[quote]tedro wrote:
Professor X wrote:
tedro wrote:
I’m not diagnosing anything, and I’m not even trying to compare this to a doctor’s diagnosis. That has little to do with the topic. I simply said I don’t think it’s a good idea to aspire to gain that much weight at such a young age.
I also don’t think it’s a good idea to specialize in weightlifting as a teenager at the expense of other sports. This is all based on my personal experience and it just so happens that there is indeed some science to back it up.
Oh, so all of this falls under, “stuff I think I know about based on purely nonscientific personal observation with no biology/medical educational background”. OK.
Gotcha.
Isn’t that how the scientific method begins, observation? Now I could have conducted my own research after making such observations, or I could simply study the resources available, and lo and behold, there is scientific evidence to back up my observations, so at this point I am sticking to my conclusions.
To further this, there is nothing wrong with anecdotal evidence, and it must be considered. When science and anecdotal evidence don’t match up, something must be reinvestigated. Many times the anecdotes leave out important variables, many times the scientific theory needs revising.
Even other times, there are social and psychological factors that also must be examined. At this point, there is strong evidence suggesting excessive weight gain in adolescence leads to overweight adults, and my experiences don’t contradict this in any way. You have shown nothing to contradict any of this.
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…aside from ignoring, or being completely blind to, the fact that we are discussing a regularly training individual who is NOT sedentary and is NOT simply gaining weight because they are lazy and eat too much. You are comparing apples and oranges here, which makes no sense at all especially when trying to throw general info about body fat at ANYONE who gains any weight at all.
That would be like saying athletes who gain weight for football (which happens all over the country beginning in the teenaged years) are all at risk of being obese adults simply because you can’t see the difference between TRAINED and UNtrained.
No one needs the spread of half assed wrong information slammed together to come up with whatever conclusion you see fit.