Mr. Obvious wrote:
Jon Orange wrote:What drug improves biomechanical efficiency? There is no such drug. It's a skill. Maybe you can't see the wood for the trees because you are unable to question the 'PED' concept?
As you would say, "It's just a theory"
Jon,
I have no idea how you can be so reductionist.
Take this analogy: You have a car and you want the car to go farther on a tank of gas. You can do this by increasing the car's efficiency (more miles/gallon). You can also do this by installing a larger gas tank. You keep yelling that it is a skill and that you can only get faster through greater efficiency. Either way works.
Sorry, but you are mythologizing. Our tank of glycogen is plenty big enough.
I think the analogy you are searching for is the bigger engine analogy. That too is mythology. It comes from, the very word you used, reductionism, where people explain their concept fitness improvements without reference to biomechanical efficiency. Almost everyone does this.
Why doesn't the human body produce more RBCs as a fitness improvement? You can't explain that one because of your reductionist model.
But don't accuse me of reductionism. That is just ignorance on your part.