Thank you for your whataboutism. OP brought up Lebron James because he likes to publicly moralize about how certain lives matter and ignores an actual genocide in the country keeping him paid.
Should we spend more time on LeBron James' hypocrisy or the President of the United States' hypocrisy? One is the most powerful person in the world, the other is a basketball player. Focusing on LeBron is just another red herring to distract.
I guess Rippletoe stole it from Bill Starr "Strongest shall survive; strength training for football" then.
This study is bloody awful. For all we know it's the fruit loops which improve rat cognitive function.
The only good thing I'll say about it, is when the NYT starts reporting on the health benefits of X, it means X (drinking red wine, high fat diets, etc) has become trendy among the self regarding upper middle class. Weights; it's about time.
> when the NYT starts reporting on the health benefits of X, it means X (drinking red wine, high fat diets, etc) has become trendy among the self regarding upper middle class
I realized long ago so many of my long-term life decisions were based on thinkpieces in The Atlantic, The New York Times, or a similar publication.
Choosing experiences over stuff, eating only "real food" and cutting out sugar, getting more involved in community events and not being such a shut in -- all traced back to thinkpieces.
It's not a rip-off. That doesn't even make any sense in an environment where you see people taking programs and basically remixing them or improving on them all the time. Taking inspiration, maybe. The weaknesses of SS are generally well-known (such as criminally low amount of volume), which is why people recommend programs like StrongLifts, GZCLP or 531 for beginners instead.
This is the inevitable result of clueless reporting on bad epidemiological studies.
Look at any study behind one of these headlines and there will be a raft of confounding factors that were never controlled for. The data is close to meaningless at a certain point.
