re: What happened to this board?

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running log thread. nothing but kindness and encouragement there.

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great thread.

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come to the running log thread. nothing but kindness and encouragement there

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It's so true. I find general fitness, strength, or nutrition threads turn into a shite show. It's a mentality when it comes to fitness, at least from that one side. You have a marathon thread where you have people mostly walking and people upvoting it. Then you have a "hardcore lifter's only thread" where if you don't do what they think is hardcore, you aren't worthy. Look at which one is successful and never really drops off the first page.

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The hardcore lifter thread was a parody thread btw

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It was? Damn, the first thread that really spoke to me.

I'm so hardcore, not only won't I wear wraps, I don't wear a belt, shoes or clothes.

Good job! I also have two. They are twin 3 yo.

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come to the running log thread. nothing but kindness and encouragement there.

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Very true. I miss you guys. My tendinitis is gone but baby is taking up all my time. Can't wait to get back.

I have taken such a deep dive into lipidology, apoptosis/autophogy, cell metabolism etc that I don't really enjoy the petty bickering that is either completely ignorant of the underlying science or completely besides the point of it all.

There are many ways to skin a cat, indeed. And there are many diffent cats to skin: public health, disease treatment and prevention, NAFLD and metabolic-disease epidemics, performance optimization, epigenetics on and on.

There's just too much science out there for me to get hung up in personal quibbles.

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There's just too much science out there for me to get hung up in personal quibbles.

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Metabolic theory of cancer has my eye these days. That and alzheimer's and dementia. I need to get that damn book - christmas ideas...

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It seems like if we avoid nutrition talk this board can have good discussion. Nutrition threads always devolve into pissing matches

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This one is not just on this board, the internet (and before internet - magazines) are loaded with conflicting thoughts that have swung pretty violently in the past half century. Imagine if there were a handful of studies out in the world that weakly suggest running causes throat cancer due to extended periods of heavy breathing?

At the root of it, nutrition is harder to study than most of the general public realizes. Most long-term lifestyle data comes from surveys riddled with self-reporting biases. This is made even worse by inflating headlines and making broad asertations based on data that was always (and continues to be) weak.

Some subsets of nutrition are a bit easier to study, such as short term weight loss, because you CAN have people volunteer to stay on a site under complete observiation or trust that people can keep good records for short periods of time. But even these studies have ethical limitations, you can't put people on diets that are outside the norm in these types of studies.

It's not hardcore if they've been smoothed by water. I lift only lava shortly after it's hardened. The heat and rough edges make it far more hardcore than sissy river rocks.

People tell me it might cut me, but I'm so hard, I cut the rock. It bleeds lava.

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(LOL at whoever thought the "hardcore lifters only thread" was serious)

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raises hand

I've gained a lot of weight over the last 3 years. I'm at my heaviest currently. My gain was due to stress and just piss poor eating habits, while working a job that has me in a cubicle all day. I have 2 sons with Autism at home that pretty much keep the stress at a max level most of the time.

I'm at 263lbs right now at 6 ft. So, yeah I need to get back to 200 eventually..I realize that may take a year or two to get there.