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Think you can read studies?
Being able to understand what these mean is damn near impossible.
You read a real life study! So cool.
You learn all about how machines and free weights have identical growth. You start only doing bosu ball movements because you like it. Then the bomb drops 💥
Whilst drinking your evening protein shake you stumble onto another study…
This one has the complete opposite result!
It shows that machines are better than free weights. You get antagonised, frustrated. You look on the past 5 months of work as if it did nothing.
Then this starts to happen again, and again.
Every time you try and interpret a study it ends up getting overruled.
You start to believe studies are useless. Anyone can find a study to prove anything is true. Everyone’s different, they should do what they feel is right ✨
This is even something that influencers start spreading.
It’s a genuine defence for their advice.
Let me drop some cold hard facts
Studies are rarely wrong.
Studies demonstrate physiology accurately
Studies require an understanding of physiology
Although rare, you may have read a study that was wrong before.
A study being wrong doesn’t mean the outcome isn’t the one you want, or the one that’s an absolute truth.
It means that for whatever reasons there was an issue. Data was recorded inaccurately. The entire sample were outliers etc.
The biggest reason a study’s “result” didn’t line up with your expectation is…
You didn’t consider physiology.
The second you learn physiology, you know what to expect.
If they decide to take a certain measurement using X Y or Z, you’ll know how each effect the results.
You’ll understand how the short term, and the long term can effect results.
You’ll know all about the different adaptations that exist.
More importantly, you’ll know what causes genuine growth.
My newsletter covers some of this stuff. The rest of this I’ll start throwing in here and there, maybe I’ll make a PDF too.
As much as I’d love to spread how to really interpret these studies, I don’t want to information overload someone who just wants to reach their goals.
That being said, reply to this email telling me if you want to learn more about this and I’ll be sure to send something back.
Thanks for listening to my rant 🙄
Your Hypertrophy Hero,
Fletcher
P.S. Part of the reason I haven’t been citing studies in this newsletter so far is because I want us to focus on the truth without confusion. Although it’d be easy to make a claim, and then support with a study, I want these physiological concepts to click in your brain. When that happens, you’ll become someone who can poke holes in others frameworks, you’ll know what works and what doesn’t.
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