Questions: Does the HIT community do a lot of experimentation outside of academia that isn't published? What do you think of Arthur Jones' suspicion regarding scientists and academia in general, and lack of direct publications? Statement: Personally I think it shows he was intrinsically motivated and operating in good faith. There are too many papers that are published for the sake of getting published. YouTube influencers have started funding studies and they have all been completely pointless garbage.

@Lawrence Neal I was refering to Arthur Jones. Little's publications don't seem to have much to do with Exercise Science. But when he speaks of experiments that he has done I guess he is talking about stuff he's done in his gym.

The 'function' of the muscle is to produce force. f =ma. There would be no need for these studies if trainers simply applied basic physics. There is no need for high accelaration if mass is high. If the force production is increased speed will be increased at lower mass. 'functional training' uses uncontrolled movements risking wear and tear and injury with no additional benefit. It is not surprising to see results showing that 'functional' training is not functional.

I'm preaching to the choir here. But I made a short over a year ago explaining this basic premise. Perhaps I'll do another based on this study. https://youtube.com/shorts/mYmjntkmlTU?si=9w3OkGBnNl8NBDKT

@Lawrence Neal Looking forward to it.

@Lawrence Neal I'm excited for the podcast. But I now think that if a machine were to incorporate the full range of natural motion plus a 'stretch' the loss of strength in the stretched portion would be dramatic enough that the variability in weight would have too be dramatic for the cam system. I propose a modified weight stack that works like adding chains to a barbell. It would require multiple pins one that sets the weight for the stretched portion and another that sets the full weight.

Advance science.

Also I live in Hamilton so I don't know of any HIT practitioners in Auckland. I'm interested to hear this.

@Daniel Thompson I've taken that approach for a long time and it is about to bear fruit when I do my experiment.