Anyone remember who Susan Powter was? She was a motivational speaker / fitness "expert" whos claim to fame was the line "stop the insanity!". She was Tony Little with a buzz cut and she was nuts, but she was talking about all the quick weight loss gimmicks and fad diets and why they dont work and damn its a good line.
I never thought in a million years i would say anything like this but when it comes to Sports Performance Training I get where she was coming from. There is just so much Bull----! out there I can't stand it anymore. Hence the creation of my blog!
My goal here is to shed some truth in training. Some people will like what i have to say and some won't... but I hope that either way it will make you think! There is not alot of that going around in our profession right now....dont believe me? Log on to any of the popular training websites and read the articles....really read them...now step back and think did i just read something just like this on another site? Or by a different author? Answer is probably yes. There is an awful lot of intellectual regurgitation going on out there in cyberspace...dont get me wrong the internet is an amazing research tool for our profession but since it is unfiltered there is more bad advice out there than good.
So how do you filter out the real from the fake the good from the bad? Start by googling the authors...Who are they? Where were they educated? What were they educated in? Where have they worked? Who have they trained? For how long? Does what they are saying make sense? Is it based in science and supported by experience? These are not irrelevant questions believe me....I want to know the validity of the "expert advice" I am about to read.
So thats the basic idea....lots more to come!
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