You know I feel like I should back up why I and others feel like this is article was mostly bs instead of just making fun of it..and maybe I will later when I'm not feeling so lazy. But I did want to say what I think is a potential reason people choose to write stuff like this.

I've talked before about the "short term over-reaction" and "long-term under-reaction" to trends in the strength and conditioning industry. Of course they are hardly ever new things..they are old things resurfacing and it happens over and over again in a cycle. A great example would be 5x5 training, lol.

So this article starts out with "One of the latest rages in the fitness industry is the plank exercise".

What he is implying is that there has been an over-reaction to planks that may be similar to, say, the over-reaction to bosu balls or unsable surface training.

Could there be an over-reaction to something like planks? Sure. Are they the answer to everything and all your back problems etc? Of course not. Does that mean they are worthless and you just stubbornly cling to situps and such? NO.

Just because there are over-reactions to things doesn't mean they may be one of the most usefull things you can do. YOU can choose to react reasonably and thoughtfully to things and use them as part of a coherent philosophy. You can recognize their value, if it exists for you, without "over-reacting".

But to decry over-reacting and instead prematurely go right to the under-reacting phase is falling into a trap and it does not involve critical thinking at all!

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If you act sanctimonious I will just list out your logical fallacies until you get pissed off and spew blasphemous remarks.