Mark, you have misled us all

[Tor]

Here this whole time I thought squatting would increase bone density, but this new article in the New York Times straightened me out: we should be briskly walking and jumping up and down.

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/11/phys-ed-the-best-exercises-for-healthy-bones/?em

I like how they dismiss the antiquated notion that lifting weights makes your bones stronger by citing a study where women "who did resistance-style exercise training (not heavy weight lifting)" did not show increased bone density. I shudder to think of what 'resistance-style exercise training' might entail.

Other than the fact that this article is clearly a worthless piece of shit it does have a couple of points of interest, mainly that lots of long distance running and cycling actually makes your bones weaker.

Go figure.

Tor

[Mark Rippetoe]

Yes, it is good that the NYT will soon be OOB.

[PatrickH]

I read that NYT article, and in typical slippery NYT fashion they managed to trash weight training by referring to a study that used "resistance training", whatever the hell that is, and which stated (more than once, I believe), that none of the resistance training whose effects on bone density were so minimal involved the use of heavy weights. Given what they no doubt consider "heavy" weights, it is hardly a surprise that doing "resistance" training with whatever pernicious little contraptions they had their subjects use, didn't have positive effects on bone density. Replicate a zero-g environment in the gym...and those are the kinds of results you ought to expect to get.

[Mark Rippetoe]

The NYT is predictably shitty, but the real problem is of course the studies they refer to. If you design a study that cannot produce a bone density adaptation, it should be no surprise when it doesn't. But they just don't understand the limitations of their study protocols.

[Mr.City]

A textbook example of SB. I mean, it hit nearly every criteria.

[renegade_01]

Hey don't throw that newspaper away... it can be used as birdcage liner.

I can't wait to watch all these lying pieces of shit go out of business.

[mrflibble]

Rip has misled us in more ways than one!

I present: "the Best Lower Body Exercise" ... "Frog Squats"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wd-TnHQ062Y

Some highlights:

"...This one surpasses all of them. It's a finishing move"

"It puts basically the best of both worlds together. It does a leg extension and a squat at one time"

"It's kind of an isolation compound movement"

"These are a lot tougher than they look!"

[matclone]

Newspapers often print fluff and garbage articles about fitness (often veiled advertisements for some product). Here's a recent one from the Denver Post, in which a guy claims to have dropped from 300 to 148 pounds in less than two years, and placed in a bodybuilding contest (and see his flat abs. Ooh!). There's no independent verification of any information in the article. Apparently, the writer just wrote what this couple told her. Other favorite bits: the guy was "awed" by seeing his wife on stage at a BB contest (he was surprised at how she looks in a bikini?), and their claim to drink more than a gallon of water per day (the last time I drank that much water was for a colonoscopy, and I was sick, , totally sick of water).

http://www.denverpost.com/search/ci_13740394 (http://www.denverpost.com/search/ci_13740394)