Jump Into the NMF TIme Machine
September 1st 2007 11:33
True science is about contingency. I always know that I am talking to a pathetic scientific second-hander by how dogmatic he is. Real science is about the unending search for the truth, for the ever evanescent universal truth which might be hiding amidst the chaos of the world we actually experience. When you lock yourself into a position in the realm of science you are setting yourself up for the feel of the rug being pulled from under you. The science of fitness is no exception. Yet millions of people spend time on fitness activities that are long discredited and bristle if you tell them that they are wrong.
Lets jump in the NMF time machine and head for the 80s. Aerobics is creating millionaires just from the sale of Jennifer Beale leg warmers. Jane Fonda is funding her leftist boyfriend's political career with aerobics videos. Gyms are crawling with 30 something baby boomers, telling themselves that they are getting into shape in aerobics, while really fulling an atavistic need to dance. Much of the high tech equipment,which a moron could learn to use in five seconds after a sharp blow to the head, is not yet in existence. Lifting weights is way less user friendly. The treadmill is one speed and the exercise bike recently added a cyber element by featuring a workout timer. The stair stepper? I won't even go there.
The ruling nutritional idealogy of the 80s was that one should eat a preponderance of carbs and limit protein. Protein caused every informed MD to spew nonsense about kidney damage. Coke was a few years into the corn syrup thing and more and more food were being tentatively injected with the stuff. Dirk Pearson and Sandy Shaw published their kook fringe Life Extension,where they advocated supplements, if you could find them anywhere. Most MDs and nutritionists reflexively found these supplements to be a danger,primarily because they were not controlled by the government enforced pharmaceutical cartel. Etc Etc.
Now aerobics is an antiquated drag on the solvency of gyms and the aerobics floor is ringed by weights! For the dancers to use! The treadmills have levels and the stair stepper is an elliptical.Stupidity and narrow minded are virtually unchanged, though. Weight training has the seal of approval of MDs! Even for the 50 something how have considerably less boom than they did in their baby days in aerobics.
There are still people who tell you to eat a diet of carbs and control your portions of corn syrup laden boxed foods. The ignorant drive-by media continues to bruit about misunderstood studies that seem to show that supplements are worthless or even harmful. Women who have worn their joints out in aerobics now sit at home nurturing bulbous thighs and flab in every nook and cranny,since working with weights will make them look bulky. People stay out of the gym,because you have to stand in the middle of all those free weights and feel all intimidated by not knowing how to do all those weight movements.
Tying to reason with world about where we are in fitness thinking is what NMF is about and that is why it continues to try to dispel some myths and imbecility. Your servant, as always.
Lets jump in the NMF time machine and head for the 80s. Aerobics is creating millionaires just from the sale of Jennifer Beale leg warmers. Jane Fonda is funding her leftist boyfriend's political career with aerobics videos. Gyms are crawling with 30 something baby boomers, telling themselves that they are getting into shape in aerobics, while really fulling an atavistic need to dance. Much of the high tech equipment,which a moron could learn to use in five seconds after a sharp blow to the head, is not yet in existence. Lifting weights is way less user friendly. The treadmill is one speed and the exercise bike recently added a cyber element by featuring a workout timer. The stair stepper? I won't even go there.
The ruling nutritional idealogy of the 80s was that one should eat a preponderance of carbs and limit protein. Protein caused every informed MD to spew nonsense about kidney damage. Coke was a few years into the corn syrup thing and more and more food were being tentatively injected with the stuff. Dirk Pearson and Sandy Shaw published their kook fringe Life Extension,where they advocated supplements, if you could find them anywhere. Most MDs and nutritionists reflexively found these supplements to be a danger,primarily because they were not controlled by the government enforced pharmaceutical cartel. Etc Etc.
Now aerobics is an antiquated drag on the solvency of gyms and the aerobics floor is ringed by weights! For the dancers to use! The treadmills have levels and the stair stepper is an elliptical.Stupidity and narrow minded are virtually unchanged, though. Weight training has the seal of approval of MDs! Even for the 50 something how have considerably less boom than they did in their baby days in aerobics.
There are still people who tell you to eat a diet of carbs and control your portions of corn syrup laden boxed foods. The ignorant drive-by media continues to bruit about misunderstood studies that seem to show that supplements are worthless or even harmful. Women who have worn their joints out in aerobics now sit at home nurturing bulbous thighs and flab in every nook and cranny,since working with weights will make them look bulky. People stay out of the gym,because you have to stand in the middle of all those free weights and feel all intimidated by not knowing how to do all those weight movements.
Tying to reason with world about where we are in fitness thinking is what NMF is about and that is why it continues to try to dispel some myths and imbecility. Your servant, as always.
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