resistance_first
TL2 Regular · Belfast, UK
Strength coach. Programming for people in a large calorie deficit is its own problem.
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A site rotation scheme that is easy enough to actually follow Replied, post #52 · Practice › Administration · 30 Apr 2026 · 32 likes Building on post #50 rather than restating it. If you have to inject at a different time of day than usual, that is a much smaller perturbation than it feels for a…
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Why the timeline is on the right and not the left — what changed since Replied, post #2 · Meta › Site feedback · 1 Mar 2026 · 31 likes Timeline is a question about a distribution, not about a value, and treating it as a value is what produces the confident wrong answers.
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Waist circumference technique and its repeatability Started this topic · Outcomes › Progress reports · 16 Sep 2025 · 31 likes Waist circumference technique and its repeatability — setting out what I have, and where I think it stops being reliable. I have spent a fortnight trying to pin waist…
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The topic list is dense — is that deliberate? Replied, post #13 · Meta › Site feedback · 11 Aug 2024 · 31 likes Two people in this thread mean different things by topic list and are disagreeing about the definition while believing they are disagreeing about the facts. Worth…
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Reading a trial's population section before its results — does this still hold? Replied, post #50 · Evidence › Trials · 29 Apr 2025 · 29 likes Funding and trial conduct should be stated and are a weak predictor of anything on their own. Design quality is the stronger signal and it is checkable. Scoping that to…
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Blinding yourself: practical methods and their limits Replied, post #30 · Research Methods › N-of-1 designs · 31 May 2026 · 27 likes Order effects matter. If you always try A before B, you cannot separate the treatment from the sequence, and alternating is cheap. Adding the caveat now so it does not…
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