• ATQ@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Y’all… Unless you’re an Olympian, it’s not your shoes that are keeping you from hitting your time goals. 99.9% of all of us would be better off focusing on our sleep, diet, and nailing our volume and workouts. But if you think that dropping $250 on “super shoes” is gonna give you an extra second a mile, we’ll, then, the placebo effect is a real effect.

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      1 year ago

      My favorite example of this is in cycling. Buying a 15k carbon fiber bike, to save 5 pounds over a 3k aluminum bike when they’re overweight. They could spend 10k on a personal trainer for a year and be way ahead.

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      1 year ago

      Yeah… This is a very blatant case of marketing being pushed as “facts” by a magazine paid to advertise.

      Consume.It’s very cool and it has no effects on kids working in Bangladesh or the climate. Believe us, Nike said so