anyone ever been a test subject for a fitness program? For example on all those p90x and Insanity infomercials there are people who signed up to test the program. I think it would be a very intresting experience, and i could watch myself on TV every morning at 3:30 AM on Spike haha.
[quote]decoffeen wrote:
anyone ever been a test subject for a fitness program? For example on all those p90x and Insanity infomercials there are people who signed up to test the program. I think it would be a very intresting experience, and i could watch myself on TV every morning at 3:30 AM on Spike haha.[/quote]
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I haven’t been a test subject for a fitness program.
I have a buddy works at the fitness research center at KU, part of his job is that he is a participant in fitness research studies and gets paid (separately from his normal paycheck) for it. Last year he took part in a 9 month whey protein study, where he got free high quality whey, and paid to work out twice a day. He said the only bad thing about it, is that sometimes the researchers want you to do things at weird times, i.e work out at 3am with 3 hours sleep to test the effects on the body. Unfortunately you have to be going to KU in order to work there, and take part in studies.
[quote]barbarianlifter wrote:
I have a buddy works at the fitness research center at KU, part of his job is that he is a participant in fitness research studies and gets paid (separately from his normal paycheck) for it. Last year he took part in a 9 month whey protein study, where he got free high quality whey, and paid to work out twice a day. He said the only bad thing about it, is that sometimes the researchers want you to do things at weird times, i.e work out at 3am with 3 hours sleep to test the effects on the body. Unfortunately you have to be going to KU in order to work there, and take part in studies.[/quote]
yeah see that would be clutch. i would love to be a part of something like that. gotta do some research
An interesting point (sorta side tracking) that I think I read in a Poliquin book was how fitness companies can distort things so easily, aka often doing research on untrained college kids. Stick a kid on whey, ask him to work out, and pay him - of COURSE he’s going to rocket in change.
This may play into your question - I doubt many studies will be looking for a guy in pretty good shape, you won’t make too great of a transformation as fast as they would like (at least thats how they think)
I was a test subject for a friends fitness program they developed through the ‘Health and Fitness Promotion’ course at the college. People who graduate the 2 year course go on to be personal trainers.
Anyways I would do the workout, fill out the questionnaire for each workout and leave the school to go do my regular workout which was never affected by the pansy shit the college has students coming up with.
No early infomercials for me.
Yes, I am my own test subject everyday.
[quote]on edge wrote:
Yes, I am my own test subject everyday.[/quote]
very well put i like it!
Ive seen ads on craigslist, 5k to diet and exercise with a person trainer for 16 weeks and be on a paid program for some gay ab roller or shit like a shake weight.I decided against it. lol.