Big Fitness Complaint

One of the biggest complaints about fitness information is that people find a lot of it to be contradictory.

Now I can't blame people for wanting simple answers that everyone agrees upon...

But tell me, in what industry does everyone give you the same answers from all the experts, agreeing on every subject?

Politics? - Nope.

Real estate? - Nope. Houses are better. No, condos are better. No, renting is better because all real estate is overpriced.

Investing? - Nope. Put your money in stocks, the market always goes up. No, invest in real estate. No, hide it under your mattress - all the bankers are crooks!

The Legal System? - Yeah, right.

Haircuts? - Nope. Long, short, colored, bleached, curled, straightened?

Medical? - They are called second opinions for a reason.

Childcare?

Movie Reviews?

Sports analyses?

Education?

Grade 2 Math? - Yes! Finally, we have found an industry where everyone agrees on the same solution to every problem.

My point (and I do indeed have one...):

Fitness advice is like any other set of advice from any other field. It is based on facts and biased interpretations of said facts.

Sometimes the experts will be right, sometimes wrong. But if they are good, and leave as much as their bias out of the decision as possible and go solely based on physiology and on the individual's physical traits, then the expert will be right more than they are wrong.

Until the perfect world exists where all fitness experts agree, you have to think critically about the information you are given, just as you would in any aspect of life.

CB