A lot of training advice comes from what bodybuilders call bro science . There is no official definition of what bro science is, but if there were, I think it’d probably go something like this: “Bro, have you tried this workout method? The guy over there told me about it, and he’s huge, so it must be true!”

Simply put, bro science is largely based on anecdotal evidence; someone did it, felt like it worked, and then started telling other people about it.

I’ve been a personal trainer for 35 years , and while I’ve seen plenty of bro science in action, the biggest breakthroughs usually come when training lines up with actual research.

A lot of fitness experts are very quick to dismiss bro science because most of it hasn’t been studied. However, that doesn’t mean that what bodybuilders do

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