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In Part 1 of Why Everything Old Is New Again, John Romaniello discussed the golden age of bodybuilding. In Part 2, he takes a look at the legitimacy of “broscience.” Though different definitions of broscience exist, it is just observation paired with rationalization: A phenomenon is observed and then an argument is proposed for its occurrence. [...]
In
Part 1 of Why Everything Old Is New Again, John Romaniello discussed the golden age of
bodybuilding. In Part 2, he takes a look at the legitimacy of “broscience.” Though different definitions of broscience exist, it is just observation paired
with rationalization: A phenomenon is observed and then an argument is proposed for its
occurrence. Reasoning is backward-engineered from the result. Sometimes, of course, that
reasoning will be flawed — but flawed reasoning does not invalidate the result. And this
is something that the fitness industry is finally being forced to admit. As you will see,
scientists owe bodybuilders an apology.
True Lies: Research Vindicates Broscience
If we are being honest and judging the past by the standard of the present, Arnold and
his crew were certified broscientists in the sense that nothing they did was
scientifically validated. As I stated in Part
1, many of the claims or recommendations that came out of that era are considered
false, and this has tainted the ones that we can consistently observe to be true, at least
in the sense that they work. This is changing, however, because (ironically)
science is now telling us that — whoops — bodybuilders do know what they are doing. What
I mean is that we now have some research that shows that the bodybuilders of yore were
right — and that even when they were wrong, there weren’t necessarily far off the
mark. To give you an example, let’s look at training
for fat loss. For years, coaches fought against the idea that doing high reps with
lighter weights gets you shredded. That idea is often put forth as one of the greatest
myths to come out of bodybuilding’s golden age, and that’s fair. In the truest
since, it isn’t accurate; but it’s also not exactly false — just incomplete.
Performing a traditional bodybuilding routine with high reps and low weight
isn’t going to get you shredded. But, if you take it a step further and set up the
exercises from that routine in a circuit fashion, you’ve got something that looks
very similar to what we now call metabolic resistance training, which those same coaches
laud as one of the most effective training methodologies for fat loss. Can we
say unequivocally that 40 years ago bodybuilders weren’t using circuits or keeping
their rest periods short? Of course not. But that didn’t stop people from
criticizing the entire idea. A small tweak to something that we once considered foolish,
and you have the foundation of nearly every fat-loss program available these days. Oh,
and, yeah — we’ve got studies to back that up. Still not convinced that
observation is enough to push progress, or that bodybuilders have been right for a long
time? Let’s take it a step further and look at one of the hallmarks of traditional
bodybuilding workouts: selective hypertrophy. As early as the 1950s, bodybuilders
have been staunch in the notion that varying exercises and body positions can target
distinct areas of individual muscles, preferentially recruiting fibers of a specific area
during the movements — that rotating a dumbbell during a curl activates the lateral more,
or that leaning forward during dips shifts focus to the chest. But for close to 20 years,
we’ve been told not to do that, simply because there wasn’t research to back it up
– and, unfortunately, being pro-research seems to mean being anti-bodybuilding.
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This is an obvious problem — you have personal trainers and coaches who get so wrapped up in the value of studies that they fail to see value in anything else, and, by extension, immediately devalue anything that hasn’t been tested in a research lab or published in a peer-reviewed journal. If it hasn’t been [...]
This is an obvious problem — you have personal trainers
and coaches who get so wrapped up in the value of studies that they fail to see value in
anything else, and, by extension, immediately devalue anything that hasn’t been
tested in a research lab or published in a peer-reviewed journal. If it hasn’t been
thoroughly researched, it can be overlooked or thought worthless, at least in the eyes of
a certain subset of coaches in the industry. To give you some context,
let’s go back to the golden age bodybuilders for a moment. Without question,
it’s obvious that when it comes to training, they got a number of things wrong. But
they also got a lot right. Unfortunately, much of what they got right (or nearly right)
has been attacked and rejected, simply because there was no hard data to back it up –
only anecdotal (and obvious) reports of results. As research was given higher
and higher esteem, it became acceptable to lambast methods that were supported solely by
observation. In a very real sense, it became almost en vogue to publicly tear down and
mock methods or theories that couldn’t be (or, at least, hadn’t been) proved
effective in a controlled academic environment. Those who were too dependent
on research and the idea of research would laugh at the idea that you should do different
exercises to target different areas of the chest, or change hand position to hit the
biceps differently. Now, there wasn’t a lot of research to back those ideas up
at that point, and while that might seem like fairly straightforward reasoning, science
zealots were, for a time, so intent on tearing town “conventional bodybuilding wisdom”
that they lost sight of something truly important: that it worked. Just
because there aren’t seven studies backing something up doesn’t mean it doesn’t work. In
many, many cases, the gym is a bit ahead of the lab. Again, studies are important — the
issue isn’t wanting to base things on research or wanting to prove things with
research; the issue is that when only one stream of information is willingly incorporated
into the viewpoint, the potential for growth and change will be severely limited, both
personally and within the industry. Let’s take a look at where this has led.
Collateral Damage: The Rise (And Fall) Of Broscience
Eventually, the growing dependence on research as the sole marker of both credibility and
efficacy reached its tipping point. Put bluntly, it became “cool” to make fun
of a number of ideas that Arnold and company touted as fact. More damagingly,
it was no longer just coaches and scientists. The condescension aggressively applied to
theories based only on observation skyrocketed and bled its way into message boards,
discussion forums and the general culture of fitness as a whole — and so it was then that
the term “broscience” came into being. I must assume that there
are some people who may not know this term, so a brief explanation is in order:
Essentially, broscience is a term applied to claims or reasoning based on (potentially
flawed) logic instead of evidence that has been proven in an academic setting. While this
is not a new term — the first online usage that I have found is dated November 2001 –
broscience has only really become part of the common fitness vernacular over the past four
or five years. The important thing to realize is that because of a push toward
research and against everything else, the pendulum has swung to the extent that
“broscience” has become an insult and is hurled at anyone who makes claims or assertions
that they can’t immediately back up with citations. As you might imagine, the use of
this term as an insult has further widened the rift in the community between those who are
interested only in what works and those who are primarily interested in what they can
prove.As you’ll see in part two of this article, which will be published next
Monday, scientists owe bodybuilders an apology.
Continue Reading
This is an obvious problem — you have personal trainers and coaches who get so wrapped up in the value of studies that they fail to see value in anything else, and, by extension, immediately devalue anything that hasn’t been tested in a research lab or published in a peer-reviewed journal. If it hasn’t been [...]
This is an obvious problem — you have personal trainers
and coaches who get so wrapped up in the value of studies that they fail to see value in
anything else, and, by extension, immediately devalue anything that hasn’t been
tested in a research lab or published in a peer-reviewed journal. If it hasn’t been
thoroughly researched, it can be overlooked or thought worthless, at least in the eyes of
a certain subset of coaches in the industry. To give you some context,
let’s go back to the golden age bodybuilders for a moment. Without question,
it’s obvious that when it comes to training, they got a number of things wrong. But
they also got a lot right. Unfortunately, much of what they got right (or nearly right)
has been attacked and rejected, simply because there was no hard data to back it up –
only anecdotal (and obvious) reports of results. As research was given higher
and higher esteem, it became acceptable to lambast methods that were supported solely by
observation. In a very real sense, it became almost en vogue to publicly tear down and
mock methods or theories that couldn’t be (or, at least, hadn’t been) proved
effective in a controlled academic environment. Those who were too dependent
on research and the idea of research would laugh at the idea that you should do different
exercises to target different areas of the chest, or change hand position to hit the
biceps differently. Now, there wasn’t a lot of research to back those ideas up
at that point, and while that might seem like fairly straightforward reasoning, science
zealots were, for a time, so intent on tearing town “conventional bodybuilding wisdom”
that they lost sight of something truly important: that it worked. Just
because there aren’t seven studies backing something up doesn’t mean it doesn’t work. In
many, many cases, the gym is a bit ahead of the lab. Again, studies are important — the
issue isn’t wanting to base things on research or wanting to prove things with
research; the issue is that when only one stream of information is willingly incorporated
into the viewpoint, the potential for growth and change will be severely limited, both
personally and within the industry. Let’s take a look at where this has led.
Collateral Damage: The Rise (And Fall) Of Broscience
Eventually, the growing dependence on research as the sole marker of both credibility and
efficacy reached its tipping point. Put bluntly, it became “cool” to make fun
of a number of ideas that Arnold and company touted as fact. More damagingly,
it was no longer just coaches and scientists. The condescension aggressively applied to
theories based only on observation skyrocketed and bled its way into message boards,
discussion forums and the general culture of fitness as a whole — and so it was then that
the term “broscience” came into being. I must assume that there
are some people who may not know this term, so a brief explanation is in order:
Essentially, broscience is a term applied to claims or reasoning based on (potentially
flawed) logic instead of evidence that has been proven in an academic setting. While this
is not a new term — the first online usage that I have found is dated November 2001 –
broscience has only really become part of the common fitness vernacular over the past four
or five years. The important thing to realize is that because of a push toward
research and against everything else, the pendulum has swung to the extent that
“broscience” has become an insult and is hurled at anyone who makes claims or assertions
that they can’t immediately back up with citations. As you might imagine, the use of
this term as an insult has further widened the rift in the community between those who are
interested only in what works and those who are primarily interested in what they can
prove.As you’ll see in part two of this article, which will be published next
Monday, scientists owe bodybuilders an apology.
Continue Reading
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He turned his passion into hypertrophy, worked his way onto the competition stage, and has big-time bodybuilding aspirations! See how Kai Greene serves as Matt's inspiration! Bodybuilding.com Training Articles
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He turned his passion into hypertrophy, worked his way onto the competition stage, and has big-time bodybuilding aspirations! See how Kai Greene serves as Matt's inspiration! Bodybuilding.com Training Articles
He turned his passion into hypertrophy, worked his way onto the competition stage, and has big-time bodybuilding aspirations! See how Kai Greene serves as Matt's inspiration!
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He turned his passion into hypertrophy, worked his way onto the competition stage, and has big-time bodybuilding aspirations! See how Kai Greene serves as Matt's inspiration! Bodybuilding.com Training Articles
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