Your Dance Style Is as Unique as Your Fingerprint, the Myth of Muscle Confusion, and How Animals Get Color Without Pigment

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Warner Bros. Discovery

Self-improvement, Science, Astronomy, Education

4.6 • 935 Ratings

🗓️ 24 February 2020

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Learn about whether the exercise trend of “muscle confusion” really works; how structural colors give animals their vibrant hues; and why the way you dance is just as unique as your fingerprint.

The Myth of Muscle Confusion by Kelsey Donk

Hutchinson, A. (2020, January 23). How to Make Your Strength Routine Evidence-Based. Outside Online; Outside Magazine. https://www.outsideonline.com/2408204/strength-training-research-2020
How ‘Muscle Confusion’ Might Help Your Workouts. (2020, January 8). The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/08/well/move/muscle-confusion-exercise-workouts-fitness.html
Baz-Valle, E., Schoenfeld, B. J., Torres-Unda, J., Santos-Concejero, J., & Balsalobre-Fernández, C. (2019, December 27). The effects of exercise variation in muscle thickness, maximal strength and motivation in resistance trained men. PLOS ONE, 14(12), e0226989. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0226989

How Animals Get Color Without Pigment by Grant Currin

Color from Structure. (2013, January 31). The Scientist Magazine®; The Scientist Magazine. https://www.the-scientist.com/cover-story/color-from-structure-39860
Hummingbirds’ rainbow colors come from pancake-shaped structures in their feathers. (2020, January 10). ScienceDaily. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/01/200110110909.htm
Rae Ellen Bichell. (2014, November 12). How Animals Hacked The Rainbow And Got Stumped On Blue. NPR.org. https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2014/11/12/347736896/how-animals-hacked-the-rainbow-and-got-stumped-on-blue
Sun, J., Bharat Bhushan, & Tong, J. (2013, May 10). Structural coloration in nature. ResearchGate; RSC Advances. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/255772388_Structural_coloration_in_nature

Your Dance Style Is as Unique as Your Fingerprint by Steffie Drucker

The way you dance is unique, and computers can tell it’s you. (2020, January 17). ScienceDaily. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/01/200117104740.htm
Dance to your own drum: Identification of musical genre and individual dancer from motion capture using machine learning. (2020, January 13). Journal of New Music Research. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09298215.2020.1711778

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0:00.0	Hi, you're about to get smarter in just a few minutes with Curiosity Daily from Curiosity.com.
0:05.9	I'm Cody Goff.
0:06.9	And I'm Ashley Hamer.
0:07.9	Today you learn about whether the exercise trend of muscle confusion really works, how
0:12.3	animals get color without pigment,
0:14.4	and why the way you dance is just as unique as your fingerprint.
0:17.8	But it satisfies some curiosity.
0:19.8	Something called muscle confusion
0:21.5	has been floating around exercise classes and gyms lately.
0:25.0	It might sound like some sort of medical problem, but it's not.
0:28.2	In fact, it's supposed to be a good thing.
0:30.5	According to this fitness trend, confusing your muscles by changing up your workouts is more effective than doing the same routine over and over again.
0:38.0	But is that real? Does muscle confusion actually work?
0:42.0	First, let's sort through the logic behind muscle. Does muscle confusion actually work?
0:42.6	First, let's sort through the logic behind muscle confusion.
0:46.2	The claim is that mixing up your workout routine
0:48.6	will keep your muscles from settling into a rut
0:50.9	or hitting a plateau. The shifting workouts are supposed to keep your muscles on their
0:55.2	toes, so to speak, so they'll keep adapting. Confused muscles get bigger and stronger than
1:00.0	muscles in a routine, the story goes.
1:02.6	But there hasn't been a ton of science to back that up,
1:05.7	until now.
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