Apologies, no blog this week
I was going to review a study on ankle taping this week, but packing to move across the country, trying to plan a trip across the ocean and trying to study across all subjects got in the way. Read More...
HIIT vs Steady State–Again.
Thanks to Mike Knowles who suggested this week’s study (which, incidentally, was incorrectly cited in that publication you sent me, but that’s not your fault 🙂 ). Read More...
Abstracts! Huh! What are they good for?
I think it’s a pretty safe statement to say that most fitness end-users, and even trainers, do not have the time or the interest (or, in some cases, the access) to read full papers. Most people tend to have easy access to PubMed abstracts, and are quite happy to read the “chunk-style” format of an abstract (thanks, Lou) because they’re generally short, and fairly easy to understand (because brevity forces simplicity most of the time). Read More...
Beta-alanine: The Harris Study (this is what grad students are actually used for)
I was going to write a review of the Harris study on beta-alanine, but after reading it in detail, I realized it wasn’t a randomized controlled trial at all, but rather a physiological study, with biochemical outcomes, but no “functional” ones. And despite the fact that one of their experiments was a “quasi” randomized controlled trial, I haven’t got a lot to say about it because this was not a study to look at the effectiveness of BA, but rather to profile its effects. On the up side, there was a rather nice recipe for chicken broth–which is where they got their beta-alanine for one of the experimental groups: Read More...
Another beta-alanine study. Don’t buy the hype.
Some day, I’m going to preface a review with a sentence like, “Today’s study was really well done. I was impressed by the comprehensiveness of the reporting, the concise data analysis and the practical relevance of the trial.” Read More...
Follow-up on the PWCft
In my last post, I said I would defer to an EMG expert with regards to the PWCft test. So, I did. Read More...
Beta-alanine vs. um…stuff. No one really wins.
Ok, I’m behind the times. By about 3 months. But you know, it’s ’cause I have to go searching for this stuff all by myself! Maybe we should consider this a bit of catch-up, since the blog was started only a month ago. If you see a good study, or mention of one, send me the freaking reference! Some “cutting edge” blogger I turned out to be, eh… Read More...