Finding Accurate and Reliable Fitness Advice.

[Tommy T]

There's a lot of bro science out there, where do you find your sources of fitness advice? (weight lifting, cardio, nutrition etc)

I've recently read a book called "Bigger, Learner, Stronger" by Michael Matthews. It was a great read to be fair, but I have a habit of questioning any type of fitness advice due to my errors in thinking in the past.

Do you have any sites / books to recommended?

[GodEmperor]

Bodybuilding.com forums is a good place for information. There are trolls but there are some really good posts too.

[Tommy T]

Bodybuilding.com forums is a good place for information. There are trolls but there are some really good posts too.

I find that forum extremely hit and miss. The exercise ratings are really good though. I base a lot of my weight lifting exercises around some of them.

(Bench Press, Deadlift, Squats, Military Press etc)

[Deleted]

Honestly, right now the science and advice on fitness is moving on a daily scale, so what we might tell you to listen to today, might be inferior or bad tomorrow.

Just do stuff, and if it looks like it works and doesn't hurt, you probably well off

[Deleted]

No pain no gain.

Prolonged pain when not training, or prolonged joint pain then

[Spectral]

Depends what you're doing. I'm primarily into running and cycling, and any advice that doesn't amount to "run more" is suspect. Everything else nibbles around the edges, volume is king.

[anyaka21]

There's a lot of bro science out there, where do you find your sources of fitness advice? (weight lifting, cardio, nutrition etc)

I've recently read a book called "Bigger, Learner, Stronger" by Michael Matthews. It was a great read to be fair, but I have a habit of questioning any type of fitness advice due to my errors in thinking in the past.

Do you have any sites / books to recommended?

Probably depends on what you want to accomplish. The 2 best books I've seen are

http://www.amazon.com/Strength-Train...s+bodybuilding
http://www.amazon.com/You-Are-Your-O...weight+workout

basically no bullshit, just the basics about what exercises does what
I find the home gym to be great for the days you just don't want to make the trek to the gym and just want to workout.

outside of that, if there is something specific or a sport you want to train for, there are specific books to help you train the muscles most important to that sport. IE basketball and volleyball fitness books teach a lot of jump training and core workouts.

[Reg]

I much prefer to learn my own body than to take advice from online forums. It's a guess and test method, but it gets the job done.

[Deleted]

I can highly recommend suppversity.blogspot.com, daily articles based on the newest published research and science. Asides from that one page, it is hard to recommend any other website that has much reliable information without 'broscience'. However, there are certain personalities in the industry to watch for. Layne Norton, Alan Aragon, Stu Phillips, Børge Fagerli and also a few others i cannot remember on top of my head are relative active in publishing new relevant content.

I tend to dislike communities/forums for information. While many of them has knowledgeable persons, the majority often tend to be uninformed and still spread misinformation. It oftens turns to people listening to the biggest guy in the thread, that is probrably roided, and think his rules apply for themselfes.

[Acelius]

Ask a trainer at your local gym and get a program made. Get him to walk you through all the excercises and then you're golden.

[Tommy T]

Ask a trainer at your local gym and get a program made. Get him to walk you through all the excercises and then you're golden.

Yeah that's the problem. Hardly any of these personal trainers know what they're talking about. I've had some AWFUL advice from some of them.

I've got a decent understanding of fitness and nutrition on a whole so I'm going to take Reg's advice and just so what suits me.

[Shik Valentine]

Layne Norton, Eric Helms, Alan Aragon & Lyle McDonald. Layne & Eric have youtube channels discussing training/nutrition & are bodybuilding/powerlifting coaches. Alan & Lyle have websites discussing nutrition.

https://www.youtube.com/user/biolayne

https://www.youtube.com/user/Team3DMJ

http://alanaragon.com/

http://www.bodyrecomposition.com/

Other mentions. Mike Tuscherer & Bryce Lewis train athletes in powerlifting.

http://www.reactivetrainingsystems.com/

http://thestrengthathlete.com/

[Ineluki]

http://www.davedraper.com/index.html Hes been around a LONG time and has some good info, his books are quite inspirational as well(he does have some religious stuff in them, I just tend to gloss over those references). Hes a really cool guy who loves what he does, and a decent writer to boot.