I try Very Very hard to follow you guys on these topics, because this sort of stuff interests me, but man, most of it just bounces around inside my skull before falling out the other side It came in. Do any of you guys have a couple good sorta "go-to" sources/sites you can share so I can learn more? I currently read a whole lot on T-Muscle, Performance Menu, Gymnastic Bodies, and APK, but yeah, you guys got any more starter places you can throw at me? I would appreciate it.
Jake,
it depends on the specific question and your needs of course, and others might recommend specific links to you with nicely summarized points that are easier to follow.
The current discussion might have just bounced inside your head as you said because we are still essentially debating, rather than just giving a consensus conclusion.
But on the other hand this might be a good exercise to follow because in the future you won't always be lucky in finding correct summaries and conclusions (as we all know there is also a lot of bad summaries that drew wrong conclusions etc), and occasionally you might need to keep in mind how some of those conclusions were drawn, and how some of them are more solidly supported by evidence than others, and how significant or insignificant some effects might be, even if in a quick summary they might both appear equally true or important.
As you saw, sometimes some more obscure references can actually turn out to be just guesses that were later accidentally cited as fact (like I showed for Phillips05).
And other times you will find two studies with results that might seem to say opposite conclusions, and yet they both happened and are repeatable. In those situations you can't just compare them as absolute one-line statements or assume you can choose whichever one statement you like best. Instead you have to be willing to look more carefully at the details and circumstances that explain why they are both correct within specific conditions (as I explained for a few papers).
So my recommendation for those types of situations where the answer is not so clear, short of reading up on physiology, biochemistry, cell biology etc is to actually first try to get a quick big picture on a topic with something like wikipedia, and then trying to find actual studies both in support AND against a particular possibility, and in comparing them you will be sure that you understand why you hold a certain view and have good reasons to believe it in terms of actual real tests (e.g., 10 people did it for 3 months in a row and ended up better than the 10 people that didn't).
