So I'm reading a lot of sports nutrition and training books, which have cheesy covers and read like pop psychology tracts. Except for the sciency studies they discuss in passing. Lou Schuler's The New Rules of Lifting for Women, in particular, has pages of footnoted studies that explain why women should lift weights hard and heavy like dudes.
It's interesting reading, and makes one wonder how much stronger and more capable women would be without all that advice to tone and shape instead of pumping iron. Some athletes are showing us, and more are in the pipeline.
The nutrition study data is interesting too, as it debunks the fad diet bandwagons our friends, coworkers, celebrity role models, and media keep trying to get us to jump onto, mostly. What I found most eye-opening was simply how many studies had been done, as well as what people made of the results in a piecemeal fashion vs. taking the data in more holistically and sorting it out. Matt Fitzgerald takes a good stab at this in Racing Weight. Plus he has some good recipes.
I feel like I should be able to get a science fiction story idea out of it, but no luck yet...
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