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Repeated-sprint training in hypoxia

Skip the hypoxic mask. Sprint hard in normal air.

Strength · Practice · members

Intermittent hypoxic exposure / intermittent hypoxic trai…

Don't put a hypoxia generator in your house. Breathe it monitored or not at all.

Vitality · Practice · members

Normobaric hypoxic tents and simulated live-high-train-low

Don't buy the altitude tent. Tested against a fake one, it did nothing.

Strength · Practice · members

Functional Movement Screen as an injury-prediction tool

Don't buy corrective exercise off a movement screen score.

Strength · Procedure · members

Intermittent pneumatic compression boots

Don't buy recovery boots. They fix how sore you feel, not how you perform.

Strength · Procedure · members

Osteopathic manipulative treatment

Don't buy a course of osteopathy for your back. Against a fake, the pain didn't move.

Strength · Procedure · members

Instrument-assisted soft tissue mobilization

Skip the scraping tool. The bruises are the only thing it reliably leaves.

Strength · Procedure · members

Cognitive test batteries & the transfer problem

Stop paying for brain training. It buys a better score on the game, nothing else.

Focus · Practice · members

Nocebo avoidance

Stop reading side-effect forums before your first dose.

Calm · Practice · members

Set and setting

Don't dose in a bad week. Pick the room and the sober mate before the day.

Calm · Psychedelic · members

Dextromethorphan

Don't drink cough syrup to fix your head. Especially not on an SSRI.

Calm · Psychedelic · members

Nitrous oxide

Leave the balloons. The gas strips your B12 and the nerve damage doesn't come back.

Calm · Psychedelic · members