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Relative to other sports, that is.

Like you don't get a bunch of football bros or climbing bros getting into intense debate about the optimal training methodology to throw a better pitch or send a route. People aren't over on the soccer subreddit asking what the scientific research says about how much kicking volume is optimal for a beginner.

But you do get people who are into growing their muscles doing exactly this. The science based fitness community is its own beast now.

I know that people do study this stuff somewhere, but fitness is sort of unique in the sense that even the general layperson is out there trying to keep up with the research on sets and rep schemes and following "science based" training.