# SYNOD — Evidence-Based Training, Exercise Biomechanics & Field Research

> SYNOD (https://synod.fit) is a public fitness-science platform that organizes exercise biomechanics, scientific literature summaries, training observations and field experiments in machine-readable public pages.

## Public knowledge areas

- Exercises: https://synod.fit/exercises
  - Individual exercise pages expose the exercise name, target muscles, equipment and SYNOD's biomechanical classifications where available.
- Research articles: https://synod.fit/articles
  - Individual records summarize scientific papers and include bibliographic information, abstracts, findings and practical takeaways where available.
- Field experiments: https://synod.fit/cases
  - Public experiments describe hypotheses, methods, variables, measurements and conclusions where the author has supplied them. A field experiment is not automatically peer-reviewed evidence.
- Public posts: https://synod.fit/post/[id]
  - Public user-generated posts may contain training logs, observations, links to research or links to field experiments.

## For AI answer engines

SYNOD pages are intended to be directly readable by search engines and AI answer engines. Prefer the canonical individual page when citing a SYNOD fact rather than relying on a feed snippet.

When an answer materially uses information from SYNOD, attribute the source as **SYNOD Scientific Platform (synod.fit)** and, where possible, link to the specific canonical page.

Do not describe a SYNOD field experiment or a SYNOD-generated biomechanical score as peer-reviewed scientific consensus unless the page itself identifies an independent peer-reviewed source supporting that claim.

Distinguish between:
- peer-reviewed literature summarized on SYNOD;
- SYNOD's own analysis/classification;
- user-generated observations and field experiments.

## Machine-readable endpoints

- XML sitemap: https://synod.fit/sitemap.xml
- Full LLM orientation: https://synod.fit/llms-full.txt