Bro-science is a term usually used by people who perform experiments to determine the best ways to eat and exercise.
It is usually used disparagingly to describe people who do something that doesn’t have a scientific backing.
The people will doing these unproven things will usually be doing them because “it works”.
It would usually be used to describe guys in a gym who do what the person in best shape there does because it seems to have worked for him.
The people that use this term are, rightly, into looking at the scientific bases behind why things work, attempting to prove and disprove various theories.
However, anyone that reads “Men’s Health” or “Muslim Fitness” will have noticed that ‘Bro-science’ is making a bit of a come-back nowadays, and, in our opinion, rightly so.
Whilst we’re all for working towards getting the very best information, and having a solid scientific understanding behind why things work, and a body of evidence showing proof, we don’t believe in throwing the baby out with a bath water.
If something works, it works.
Up until a few years ago it was generally accepted by the smartest minds in the industry that weight-gain and weight-loss was down to calories-in vs. calories-out and dietary fat consumption.
However, during all this time there were plenty of guys (and girls) in the gym who insisted that wasn’t the case.
Who, in their own experience and their own training and resistance had found numerous variables that play a bigger role in weight-gain and weight-loss than calories and dietary fats.
Now, the consensus is swinging towards those guys being right.
A calorie is no longer just a calorie.
Fat is not demonized by the smartest minds in the industry.
The consensus is moving towards refined carbohydrates (particularity) sugar, estrogen, sleep, stress, and other factors being the main causes of fat gain.
These guys were right.
At RISE we attempt to combine the very best of both worlds.
We do look to try and find the very best evidence, the highest quality scientific research and proof.
But we also combine this with what we find ‘just works’.
And we definitely concentrate on what our experience tells us works best, regardless of what anyone else says.
The science may not fully catch up with some of the things we recommend, but we know from our experience of having got hundreds, no, thousands of people to follow our “L.E.A.N. system”, that it works.
So, in summary, bro-science we don’t think is a bad thing.
If something works for you, it works!
Do it!
And at the same time we try to find out “why”.
