Most Important Credentials for Posting Training Advice?

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Thanks, appreciate that.

You may have missed the sarcasm and nuances, but I appreciate the thoughts.

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@twojarslave incredible post

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@twojarslave thank you good work.

surprisingly this thread has been somewhat decent.

Ive been lucky- worked with some decent s&c types -
and some shitty ones for sure.
and I have 100% been sucked into some shit box training
for the most part- lifting in college was a box to check
3-4 hors a week and then back to my sport.
not something I cared about.
grind it out and back to the sport itself.

However
I learned the most while injured-
it was a good time to get stronger heal up
and work on some stuff I never cared to do.
clean up bad habits and get strong where I needed too.

I also learned all those tricks-
the drills that taught good habits
how to develop and produce power
build power endurance
advanced recovery techniques

being in an air cast on my ankle and stitches they where like
we are gonna work on being explosive and sure enough
bro rigged up a box for my leg
and I was doing snatches soon enough.

at 44 I fell at work and fucked my knee.

ACL PCL MCL meniscus gone.
two heads of the hamstring off the bone
calf off the bone quad many tears and some other damage.

two surgeries 5 months of crutches
and over 150 PT sessions later.

I really learned allot.
they where all about
TUT time under tension
tempo reps- 2 up 2 hold 4 down
eccentric reps.
recovery techniques
exercise pairing for hypertrophy
set and rep sequences that I had not used before

So while I like to geek out about anatomy and physiology and
russian methods of improving power force generation

I dont think anyone who has not gone through a proper rehab
really knows how to train or how to teach.

consistency of training over a body of time will kinda teach most people
alot.
just my 2c on who I wold take advice from

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On a open forum there should be a unwritten bare minimum criteria that guys should consider before they puke out advice.

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I think thatā€™s a benefit of longtime posters. You learn who you stop scrolling past to read their comments and who you just wiz by.

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I tend to stick to Beginners for advice because itā€™s low hanging fruit and prolly the only place Iā€™m remotely qualified. or Pharma when teenagers want to get on sauce

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What would this unwritten criteria consist of?

Personally I would only give advice consisting of my direct experience with say, a program Iā€™ve completed or some movement Iā€™ve hammered the utter shit out of.

I would never give physique advice because Iā€™ve never got myself down to sub 10% BF and I wouldnā€™t give strength training advice because my numbers are average at best, especially compared to folk on here.

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I would say, if you are unwilling to share evidence of your success, you shouldnā€™t speak up.

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I think the way you approach giving out advice would probably be a good starting point for other to follow.

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I think your ability to post advice is directly related to the complexity of the question as well as your experience. For example - 2 questions Iā€™ve seen recently on T nation:
Iā€™m 100% qualified to tell the 255lb lady to eat more than 1400 calories and not to jog.
Iā€™m not qualified at all to advise guys on carb loading and salt intake for a show.
These are the extremes of the forum.
But it highlights that there is a line at which everyone input both starts and stops being helpful.

The skill in real life is being able to spot when people are handing out shit advice.

On T nation I find this is not so much of a problem. Shit advice is call out. And you can spot the guys that genuinely know there stuff.

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People need to think for themselves. You shouldnā€™t blindly take advice from anyone. People are always biased and nobody knows everything.

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People should. But many donā€™t.

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Itā€™s because of this that I donā€™t support everyone thinking for themselves.

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