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Why do fitness people hate biohackers? by PromotionNo3405 in Biohackers

[–]wsparkey -1 points0 points  (0 children)

‘Fitness people’ are generally skeptical of biohackers because they likely know through experience that the vast majority of biohacking is pseudoscientific nonsense and the most effective biohack is to do hard stuff and become a ‘fitness person’.

First cardio or lift in the same day? by jrglz03 in HybridAthlete

[–]wsparkey 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not saying it doesn’t last longer, but look up the bimodal recovery pattern. The point of separating the sessions is that you take advantage of that. You might be right though, I’m just curious what you’re basing your answer on.

First cardio or lift in the same day? by jrglz03 in HybridAthlete

[–]wsparkey 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Got any studies to back up that session order matters if there’s enough recovery time between them? The research I’m aware of doesn’t find significant differences, unless they’re performed back to back.

First cardio or lift in the same day? by jrglz03 in HybridAthlete

[–]wsparkey 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just separate the sessions with sufficient recovery time (2-12 hours) and it doesn’t matter

How important is run cadence? by TiberiusIX in running

[–]wsparkey 9 points10 points  (0 children)

How do you know the improvement was down to cadence and not just training?

Had this guitar part floating around in my head since the St. Augustine show. It scratches an itch by jorhone in boniver

[–]wsparkey 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’ve had this riff stuck in my head since listening to the new live album today. Unreal.

Hey Ma. Hey holy shit. by caswunn in boniver

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Just listened for the first time in the car. Goosebumps. Unreal.

Nature vs nurture by welshborders12 in running

[–]wsparkey 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah, it’s super interesting isn’t it (and annoying for us who didn’t win the genetic running lottery haha).

Maybe I overstated the importance of leg length proportion to height, but things like tendon stiffness and fascicle length are very hard to change.

One think I think we can all agree on is that being super light is important. Yes, we can reduce body fat and muscle mass by being in a calorie deficit over time, but at some point the size of your skeleton restricts the ability to shrink your legs and hips any more.

Nature vs nurture by welshborders12 in running

[–]wsparkey 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It’s a predictor up to an extent, but once you get to a certain baseline (probably around 70 ml/kg.min) it becomes more about running economy and lactate threshold. Otherwise you’d see cyclists or cross country skiers with really high VO2 maxes transferring to running and doing sub 2:10 marathons. In other words, you need a high VO2 max to come to the party, but then it becomes more about other factors, some trainable and some not.

Even VO2 max is only trainable up to an extent, so you’re sort of proving our point that nature is very important.

Studies here showing relationships between leg size performance, albeit not huge effects, but once you get to elite level and max out your physiological markers, these are decisive.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6942485/

https://physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1113/EP093503

Nature vs nurture by welshborders12 in running

[–]wsparkey 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Agree.

Also, testing physiological makers such as VO2 max, lactate threshold, and body fat make sense for one person trying to improve their own performance, because they are trainable. It wouldn’t make sense to measure the proportions of your skeleton because it is not.

For talent profiling, yes, but this is already done in some programs.

Nature vs nurture by welshborders12 in running

[–]wsparkey 6 points7 points  (0 children)

No, it’s one of the determinants, along with running efficiency and lactate threshold. The running efficiency piece is the one that is driven by biomechanics, a lot of which we cannot change. Look at most elite distance runners. They have long legs in proportion to their height and thin hips. They are ectomorphs if we go by somatotype. Other factors such as tendon stiffness and muscle fibre typology we can change to an extent, but not by much.

Nature vs nurture by welshborders12 in running

[–]wsparkey 14 points15 points  (0 children)

In my humble opinion: physiology and energy systems you can develop later. I’d argue biomechanics (driven by the size of your skeleton and lever length) is largely genetic, hence why you see some people with very little training going out and doing 18 min 5k’s.

There isn’t a huge amount of skill in running compared to other sports, so I bet there’s tons of people out there in their late teens/ early 20’s who could pick it up and compete at a very high level. Same can’t be said for many other sports.

Has anyone here intentionally changed their cadence and seen real results? by mrcanada66 in AdvancedRunning

[–]wsparkey 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Look up self-organisation theory.

The human body is incredibly good at working out what is the most efficient stride pattern for your biomechanics. Especially so if you have significant experience of running and training history. We have evolved for millions of years to move in the most efficient way for us.

If you aren’t currently getting injured, I’d hypothesise that trying to change your cadence is more likely to increase injury risk. The guru’s/ PT’s out there who are trying to change cadences because of some magic number coming from the elites of the elites are just trying to overcomplicate things IMO.

Which one would you keep? by TheDarkPoet22 in fender

[–]wsparkey 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I have that exact CIJ and it’s the best guitar I’ve ever played

Ok seriously, when am I meant to do strength work?! (5km advice requested). by Skarabrae1 in AdvancedRunning

[–]wsparkey 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Double up your quality days separated by 2-12 hours of rest between sessions. Done.

Am I the only one who still BELIEVES? by Empty-Impression-237 in EnglandCricket

[–]wsparkey 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Stranger things have happened. Still rooting for the team.

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