Originally Posted by
Wattsup
Well, I could squeak in an extra hour if I needed to. Regarding the "art", in many cases, what is now science was just an art ....before it became a science. It may be that those who claim that their instruction is an "art", just aren't familiar with the best science.
Or they are, but they just don't publish it as research.
How many world champion coaches are published? Though some of them have freely given their insights on public forums or the press. I have/had pages of discussions and articles saved from coaches of 2:03 marathoners, world champion time trialists and road racers, tour de france winners, up and coming pro tour riders, etc., etc. But I'm pretty sure none of them are published in peer-reviewed journals.
You can employ the scientific process quite easily, and people that have done that over years with dozens, if not hundreds of athletes, generally have a pretty good sense of what works and what doesn't. You can apply that to nearly any profession: book smart versus application smart.