By Eric Troy I’ve complained and I’ve complained about silly quantitative notions concerning the factors that determine success. It’s 20% percent training, 80% nutrition and stuff like that. Complete and utter nonsense. Says nothing. Contributes nothing. But when I heard a fellow on YouTube recently assert that muscle building is all about your mind, I … Read more
Do you find it odd that there are so many articles about why your fitness plan, diet, bodybuilding or strength training program isn’t working while just about any such plan or program is largely reported as successful? In fact, I’ve never seen a strength training or bodybuilding program developed for a mass audience that didn’t … Read more
Originally published on April 14, 2016, as Risk Aversion and Fear Avoidance in the Fitness Industry I was reading a long and engaging article the other day by a fitness trainer who was reacting to what she saw as hypocrisy in the fitness industry. I very much appreciated the article and I let her know … Read more
Whenever you hear a fitness professional talk about what humans were “meant” to do or designed to do, your bullshit meter should be pinging. Online fitness gurus love to vomit forth all sorts of hypotheses about what the human body was designed to do. And, when I say hypotheses, I mean uneducated, ignorant guesses. Those … Read more
In motor learning theory, the everyday and specialized movements we perform are called motor skills. Motor skills can be conceptualized in various ways. You can think of them as individual tasks, such as typing on your computer or performing a barbell squat, or you can think of them in terms of the proficiency you bring, … Read more
Originally published on June 22, 2014 By Eric Troy and Tony Ingram Is Personal Training a Real Need? Of the following items, which do you feel you absolutely need: Food, water, clothing, shelter, microwave oven, cell phone, and personal training? A bit of a daft question, perhaps. We know, as humans, that our absolute necessities of … Read more