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"Sedentary people who do calf raises while sitting for 2 to 4 hours show 50% less blood glucose than those who just sit. "
That's terrible science, a waste of brainpower and clickbait.
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Shhh... This is a way to people to stop skipping training their calves. It's funny how they call it a soleus pushup but this is the basic movement called seated calf raise.
It's actually not. The reason he mentioned what's going on on the inside is not what you think is going on by looking from the outside. Sit in that same position, and then do a lift part way. At some point, you'll find a "spring" balance, where you can autonomously drum your leg. The muscle that is doing that triggered flex is the only muscle you are focusing on with the Soleus Pushup. Except for the SP, you are trig…
Perhaps the ROM is different or it is a quasi-isometric contraction, the paper is not very clear.
These claims sound pretty suspect and much more selective journals than iScience have published completely bogus research before. Would like to see this replicated many, many times before anyone starts selling a product whose purported benefits are demonstrated solely from a single research study from a highly conflicted author.
> much more selective journals than iScience have published completely bogus research before. Do you post this under every journal article? Reminding everyone that things have been false before in places?
These claims sound pretty suspect and much more selective journals than iScience have published completely bogus research before. Would like to see this replicated many, many times before anyone starts selling a product whose purported benefits are demonstrated solely from a single research study from a highly conflicted author.
> much more selective journals than iScience have published completely bogus research before. Do you post this under every journal article? Reminding everyone that things have been false before in places?
From the article: So, how do you perform a soleus pushup? In brief, while seated with feet flat on the floor and muscles relaxed, the heel rises while the front of the foot stays put. When the heel gets to the top of its range of motion, the foot is passively released to come back down. The aim is to simultaneously shorten the calf muscle while the soleus is naturally activated by its motor neurons.
Appreciate your reply.
I'm a former journalist, and I'd like to touch on some of the comments about how this article reads like a dubious infomercial, with a lot of outsized claims that are setting off people's B.S. detectors. They set off mine, as well. But you have to remember that this is not a news article. It is not written by someone with any degree of expertise in the subject matter. Rather, it's written by a member of the media-rel…
Very likely it's not the professor hyping it, but the uni communications office. This reads like a typical uni press release. The scientists typically have little influence on it, they typically read the text that there is no factual errors, but they also leave it to the subject experts (the journalists/communicators) to write the text.