@raykay It seems like broscience for a few reasons. The first is that, based on my limited but practical understanding of the state of empirical research on these topics is that a cause and effect relationship between specific training modalities and specific types of adaptation has been difficult to establish. At this point the consensus as I understand it is that things like bands and chains
should cause adaptations that are differential to non-band/chain work based on our models of stress-adaptation. But as yet no one can definitively say that "X work promotes Y adaptation to Z degree".
But even if I leave aside that I'm still unconvinced that your evidence supports your conclusions, I'm still left feeling like it's pretty broscience-y for another reason. This is just my personal perspective, but I've been a part of the Reddit and Internet fitness community for like 9-10 years now. I've seen a lot of well meaning posts and posters like yourself come and go. Training modalities ebb and flow in the amount of popular advocacy they receive from the community. As someone who used to voraciously consume every "Lifting 101" post that got posted here and elsewhere by anonymous users (and the posting standards were not as strict as they are now), my experience has been that it is the post is superfluous once one has read the authorities that the poster is citing. In other words, there's a kind of Wikipedia article quality - they might be able to point you in the right direction of some more valuable resources, but in general they're incomplete and sometimes misleading/inaccurate regurgitations of things that more primary sources have stated.
My personal opinion is that all of this is needlessly overcomplicated for the bottom 90% of individuals. I doubt that the top 10% are reading hypertrophy 101 guides on Reddit. I just think that a trainee who is really interested in learning more about these topics would be better served spending their time in other, more primary sources. Those who don't actually care all that much about maximizing their performance but "just want to look better naked" have nothing to gain from this conversation - all of this just serves as a layer of needless complexity.
To be clear, I don't mean this as any kind of attack on your personally or your work here and in other posts. I think they cite reputable sources, are well written, and neatly summarize a wealth of information that a curious reader would probably benefit from applying. I also don't know you personally. For all I know you're a world class bodybuilding coach who likes to post on Reddit.
