Quoted post said:Originally Posted by Froze [IMG]/img/forum/go_quote.gif[/IMG]
I haven't read all of OG's posts but I haven't noticed anything particularly annoying about his posts or I would have been getting into arguments with him too. But we all have opinions that we hold to be true though they may not be as true as we think. That's what these forums are all about, a lot of opinion and some facts. Then we read these opinions and see if we agree and accept or we disagree and reject. In some cases a person's opinion may be entirely wrong with no one agreeing, in these case the person has a choice to accept the common opinion of others and change their way of thinking, or reject it and do their own thing. We have that right. The sport of cycling has a lot of opinions, some are proven to be correct only later to be disproven, some have been correct for eons, and others are new that haven't stood the test of time, and still others there is no right or wrong just personality convictions.
Sometimes I play the devils advocate just to get a wider thought pattern, or a variety of responses. Nothing wrong with that because it stimulates deeper thinking.
What bugs me is when other people check other peoples grammar or spelling, I could care less about proper grammar or spelling as long as it's not text messaging shorthand because I can't read that stuff, but as long as I know what their saying then I don't care how well it's written, this isn't a college paper being graded. I know personally I bang out these responses as fast as I can due to time constraints so I don't want to be bothered with all the correct grammar and spelling so I know errors will fly out of what I write.
I don't care about grammar or spelling either... i don't make much effort at it myself.. i just hammer out my posts as fast as possible.. posting here is pretty damn low on my list of priorities..
but I'm guessing you haven't read his posts where he describes a workout... that he does regularly of course.. lol.. that is humanly impossible.. or where he argues against straight up facts and calculations.. everyone has opinions.. and we can discuss and argue about those.. but one needs to understand the difference between facts and opinion.. and let's face it.. the guy just straight up lies a lot..
i don't have a problem with much about what he's saying in terms of his philosophy and his suggested workouts and such in general.. yeah sure if you have the time it IS best to spend that time on the road.. but many here DON'T have the time and so a lot of the discussion is about efficient workouts and use of time.. every coach knows that one of the first things you get from your athlete is how much time do you have to devote to this... and to some spending twice as much time on the bike to eke out that last 5% or performance is not important and/or a possibility (there are some serious diminishing returns in term of training volume over about 15-20hr per week).. but, it's when he tries to defend his opinions with pseudo science and BS and straight up lying that I have a problem with (and I think many do as well).. one and one is still two... if someone comes on here and says it's three, they are going to get an earful...
again, i actually agree with a lot of his OPINION.. it's the BS, pseudo science, WRONG science and straight up lies that I have a problem with..
