Editor’s Note: Dr. Lon Kilgore has published a new article in the CrossFit Journal that discusses “the biased belief that university degrees are the gold standard for personal trainers.” CrossFit Lubbock owner David Barnett responded that he “learned more in 2 days at my CrossFit L1 about human movement than I did in 4 years at a tier 1 university getting a BS in Exercise and Sport Sciences.” We asked David to tell his story on the blog: My name […]

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An epidemic of epic proportions is killing Americans. Eighty million Americans are obese. Eighty-six percent of American health care spending goes to treating chronic diseases. These include “heart disease, stroke, cancer, diabetes, obesity, and arthritis.” In other words, they’re lifestyle-related diseases. Calculating the full death toll of lifestyle-related diseases is impossible. Alcohol kills 88,000 lives yearly. Tobacco kills more than 480,000 yearly. Obesity is estimated to kill 112,000 yearly. At least 680,000 Americans will die this year just from just obesity, alcohol and tobacco. The […]

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Michael Smith and Steven Devor have gotten away with fraud – again. Not only did the duo publish another fraudulent study in a different scientific Journal, but that Journal is refusing to retract or correct Smith and Devor’s fraud. For those new to our blog, Devor is a defendant in a lawsuit alleging scientific fraud. Smith worked under Devor as a PhD candidate on multiple studies. Neither the ACSM, nor Ohio State University, nor CSU Chico has acted on Smith and Devor’s fraud. ACSM retains Devor as a fellow, […]

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We are proud to present another guest post by Dr. Lon Kilgore. This is Part Four; check out Parts One, Two, and Three. Interrogative: What should fitness trainers teach relative to knee position during the Squat? Evidence: The NSCA Essentials of Strength Training & Conditioning, the NSCA Basics of Strength and Conditioning, the NSCA official Website, and the NSCA Position Paper: The Squat Exercise in Athletic Conditioning, all offer different instruction to trainers on teaching correct knee position in the squat. To wit; Instruction 1 […]

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We are proud to present another guest post by Dr. Lon Kilgore. This is Part Three; check out Parts One and Two. Interrogative: What should professional fitness trainers teach their trainees about stance when preparing to squat? Evidence: The NSCA Essentials of Strength Training & Conditioning, The NSCA Essentials of Personal Training, the NSCA Basics of Strength and Conditioning, the NSCA official Website, and the NSCA Position Paper: The Squat Exercise in Athletic Conditioning, all offer different instruction to trainers on what stance […]

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We are proud to present a second guest post by Dr. Lon Kilgore. This is Part Two; you can read Part One here. Interrogative: What should professional fitness trainers teach their trainees about back position during the squat? Evidence: The NSCA Essentials of Strength Training & Conditioning, The NSCA Essentials of Personal Training, the NSCA Basics of Strength and Conditioning, the NSCA official Website, and the NSCA Position Paper: The Squat Exercise in Athletic Conditioning, all offer different instruction to trainers on back […]

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We are proud to present this guest post by Dr. Lon Kilgore. Interrogative: How deep should professional fitness trainers teach their trainees to squat? Evidence: The NSCA Essentials of Strength Training & Conditioning, The NSCA Essentials of Personal Training, the NSCA Basics of Strength and Conditioning, the NSCA official Website, and the NSCA Position Paper: The Squat Exercise in Athletic Conditioning, all offer different instruction to trainers on how deep they should allow their clients to squat. To wit; Instruction […]

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Two weeks ago Jim Gourley published “The relationship between the U.S. military and the CrossFit program” to Tom Ricks’ “Best Defense” blog housed on ForeignPolicy.com. I sent Gourley and Ricks several emails to correct the article. When they failed to fix their errors, I wrote “Fiasco: Tom Ricks Casually Disregards the Truth about CrossFit.” Now, Ricks and Gourley’s coverage of CrossFit has gotten even worse. On December 22, the duo published “CrossFit: An Update.” What follows is a full rebuttal of its lines, […]

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