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Comment #46456742
akshually theres quite some interesting data on this. it has been shown that stretching alone can indeed produce hypertrophy (in birds and humans), but the required protocols are s…
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Comment #46456695
these days your better of not reading that, probably. bunch of outdated and bad advice coming from that corner.
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Comment #46456664
Perfect form isnt a thing, its all a matter of what joint positions you are adapted to produce or reduce force in. So the problem with form breakdown isnt that the position you end…
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Comment #46456612
Why? Most people don't build up to such a stimulus, so its not surprising if its uncomfortable, if all youve ever done is 20 rep sets.
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Comment #46456601
> Volume itself is meaningless. The only thing that matters is the intensity of the workout Not true at all, its well documented that volume is the biggest predictor of progress. t…
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Comment #46456542
The podcast is where the real meat is, not all of it is on youtube. Best way to innoculate you against bullshit.