Dr. Layne Norton

When I see a study with a headline is something I don't agree with, or is contrary to what I think the evidence says.

When I go in and read the methods and I read the results and,

99.9% of the time I go, oh, I see why they found what they found, right?

And you have to remember, conclusions from studies are just an author's opinion.

And you kind of alluded to this earlier, but people ask me, they kind of accuse me of like being in an ivory tower.

Like, well, do you really need a PhD to read research studies?

And I'm like, no, I guess you could figure it out.

But I tell you what, you might as well go get a PhD by the time you had enough experience to actually do it well.

Because...

It is very difficult if you don't have the experience to understand these studies and the practical limitations of them as well.

And I'll give you one more example.

There was a study done looking at resistance training.

It was in a certain circuit, and I knew the researcher, right?

And he's giving this presentation.

And it was a certain, like, order of exercises.

And I said, hey, Chad, why did you guys do them in that order?

Is there something special about that?

And he goes, oh, no, it was a 10 by 10 room.

It was the only way we could get two people in at the same time by doing that order.

So you realize like scientific studies are so limited.