Is this under the same umbrella as terms like "Bromance"??
"Strive for excellence, exceed yourself, love your friends, speak the truth, practice fidelity and honor your father and mother. These principles will help you master yourself, make you strong, give you hope and put you on the path to greatness."
- Joe Weider
I tried looking up the term "Broscience) on Wikipedia.....nothing found.
"Strive for excellence, exceed yourself, love your friends, speak the truth, practice fidelity and honor your father and mother. These principles will help you master yourself, make you strong, give you hope and put you on the path to greatness."
- Joe Weider
My short time and experience on the bodybuilding.com forum has led me to believe that "broscience" is training and supp advice based on popular word-of-mouth, whatever is popular at the time, etc.. Not necessarily proven, lab based, certifiable info, so to say.
2011 North American Strongman Women's Masters National Champion
NSCA Certified Personal Trainer www.coloradostrongman.com
1. broscience 60 up, 10 down
Word of mouth knowledge passed off as fact, primarily among bodybuilders + weightlifters. Generally spouted most by guys who have used loads of steroids and are huge, have no idea what is happening to their bodies and then share that same cluelessness with others who make the false assumption that their experience means that they have knowledge.
Watch who you listen to. Seriously. They are everywhere, sharing their knowledge - B5150.
"I never had any hairloss when I pinned the testosterone in my butt cheeks, but when I tried pinning in my bicep, I went bald" is some broscience you could find in a forum, or a gym
2. BroScience 18 up, 3 down
Anecdotal evidence presented as fact by unqualified, yet confident indvidulas in the body building community.
Rampent within liftring forums and message boards, the information is usualy based on hearsay with little to no scientific evidence to support the claims made by the individual.
Examples can be limited to a single fram of mind: It worked for me, so it works the same way for everyone!
There is actually a forum that is called broscience dot com that caters to these claims.
An example of Broscience is as follows:
If you want to cut fat and get muscle definition, do high reps, low weight
3. Broscience 33 up, 1 down
Broscience is the predominant brand of reasoning in bodybuilding circles where the anecdotal reports of jacked dudes are considered more credible than scientific research.
Broscience in action:
"Bro, you gotta slam 40-60 grams of waxy maize plus 20 grams of BCAA within 7 seconds of finishing your last set of squat rack curls. Otherwise, you'll go straight catabolic."
Im not to sure what it means either. but when im on bb.com and in the teenage section they use it. They give THIER opinion on diet and training and they call that broscience. and i really dont take teenagers advice cause there not experienced enough to give advice.
"This place, this darkness, theres no better place to be."-Wrath
My short time and experience on the bodybuilding.com forum has led me to believe that "broscience" is training and supp advice based on popular word-of-mouth, whatever is popular at the time, etc.. Not necessarily proven, lab based, certifiable info, so to say.
Right... That's one definition I saw as well. But another is where you take legit science and then stretch it as far as ya can and then apply it to a supp (laddered science).... So I'm always confused.
1. broscience 60 up, 10 down
Word of mouth knowledge passed off as fact, primarily among bodybuilders + weightlifters. Generally spouted most by guys who have used loads of steroids and are huge, have no idea what is happening to their bodies and then share that same cluelessness with others who make the false assumption that their experience means that they have knowledge.
Watch who you listen to. Seriously. They are everywhere, sharing their knowledge - B5150.
"I never had any hairloss when I pinned the testosterone in my butt cheeks, but when I tried pinning in my bicep, I went bald" is some broscience you could find in a forum, or a gym
2. BroScience 18 up, 3 down
Anecdotal evidence presented as fact by unqualified, yet confident indvidulas in the body building community.
Rampent within liftring forums and message boards, the information is usualy based on hearsay with little to no scientific evidence to support the claims made by the individual.
Examples can be limited to a single fram of mind: It worked for me, so it works the same way for everyone!
There is actually a forum that is called broscience dot com that caters to these claims.
An example of Broscience is as follows:
If you want to cut fat and get muscle definition, do high reps, low weight
3. Broscience 33 up, 1 down
Broscience is the predominant brand of reasoning in bodybuilding circles where the anecdotal reports of jacked dudes are considered more credible than scientific research.
Broscience in action:
"Bro, you gotta slam 40-60 grams of waxy maize plus 20 grams of BCAA within 7 seconds of finishing your last set of squat rack curls. Otherwise, you'll go straight catabolic."
1. Brotelligence
The standard "knowledge" of the common forum bodybuilder. Usually connotating the idiocy and anti-science dogma of bodybuilders who trust their "good bro".
The brotelligence at elite fitness is astounding.
I guess when trying to cut through all the clutter, the real question is, which is more important? Experience or science? As I see it, there are four kinds of science in the supp industry....
- Real science
- Broscience (experience)
- Faux science (laddered science)
- No science
I guess when trying to cut through all the clutter, the real question is, which is more important? Experience or science? As I see it, there are four kinds of science in the supp industry....
- Real science
- Broscience (experience)
- Faux science (laddered science)
- No science
Right... That's one definition I saw as well. But another is where you take legit science and then stretch it as far as ya can and then apply it to a supp (laddered science).... So I'm always confused.
From what I've seen, myself included, people on bb or pl forums don't have a vast knowledge of science, legit or otherwise, so application of limited knowledge to the supplement world still seems like negligible advice. Still a form of "I have a friend who knew a guy who has a cousin who once trained with Louie Simmons that said if you do Good Mornings on Tuesdays you'll get jacked." So who knows... lol. Just my very humble two cents.
2011 North American Strongman Women's Masters National Champion
NSCA Certified Personal Trainer www.coloradostrongman.com
I guess when trying to cut through all the clutter, the real question is, which is more important? Experience or science? As I see it, there are four kinds of science in the supp industry....
- Real science
- Broscience (experience)
- Faux science (laddered science)
- No science