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Structural Balance Theory: Does your Butt Care about your Biceps?

  • Humans often equate discomfort with benefit, assuming something unpleasant must be good for them.
  • Common fitness beliefs, like 'no pain no gain' from bodybuilders, embrace this mentality with restrictive diets and rigorous routines.
  • Structural balance theory in fitness, which relates different muscle groups' development, remains largely unexamined scientifically despite being widely accepted.
  • The article plans to analyze structural balance theory using scientific methods from multiple perspectives.
  • Details and further discussion on this topic can be found in Alan Aragon's Research Review from February/March 2014.

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