Exercise Science is not Science
Neither is computer science, political science, economics, nutritional science or anything else with the word “science” in the name. I tire of internet weight lifting dorks talking about “science based lifting.” None of these faggots know what they’re talking about, and the “science” they base their assertions on isn’t even pre-scientific. All of the “studies” they do are bullshit.
There are no meaningful control groups. There is no way of making everyone do the exercise the same way. There is no way of controlling what they put in their gobs afterwords. There is no way of controlling the vast genetic differences in the groups of exercisers. The closest anyone came in all of human history to turning this sort of thing into science was the communist countries, as they did control some of these things. Soviet exercise science has some interesting ideas, it really just represents another shade on coaching. One which is absurdly confounded with the drugs they were pumping into people, and the fact that they were dropping the non-drug-responders off the training programs to go back to glorious people’s nickel smelting plant.