There was link in that article to this article, lol.

Now they're cross-linked!

I mentioned specificity also in Slow Versus Fast Pulls: Why is the Deadlift a Slow Pull and the Olympic Lifts Fast Pulls? in regards to the question of whether Cleans or Powercleans benefit the deadlift.

There was link in that article to this article, lol.

I never realized how tricky specificity is. I guess I should have been listening more closely, there is a huge difference between "ought" & "is".

Yeah I've mentioned this as a prevalent issue throughout the fitness world. And it is a very important thing to realize. I know that people read this kind of stuff from me and focus on the more technical information and ignore kinds of things like the is/ought problem because they think I'm just being philosophical or filling out the article. But I'm not. It is a fundamental problem in critical thought and if you really pay attention to what people say and how they say it you'll see that most people say IS but mean "should be", or in other words "ought". Pointing it out to them will do no good. I've tried, lol.

However, being aware of it virtually erases a big pile of wheat leaving the chaff much easier to locate.

I mentioned specificity also in Slow Versus Fast Pulls: Why is the Deadlift a Slow Pull and the Olympic Lifts Fast Pulls? in regards to the question of whether Cleans or Powercleans benefit the deadlift.

What you have to understand is that studies in specificity tend to deal with training transfer to sport. I hate to be the bearer of bad news but nobody much cares how your Romanian deadlifts transfer to your squats. Nobody sporting a lab coat anyway.

Wow, that is news to me, it's funny how some Guru's will tell you to do this, this & this & your lift of choice will go up. In fact, "we've" been told that as well at our gym.

Hume was writing about moral ethics but in purely scientific terms we see this error all the time and it is a big problem in studies of specificity since we are "observing" what happens and then wondering if it "ought" to result in a certain performance improvement or transfer.

I never realized how tricky specificity is. I guess I should have been listening more closely, there is a huge difference between "ought" & "is".

The average trainer, coach, or fitness guru is no more qualified to design an effective and legitimate study into specificity (or anything) than I am to recreate a Jackson Pollack. No matter how drunk I get.

Brilliant