Sports Medicine | 2019
Comment on “Biological Background of Block Periodized Endurance Training: A Review”
Abstract
In his book ‘The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark’, eminent astronomer and philosopher Carl Sagan advocates for the maintenance of healthy levels of scientific scepticism, and promotes the necessity of unbiased critical thinking. Within this text, Sagan also proposes his, politely labelled, ‘Baloney Detection Kit’, a collection of guidelines protecting us from the pitfalls habitually confounding our interpretations of reality [1]. Prominent amongst these pitfalls are: