Estimating Energy Requirements Of Female Athletes & Why Men Are Shit At It

The following was a suggestion made in a discussion on a certain forum the other day: "A lot of men do not understand how many calories women need because men in the fitness industry can obviously eat a lot more and be fine." The context of course was more like "how...

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Does Movement Screening Predict & Prevent Injury? Masterpost

Credit to Robert Palka who collated all of these links for a recent facebook post. Could we please stop wasting time and money on the FMS, and move on? I also thought "it worked!" when using it. A preliminary list of links to research on the effectiveness of the Functional Movement Screen for prediction and prevention of injury. Utility of...

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You Can't Out Train A Bad Diet? Garbage.

We really need to end the notion that athletic condition is associated with food avoidance. Nothing could be further from the truth. And this particular trope as per the title of the piece... it is illogical on a variety of levels. To begin with; What constitutes a "bad"...

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Dave's Greatest Hits On Facebook

Some good stuff tends to get lost after a while on facebook, so I thought I'd list a bunch of my favourite posts here for future reference. Generally these will be bullshit busting type posts, because those are always a lot of fun. This is a work in progress... I'll add some...

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My Q&A regarding the "anti-sugar" pro-orthorexia movement.

Here's a Q&A I did a little while back with Shanna from the Body Acceptance Establishment about the current "anti-sugar" fad, and why it is so problematic. The general public is getting a lot of advice from a whole range of sources, often with conflicting information, about...

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