Keep It Simple Stupid: Simplicity Gone Wrong
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Imagine you go up to a fruit vendor and notice he only has apples for sale. You bring up the lack of variety and he says, "I believe in the KISS principle: keep it simple stupid."
Sounds ridiculous and unlikely, I know! But KISS has become nothing more than a ready answer for 'experts' who only have apples to offer you. Ask for an orange and they are at a loss. They've given you all they've got and you will likely get berated for 'overthinking' it.
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Spotting Bad Fitness Articles: Dinosaurs Go Extinct
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As you peruse the internet you will come across fitness and strength writers who have written a great many articles or at least whose opinions are freely available in some form. Chances are you'll find someone who was writing articles in the year 2000 and is still writing them today, in 2010. Pay attention to the dates. Pay attention to the evolution. Ten years is a long time. Heck even five years is a long time and for me one year is long enough to turn my thinking on a subject one hundred sixty degrees.
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Bodyweight Exercises: The Wide Eyed Effect
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The bodyweight boom is on. To hear people talk you'd think that calisthenics and bodyweight exercises in general had just been invented last year and were the best thing since the camp fire.
Gymnastics skills have been joined to the traditional and well known exercises to create a very popular market. A perfect example is the handstand pushup. A google search will reveal countless articles and also a great many very expensive products supposed to teach you to achieve one.
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Spotting Bad Fitness Articles: Assumptions are Critical
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Assumptions are a perfect subject for this third post in the series. The first two I think held no real surprises. For this one, I wanted to write about something that would challenge your assumptions so I decided to write about assumptions themselves.
A good fitness article must make assumptions. There, I'll bet that threw at least some of you. I mean, aren't the best fitness writers omniscient?
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Controlling Anxiety During Lifting
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Much of the Getting in the Zone series of articles are focused on areas of sport psychology. Having psychologists help athletes perform better is a relatively new thing. While I have drawn from that, as I read some of the articles on this subject (controlling anxiety, etc) from sport psychologists, I wonder if many of them really "get it". Sure they understand the statistics and have a background in the psychology effecting performance, but have they ever been there? Do they know what it feels like? I read with interest an article in the "Mind Games" section of the NSCA's performance training journal by Suzie Tuffey Riewald entitled "Help, I'm Nervous". It's related, of course to my Getting in the Zone series of articles.
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