James Haycraft wrote:
devashish_paul wrote:
desert dude wrote:
Seriously? you're refusing to go educate yourself out of spite? No wonder many of the smartest minds in the coaching & physiology world tend to be on here less & less. People, just like you I might add, want to be spoon fed everything, they refuse to go look it up or do any research. Their N=1 experience trumps research. They try to tell people who have done numerous research studies on a topic they are wrong. People pretty much refuse to admit that dissenting views from their own could be correct.
Believe what you want, but the research has pretty much buried the barefoot/minimalist trends. Ironically sales of minimalist shoes are down quarter over quarter for the last year to 1.5 years. Maybe this is the masses getting ahead of the research.
Since you obviously fall in the I need to be spoon fed camp as I mentioned above maybe this will change your mind and point out the flaws in your thinking. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/...m=minimalist+running
Brian, as I stated earlier in this thread, just telling people "go search pub med" is not a very useful exercise in that if everyone went to the "library" we have no community constructive discussion which entirely defeats the point of a forum and sharing of data (as well as personal experiences) from which 100's or 1000's of eyeballs may benefit and learn (or at least avoid going down a misguided path). Thanks for posting the link above. I will gladly go read it. Lots of people are too busy in their day to day life to head to the "library" and do research from the ground up and read pubmed. Yes, you and others may see it as spoon feeding, but that spoon feeding is helpful for the sport community, so that thanks for taking the extra step.
I would disagree. The best education we receive is when we figure it out for ourselves.
Not that I disagree, but there's a massive difference between figuring it out for yourself, and understanding it with some guidance from people who have the relevant information.
You don't show up for an Econ101 class in college and have the professor tell you "ok, class. Of course the derivatives market is responsible for the economic collapse. I don't need to show you my reasoning, all the info is out there. I shouldn't have to spoon feed it to you."
Sure, somebody will find the studies and understand them, but you've lost a majority of the students along the way. Why do that?
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