Originally Posted by
wens
This is a lot of why coaching tends to be in front of sports science, it's difficult to design good studies, most of them use whatever random college kids they can recruit, and it's tough to normalize different types of training stimulus to each other.
Yeah, that's what sucks about a lot of collegiate studies. The subjects are generally untrained, but healthy 18-24 year olds.
You are right that coaches probably have better insights into what works for trained athletes.