We last left off with some of the best information we have gotten of late on common sense and its approach to your fitness and nutrition program. Now I am going to let you in on that secret I was talking about.

Leigh Peele-Alan here is what I want to elaborate on and it brings me to an even more important point of what you are releasing as an amazing helpful service for others.

I want to elaborate on the need to ask “Why?”.

Recently in some discussions with Coach Hale we were discussing the importance of being a skeptic and how it is a good thing, a positive one, not a negative thing like it’s claimed. Really all it entails is just asking why.

Now I am in on the secret that you are taking giving the information as to “why” on a whole new level with the creation of a new service you are offering of amazing and in depth information. Can you share with the readers what this service is and WHY it’s important to utilize such a service especially right now?

Alan Aragon-Let me first tell the readers flat-out that I approached you to do this interview because I want to blatantly promote my new “baby” that’s been in development for some time now. I got really creative with the title — Alan Aragon’s Research Review. Bear with me on the background before I get into some of the details. This is by far my most ambitious project ever, and it will be exactly that for the rest of my career. What made me put this together? Dissatisfaction with the general state of ignorance, half-understanding, and perpetuation of misinformation in fitness circles. Are people dying off in droves because of this? No, but I see a tremendous amount of confusion resulting in a lot of wasted time, money, and potential. Seeing this on a daily basis is what drove me to create this review and make it available to the fitness pros as well as lay folks who take fitness and science very seriously.

In the beginning, everything the ‘experts’ hold to be true in our industry should be based on scientific research, rather than opinion and hearsay. While science is the best tool we have for figuring out the way nature works, the scientific research isn’t perfect. Oftentimes it’s riddled with shortfalls that render it either useless or tentative at best. So, rather than simply relay the research data, my goal is to take things a step further and dissect its strengths, weaknesses, and applicability in a subscription-based online journal. I’ll look at the current, recent, and not-so-recent research on a number of different topics, as well as comment on fitness information in the popular media.

In addition to critically analyzing the literature, I’ll periodically inject my observations in private practice as a degree of cross-checking what’s seen in the lab with what’s seen in the field. I honestly can’t verbalize how excited I am about this project. It gives me the opportunity to be an ongoing facilitator of the acquisition of knowledge - real knowledge, not Bro-pinion. Those who would rather be spoon-fed simplistic, generalized sound-bites of info will probably hate it. People who see the value of understanding the facts (or lack of) behind the current recommendations and getting to the nitty-gritty of the so-called what we base our beliefs on will instantly love it. Keep in mind that although the sub-topics will evolve and grow as I get readers’ feedback, each issue will open with a full-length, fully referenced article examining whatever topic grabs me and compels me to air out its details. Rather than hype it up any further (which is not a talent of mine), I’ll provide a sample issue for folks to decide for themselves.

Leigh Peele-Alan, not that you haven’t, but I really want to break this down for readers here what this really means. This isn’t just some run of the meal monthly subscription program where you get an interview here and a half hearted “new” swiss ball movement. This is the actual science and study behind what we are all doing or should be doing, broken down into laymen detail (for those of you that don’t know some of these studies can cost 20-40 bucks easy).

As far as topics are concerned what are we going to see a lot of being discussed, obviously nutrition, but any physiology thrown in there at all? In short, can you give us a little preview of what being a subscriber can bring us knowledge of?

Alan Aragon-Overall, the goal is to provide a unique science & practice-based, multi-topic, commercial-free, in-depth, ongoing resource of information. For now, the format of each issue will be as follows:

Editor’s Cut — A comprehensive review article that will attempt to cover the range of relevant details of the given topic. It will be fully referenced, and will include a summary and application section.

Nutrition & Exercise Research — Just what the title denotes. Some research looks at nutrition or exercise individually, and some of it is combined. Study strengths, limitations, and applications of the research released in the current month will be examined.

Supplementation Research — Same format as above, but I’ll look at all the wonderful powders, pills, & potions on the market.

Less Recent Gems — Just because research is more than a month old doesn’t make it less important. In fact, a big part of the research review is to re-capture and re-examine the tremendous body of work over the past few decades. It’s this collective body of research that shapes our current practices, so this section of the review is just as important as the sections covering the late-breaking stuff.

In The Lay Press — I’ll choose a layperson-directed online or print article about some aspect of fitness that I find interesting or provocative, and critically evaluate it.

Future sections will include letters to the editor, debates, invited reviews, as well as other ideas that are bound to crop up.

Leigh Peele- *Disclosure* I want to just write for those reading that my enthusiasm is not marketing hype. I really am this excited about what Alan is doing and am signing on the moment it’s available to the public. Yes, I am that much of a nerd and, yeah, you should be too. So with that being said…

Alan, this is really an incredible release you are going to be offering. Now I know for myself, even with my gleaming and light-blinding brilliance …

*crickets chirping*…

that a study is no picnic in the park to read sometimes. How easy is this information going to be for the average joe to understand? Can anyone make use of these?

Alan Aragon-I appreciate your enthusiasm about the journal. Yes, studies can be complex and confusing for the uninitiated. Also, not everyone’s learning style clicks with the format of scientific studies. This is especially the case with primary research, so my objective is to make the primary research digestible. Also, I believe that anything is learnable, it just requires having a genuine interest in the subject.

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Now I have just received my issue of AARR and guess what you can get a free sample yourself but don’t think I am giving you the link yet without my final words.

You will be able to see for yourself the quality of Alan’s work here, which is without contest. He also put together something that is far beyond it’s worth. I want to answer a question that didn’t get asked myself.

Why does someone need this?

If you are a fitness professional you better not think twice. This is a way to get up to date and back catalog information on the actual science and fact of what your job is. If you are going to take networking and podcasting so seriously, you better start taking the science of what you do seriously as well.

If you are a fitness enthusiast, it’s time to end hero worship. It’s time to understand that it doesn’t take a degree or a certification to have this knowledge. This may be a bit of a scary journey at first, this stuff isn’t the new Harry Potter release, but reading this information wont just open your eyes to if you need a PWO shake or not. It will open your eyes to all the methods of research for our society. Don’t be afraid to investigate what you are given.

Okay, now you can have the link. I better hear from Alan sales are through the roof. For what it’s worth there is no affiliate for this, and I am just another customer, I just got a receipt for purchase to prove it.

http://alanaragon.com/researchreview