Blogilates Has FAILED?!
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- Опубліковано 21 лип 2024
- Blogilates (Cassey Ho) has just completed her 90 day journey in which she was trying to regain lost muscle and rebuild her relationship with herself and training. In her concluding blog post, Cassey states how she's unhappy with the results and feels as if she's failed this challenge that she set for herself. In this video, I analyse the journey and give my thoughts on what could've been done differently/better!
Let me know your thoughts in the comments below :)
0:00 Introduction
2:46 6.3lbs of Muscle in 30 Days?!
4:27 Online Negativity
8:24 Importance of Sleep
9:26 Unrealistic Expectations
11:04 Food and Meal Plans
11:46 Motivation
12:21 The Results (DEXA Scan)
15:56 Cassey's Problematic Approach
18:31 What Could She Have Done Differently/Better?
21:26 Conclusion
22:30 Comment Question of the Week
23:15 Outro
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How do you feel about Cassey's 90-day journey?
Clapped, harmful to her, and to her audience.
I feel like she designed this for her followers and not for herself. The blunt truth is that many, many women (her primary audience) love dieting and fitness challenges. Many bounce from one to the other. But yet, they also want to relate to failure. So it's suspicious that she created something very much designed to fail when she should know better. Hell, *I* know better and I'm not even a certified PT (yet). My take is that she designed it to fail so that her audience can respond "awww. Me too!!". And then she can start another, better designed challenge that has a reasonable chance of success. It is also possible this stuff is all being designed by her sponsors/management. I'm pretty cynical. I do hope that if anyone followed her did get at least something positive out of it.
As you mentioned, I think Cassey had done soooooo much work during her journey and I think she should be proud. However, I think she may need to think that sometimes mental and physical changes may not be able to get "fixed" in such a short time. Isn't it a bit too much to expect yourselves to change behaviors or thought patterns in such a short time? I am stressed out by just thinking about Cassey's pressure to change for her audience. I am very concerned about all the fitness workouts that highlight a specific time frame and specific results. I hope Cassey will be able to feel liberated one day to just train for the enjoyment and have a balanced lifestyle.
She's a sale person. I knew this as an observer who would occasionally get recommended her shorts by youtube. All of her videos sound like it's part of a sales pitch.
Very cool
If her intent was to be the strongest she has ever been.... than why didn't she post lifting stats? If strength was a primary goal and measurement of success than why is actual strength measurements never discussed?
Good point
Excellent point
An excellent question!
Exactly, training for strength (ie powerlifting), muscle hypertrophy, and prepping for a bikini show are three different things that require different programs. The fact that she just threw these words together and thinks that she can do all three at the same time in a short period of time means that she doesn’t understand the basics and that her journey was just mumbo jumbo.
Was abt to say this... by my sister she said thst she posts alot abt how she looked.. than how strong she's been getting..
Edit : My sister does her pilates workout and thats about it.. I have warned her not to follow her diet advice...
Why is no one talking about how she immediately started selling a Protein powder as soon as she started a ‘ muscle building program ‘. I want to believe that she’s deluded but I can’t anymore, she clearly knows exactly what she’s doing.
Also, right before this 90 day journey, she had just recently started selling weights and putting out weighted routines…
@@spa-peggymeatballs4861 the weights came out last year. She had a challenge and contest to celebrate it. I entered it but the winners all had wowza before and afters when mine was mostly mental and habit building.
Right!! How her diehard fans don't feel doopt is sad. she lied just to sell something that is deceptive and dirty. She could have sold the protein without this entire routine of playing the victim and overcoming the quote 'haters'.
Came here to say exactly the same! It was all a sales promotion!
@@spa-peggymeatballs4861 to be fair, she's had weighted routines for years. I subscribed to her mailing list back when it was necessary to get access to her monthly workout calendars on time, and I definitely remember the beginners calendar having a weighted workout, she just told people to use water bottles if they didn't have dumbbells. This would have been maybe 5 years ago? Or more, I've been playing with the idea of doing UA-cam workouts for a while 😅
Cassey's biggest downfall is that she is no longer doing things for herself. Everything she does is to prove the naysayers wrong. What this has done is simply put her in this position of if she fails, it's the "negativity online that's affected her." Legit, that is a reason she lists in her blog why month 3 felt like a failure to her. She does take accountability for *some* things but at the end of the day to put it very very crudely ...she smells her own farts and blames the dog. She didn't fail that's the amusing part. And, to be honest I think she's very aware of this. She's been grasping for validation, she wants to feel like a victorious victim because if she comes out that way it will frame all those haters as mean bullies, not concerned experts who have valid criticisms. And her followers eat it up. They'll follow her plans and wonder why they can't look like Cassey. They wonder why certain things didn't work and they'll twist themselves into dangerous eating disorders. And because Cassey has made the valid criticism appear more like judgmental shouting none of them will seek better sources. Cassey is the one and only source.
Cassey is genuinely deep into her own potion. Unlike the deceptive trash that lives out there, Cassey is genuine. That's what makes this so sad.
Out of curiosity how did y’all read the last two blog posts. I’ve been silently reading them and having my own opinions but never commenting ever. Then she put them behind a password wall and I don’t know how to get around it.
@Viewing hmm. I follow r/gymsnark and haven’t come across anything this week. I’ll go digging for it. Thanks for the tip.
I used to follow her and I'm done now. I know a lot more about fitness and nutrition and I'm not going to accuse her of lying. But it's kind of crazy how uninformed she is. I think shes a good person, but this looks so much like a relapse into disordered eating again.
@@ryanguerrero2327 password is zeropointfour. It’s behind a password, but she just sends it to anyone subscribed to her email list. Basically a way for her to harvest emails.
Yeah I never think of her as someone trying to con the audience, she's just hugely ignorant in a lot of things. Also there's nothing wrong if your aesthetic is a slim yoga practitioner, not everyone need to become strong just because.
I’ve said this before, but I’m gonna say it again. I got into fitness almost two years back through Blogilates. I did no research. I just began. I was too overwhelmed (just had a baby) and unhappy to care WHICH program I started, I simply started. Fast forward to a couple months ago. Cassie posted her newest 90 plan. I had been toying with weights for a couple months and really wanted to dive in deeper. I had full intentions of following her workout plan. Then I stumbled across your video on her and my life really did change. I began to actually research and find information. Fast forward several months. My body has made HUGE changes. My knees don’t hurt anymore. I’m using heavier and heavier weights. I’m thankful for Blogilates for bringing me into fitness, and I’m thankful to be out of Blogilates now.
On one hand she seems genuine, but on another hand there are too many products lining up with this journey for me to not give it a side eye.
What was the reason your knees were hurting?
@@MsKoik not sure. I was doing at least an hour of Blogilates videos a day, toward the end sometimes two because it just wasn’t doing it for me anymore. My knees hurt every day. I’d really just accepted that it was going to be part of my life from there on out. Slowly as I started progressing w/ weights they’ve completely stopped. I have a guess that it was from doing way too much cardio/improper form.
@@spa-peggymeatballs4861 ok, thanks for answering. My knees have been a bit sore lately (nothing alarming, just an extra awareness when I get up and sit down). I've only just started weighted exercises and squats, so that's probably why. It disappears during warm-ups.
@@MsKoik hopefully it will get better for you. Squats were almost impossible for me to do when I was doing Blogilates. Now I’m squatting 50+ lbs and have no pain at all. I found it bizarre. I’d assumed that my knees would get worse the heavier I went. Maybe it’s because I’m really working on my form though. I’ve found that making sure my knees are going outward and my weight isn’t in my toes have helped a lot. There might be more/better advice from someone more experienced though!
did you make your own programme?
It took me nine months to grow 9’7 lbs and it had arms and legs. 😂
Lmao😂
Best comment
Lol luv it
Legit haha!
Cassie has exhibited patterns of disordered eating in the past. Her excessive amount of "muscle" gain in the first 30 days is more likely the replenishment of muscle glycogen than it is muscle. Muscle glycogen registers as muscle mass on a Dexa scan.... and if she was depleted due to under eating or being low carb, this rebound would be misleading.
Really? Thats very interesting, do you have some more info on that?
@@melanie4659 there are also several other research papers but they autodownloaded when I try to copy the URL. Look up muscle glycogen shows up as muscle mass on DXA. (I attached a handful of articles/research papers but now I don't see the links.) Maybe youtube has an issue with attaching URLs?
Excellent insight!
This is what happened to me when I stopped restricting myself and I started my reverse diet. The scale has gone up a lot but I haven’t gained that much fat. It must be from the muscle glycogen being replenished!
Cassie won’t talk about it anymore because of the “criticism” (aka genuine concern) but she has been diagnosed with and dealt with anorexia before. It seems like instead of actually dealing with her body dysmorphia she’s swapped anorexia with orthorexia
I used to really love Cassey and her workouts, but increasingly over the past couple years she's started to change. She seems to be fixated on her way of doing things and refuses to listen to any critique. The point about how much muscle she can gain in a couple months being the main thing.
I do think she still has an unhealthy relationship to food + exercise despite what she says. She's obsessed with doing things for external validation and 'proving' something to other people, this blog post being exhibit A.
What really bothers me is the constant stubborn and dismissive attitude. She will delete comments questioning her exercises or the possible misinformation, write everything off as hate, block people who dare to question her and NEVER address any of it. It's disappointing to see someone I used to really like become like this.
If you point it out to her she will bash you
I really love her but this is not ok
I've followed Cassie for about 6 years at this point, and I described this recent behavior as her villain arc the other day. When I first found her, I liked that she was focused on doing challenging workouts. I liked that she was fit but not obsessed with being thin. It helped me focus on working out for health instead of aesthetics, especially since aesthetic goals are not always achievable or maintainable. Now she's done a 180 and is telling her followers - mostly young women, who are more likely than any other group to develop an eating disorder - to fixate on the numbers and the visual results.
I used to follow Cassie. I stopped because she really was making me feel uncomfortable. Her workouts and meals really had a weird vibe, too diet culture for me. I have a history of disordered eating and following her was not helping me stay away from the dark places.
Same 💯
Yes, same for me. Her first 90 day journey was the straw that broke the camel's back for me. I don't know whether it's because her content has been getting progressively more "toxic" OR if it's always been like this and we caught on later because at the time the entire fitness section of the internet was very bad and diet-cultury, whereas now there are more people sharing a healthier approach and perspective
I feel exactly the same. Well said ❤️
I used to follow her as well, and really enjoyed her workouts BUT she became a commercial person and in every video she would mention her products (here's a huge water bottle, here's yoga set, there' a mat, and tomorrow I'm launching new line in Target and ..... so on and so forth) it became VERY annoying.... and I feel like all she does NOW is make new merch and no more new workouts.... so yeah
Yeah I used to enjoy her videos but I feel like she's developed this really fake persona over time??? Like idk, so much of her stuff and the way she says it makes me uncomfortable and I can't really explain it bc its not something specific, more of a vibe? But I really hate how disingenuous she's become.
I think her significant “lean tissue” gain is easily explained by a buildup of glycogen for 3 reasons: 1) She was likely eating a low carb diet before the journey, so her glycogen store was low at start and it increased when she increased her carb intake for her journey. 2) Her new workout volume was very high, so her body responded by storing extra glycogen. 3) She built maybe 1 to 2 pounds of muscle, which added more space to store glycogen. All three contributed to a significant increase in “lean tissue.” If she reverts back to a low carb diet, she will lose some “lean tissue” because her glycogen will be reduced, similar to the weight loss experienced by people who switch to a low carb/keto diet. I think her results in month 1 is mostly her body’s adaptation to her new workout program and diet. Results from month 2 and 3 are more realistic for what actual muscle gain would look like.
Her program was so unsustainable that basically she couldn’t even follow it herself in month 3, hence hardly any change in month 3.
Also, someone in another video mentioned that after her first 90-day journey, she released a 90-day journal. Now, after this journey to gain muscle, she releases protein powders.... It's just kind of shady to me. Oh and she has 90 day meal plans. Nothing seems genuine anymore.
She did so much cardio during her muscle building journey - it is obvious to me that she is very scared of gaining weight. The thought of gaining weight more than 2 months is just not acceptable for her, and I think she needs to work so hard on her body image.
Unlike a lot of fitness influencers who straight up lie and invent nonsense on the spot, I think she genuinely believes the bs she sells.
I thought this too but her casually starting to sell her own protein powder makes me think she’s a lot more calculated that she leads on.
Which might be even worse…
@@taytayqueen7024 Someone in the comments mentioned the fact that she is probably having to resort to other streams of income because there is so much more competition on UA-cam than there used to be in her specific lane. I think that should be taken into consideration
I wouldn't be shocked!
I have a long history of bulimia and anorexia nervosa and it's quite obvious to me that this is disordered behaviour despite her intentions. I feel that she has a responsibility to her audience and she may be oblivious to the damage she's doing to herself and others. Especially when it was supposed to be a self love journey, the fact she could be dragging people with body disordered pasts down that road is frustrating me immensely.
These are things that have helped me keep this a positive journey, hopefully they're helpful to anyone else with a history of eating disorders.
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1. Keep your deficits small. I don't recommend having large deficits or ever getting to the point you feel hungry. Remembering how accomplished i felt from ignoring that feeling in the past, i don't give my mind the opportunity to revisit that.
2. I do not document, detail, record stats measurements or meal plan. OCD and eating disorders go hand in hand and documenting everything is getting to cosy with that demon. I would advise you to track macros and calories if in a deficit that's all.
3. Don't measure, weigh or scan yourself on a regular basis. While someone without a history with eating disorders or body dysmorphia can probably do these things without fear, if you find yourself placing your worth in a number which is going to fluctuate throw them out. I would advise taking a photo when you begin and every two to three months. (Your own reflection in the mirror can lie to you if you have body dysmorphia i find photos to be much more reliable then my reflection)
4. Set attainable goals. I knew id be harder on myself then most, i struggle with perfectionism. Don't strive to do the unacheivable like cassie has done. Set realistic goals preferably around strength and PRs.
5. I don't eliminate any food groups or foods that i enjoy. Even in a deficit. No foods are bad, no foods are scary. This is something we learn in recovery and you don't want to reintroduce that concept.
6. It's a journey that can not be rushed, don't set time limits or even challenges. Building muscle and recomposition is the opposite journey to restriction and starvation. It's about nourishing and fueling your body to change in a healthy way which takes time it is not a race and it's much more rewarding.
7. Personally i wouldn't go anywhere near bikini comps, im keeping myself a little less lean then i would like because i feel getting very lean would be to much of a temptation for me.
I think part of building a healthy relationship with your body and food is acknowledging that you have some weaknesses and working around them. Just like a recovered drug addict shouldn't try to casually use drugs because others can, Im not cutting down to 1200 calories or pushing myself to the extreme because others can.
8. Keep to content creators who keep it real
I'm proud of you, Brittany
@@TFNL Thank you ☺️☺️ and thank you for always keeping it real on your channel. It helps so many of us!
Cassey got me interested in exercising, but after that blog, I need to take a break from her. I constantly struggle with loving my body and it was hard to read her blog. It makes me so sad because it seems like no one around her is helping her.
I re-read her blogs from the beginning of her 90 journey and she kept saying, "I'm doing this for ME." "It's not about the numbers. Numbers are just data, they don't define you." This last blog is contradicts those statements. She kept saying, "I proved all the naysayers wrong." So she was never doing it for HER, she was doing it to prove her worth to the internet.
She also said, "I didn't want to keep eating how I was because even though I was gaining muscle, I wasn't getting visibly leaner." That statement really triggered me. She knew she was getting stronger, but it didn't matter because she didn't LOOK stronger.
I'm so glad I found your channel. We need more people like you! You've taught me that I'm worth more than the looks of my body.❤️
She looked pretty strong, I think the problem she ran into is that getting bigger (even if it's muscle) is a trigger for her. You're right that she says one thing, and everything she says and does contradicts it; I think she knows it's how she SHOULD feel (working out for herself, not letting herself obsess over numbers or body fat percentage) but she's not quite there yet.
I get the feeling that being a fitness influencer at a time where body positivity is gaining ground, she hasn't let herself deal with her body image issues because a)the only way she would know how to do that is publically but b)she expects/would like to already be there, not work her way up. So instead we get empty words that are belied by every decision she makes.
Plus, at the risk of tipping into "armchair therapist" territory, she has mentionned several times (usually before she talks about a product she's launching, like the starting point to her success story), that her parents were very dismissive of dreams and interests (becoming a designer and her interest for pilates). In one of her animated shorts (ua-cam.com/video/QAkftrmFygc/v-deo.html) she mentionned that her dad once told her that she had 3 career options in life: "a doctor, a lawyer or a failure". That's not really the type of environment that helps you deal with criticism in a healthy, nuanced manner.
i think after her last 90 day journey when she really became quite thin, seeing herself get bigger was a trigger for her and probably made it seem like she had undone the other one.
@@MsKoik wow her dad is such a stereotype lmao
@@ironstarks exactly what I thought. She looked really thin and she really loved it. For getting muscle you must eat a lot more and you will look a lot bulkier for a while until you can cut back again to get lean again. I don’t think she enjoyed seeing her self looking bulky.
So I just read her blogpost… first of all, with her workout schedule (running 5x a week I think) and eating only 1800kcals there’s absolutely no way she couldve gained 10lbs in 3 months. As you said, if not even a heavily enhanced bodybuilder can do it, she definitely can’t.
I was sad to read about her goals. She says that she wants to gain muscles but then wanted to cut after just two months because she wanted to be leaner? Unfortunately her body image is so negative and she just cannot live with the thought of being even a little bit heavier for a while, so her brain told her to cut down IMMEDIATELY.
The whole thing was sad to read on one hand, but I am also sure she isn’t just innocent. She knows what she’s doing business wise. It’s a scam.
But she needs therapy. Her blog read like my diary when I was one of my lowest points when it comes to food issues / body image. Its scary.
What's the password for it? I want to read it.
This was the biggest marketing ploy ever, imo. All of a sudden she’s selling the “special supplements” she’s been taking throughout this journey. The timing leaves very little room for grace. She’s a swindler and she’s good at it too because any time someone calls out her techniques she calls it an “attack”. It’s very icky.
Check the latest video :)
It was very hard for me to read her lasted blog post. I feel like the fact that she treated this whole journey like she was competing in a competition took away the whole meaning of this journey (which was to build muscle and reclaim her past). I hope she gets the help she needs because the mindset she’s been in lately isn’t healthy.
It's sad. Three years ago I did one of Cassey's summer programs that were available on UA-cam. By the end of it unfortunately I felt *so awful* about myself and was severely undereating. I'm very thankful to have found this channel and a group of viewers who put out positive and educational information.
I’ve done one too, and although I’m not blaming Cassie it really worsened my ED (an*rexia). I remember her yelling stuff about slim thighs and summer bodies and to do it for the flat stomach or abs and just hating myself for not having a thigh gap.
The thing i question the most is... did she really get hate, or was ot just constructive criticism and concern? She's not thick skined enough for internet. I think she needs to take a break.
Also all these challenges she does feel like those quick fixes that dont work. Muscle building is a process, that can take years, not 90 days.
I'm sure some people did take things too far with her, but she and others like her have been known to dismiss legitimate criticism as hate, and never actually addressed it.
I agree with you
Women, women of color especially, get a lot of unnecessary hate so I'm positive there was plenty of it along with legitimate criticism. I've seen a lot of "criticism" as thinly veiled hate/bashing towards her before. But I've seen plenty of legit questions and info from commenters as well. Maybe she is hyperfixating on the gross comments which can be hard to not do
I’ve never encountered someone who is so closed off to alternate information. Each and every-time she is challenged on a “fact” she leans in HARD to her confirmation bias, and hires a professional to produce content that supports her narrative with cherry picked data. It’s so wildly unprofessional and dangerous
For some reason UA-cam has started to show me blogilates shorts and it's just so... weird. It's like a parallel universe that was supposed to be a parody.
I finally told UA-cam I wasn't interested in them because it's always clickbaity bs
She scares me, in terms of her level of influence, given the fact she spreads a certain level of misinformation, whether this is intentionally or not. As you say, I appreciate the fact she seems to appeal to people who are new to exercise and can get them moving. But she does potentially set up unrealistic expectations around what can be achieved at times, like with those slightly odd, basic body weight arm ‘exercises’ she promotes, implying you can somehow spot reduce fat and build muscle by using, well, air for resistance.
“She scares me” - this comment articulates exactly what I was thinking! I can’t imagine being new to fitness and using current Blogilates as a fitness guide… hope she gets to a better place mentally :/
unfortunately, unlike other influencers who lie to their subscribers for clout and profit, our poor blogilates has actually drank the koolaid and believes her own nonsense to the detriment of her own health and the health of those who trust her
You are spot on about the ✨summer vibes✨ Pot holes, construction, and road closures 🙌🏼
I roll my eyes every time I see her product at Target. It makes me sad that there are so many “influencers” putting out bad content that people just lap up.
Honestly she should devote herself solely to her company and stop making fitness content lmao
Her gold weights are hella cute tho
@@alexaparkinson7465 shes responded to a comment that was really similar to what you just said and she called it hate 💀
@@draculena wow she really thinks everything is hate…if anything having more time to devote to her company would benefit her sales and stuff
I'd love to have some of her products 😁
The “all or nothing” attitude reminds me of when I was deep in my ED. Also pretty upset when she posted a few weeks before she started her 90 day challenge that she was worried about her fertility and wanting to start possibly trying for children.
Given how on the fence (and leaning towards no when her husband does want them), I firmly believe part of this "journey" and getting to a lower body fat % (which can negatively impact menstruation and fertility) is a method of avoiding having to think about or get pregnant without having to come out and say she doesn't want to. Whether she even acknowledges that to herself. But yes, agreed, so much of her behaviour flashes me back to my own ED, then the whiplash to fitness and obsession with Only Healthy, Only Protein.
@@SaintSabre Wow, I had no idea about this (her husband wanting children, her being hesitant) and if it's true she's (consciously or subconsciously) trying to manipulate her weight into a territory where she cannot get pregnant...... that's absolutely sad and horrifying :(
Why 90-day when we all know that getting strong, fit and healthy is a personal and "lifelong" journey? What's the end goal here? To sell another journal, cookbook, protein powder, outfit and fitness program? It's not right to "promote" or "market" a fitness journey that is potentially harmful to others. We can all tell that it's unsustainable, unnecessary and misguided, and she knows that too cuz she's experimenting it on herself, and obviously not thrilled by the results. Calling yourself a failure, not being "perfect" or "good enough", all that obsessive behaviours and all or nothing mentality, it's not about rectifying her unhealthy past tbh. It almost sounds like a cry for help. I hope that she can show more kindness to herself, improve her relationship with food and fitness, and be accountable for the kinda content she's selling/endorsing. I think her followers would appreciate and benefit from that way more than reading about her DEXA scan stats and neverending drama with the so-called haters.
You summed up a lot of my complaints with this. Exactly- why a 90 day journey? I guess the plan was to stop lifting after 90 days? It all reeks of manipulating her audience.
What makes me sad is her comment section where she’ll respond to the people that are telling her how wonderful and inspiring she is, but she’ll say nothing when there are people having conversations about really harmful stuff, like the best ways to spot reduce. It makes me wonder what her motivation really is.
I absolutely adore your channel. I’ve followed blogilates for awhile and have fallen more and more out of love with it - A LOT of eating disordered behavior. Obsessive exercise is its own form of anorexia. I’ve been concerned for a long time and happy to find someone else who feels the same.
I've been waiting to see the conclusion. Excited to hear your thoughts!
Love how you always approach other people in such an empathetic way 🥰
You honestly made my day a lot better :)
Also, your channel feels like such a safe space, I love it ❤️
I don’t follow Cassie anymore because it appears to me that she has some type of ED or obsession with fitness and it was affecting me in a negative way. The way she would talk about it seemed positive but her actions didn’t align.
Harry, this video was perfect! I so appreciate everything you teach us from physical health to mental health. The manner in which you speak is everything. You are fabulous.
Thanks for sharing such quality and science based information about fitness. So needed! It definitely helped me start to heal from unrealistic expectations carried by the fitness industry.
I think it would be awesome if you ever made a video really diving into the science of muscle building. I feel like all these fitness influencers tell you to do stuff but never actually explain the real chemistry and biology behind it (maybe because there is no real evidence backing their claims). It would be amazing if you did a video explaining what is happening to the body and muscles when you expend energy, do progressive overload, go into calorie deficit etc. Thank you so much for all that you do. Best wishes!✨
I would love to see this too!!
That's on the list now!
You should check out Natache Oceane’s building muscle: science explained. Or something along those lines. I feel like her ideas align a lot with this creator!
Jeff nippard has a great video about it. The video is called "how to build muscle". Its explained in 5 stages with each one giving a more detailed look at hypertrophy.
I really wanna say: thank you for all the great informative content you put out there ans thank you for consistently being respectful without being overly kissassy. Merci a vous.
Just came across your channel this week and absolutely love what you’re doing here. Keep up the good work dude!
I honestly feel bad for Cassey. She clearly has an incredibly low body image and likely personal image despite all her success. Her life revolves around proving people wrong and the numbers. It never comes from her own personal, inner validation. She’s also the person in power in the interactions she has with her “haters,” yet she blames her own mistakes and failures on them. It’s honestly frustrating how she can never take accountability and admit she’s wrong. She can’t take constructive criticism because she takes it so personally. She doesn’t see it as her program being unscientific and ineffective but that there’s a problem with her. Unfortunately, she has influence over so many people and she’s leading many down her same path.
Cassie has been problematic for me since ~2016. I found her in my early teens after a year of recovery from an ED. I loved her workouts and did them form home but tbh the things she promoted and said were not things I needed at that time of my life and I wish I realized that early on. Luckily I fell more in love with weight lifting and stopped doing her stuff but she will always be considered a part of my disordered days. Her latest challenges and posts just prove how unhealthy her own relationship with food and exercise is.
Couldn't agree more with your commentary. Thanks for shedding light to the widely problematic fitness industry and giving us some hope!
Love the video again! Have learned so much from the content you've been putting out, inclusive Pump Fiction! More people need to see/hear it!
I had followed Cassey for years off and on and then started following her hard again during the pandemic a couple years ago. Finally towards the end of last year some post she made about her weight made me snap and unfollow her on everything and I signed up for obé fitness so I could still workout at home and be in a fitness class esque setting. My mental health regarding my body image and self confidence has drastically improved since then. No idea why it took my so long to connect all the dots.
So much of her blog posts just make her seem so.....sad. She's so hard and down on herself and seems to always seek validation from the internet - I truly hope she can get that sorted and do what's best for her
Clicked on the video as soon as i got the notification. Have a lovely evening Harry💛 and everone that is reading this as well!
Video Notes:
The big one we’ve all been waiting for! I agree that Blogilates and many of your most negative commenters out there dismiss constructive criticism as “hating” to deflect legitimate points.
All good information, genuine concern for her and her audience, and I definitely think you approached this in the most thoughtful way possible! Your tips at the end for helping to optimize her “90 day journey” are much appreciated and way more evidence-based, which I think will be helpful for a lot of people who do choose to do something similar, but actually have a higher likelihood of success by doing things that are actually effective. It’s a shame she didn’t reach out to you for help, as I do consider you one of the smartest people out there when it comes to optimizing hypertrophy. 🙂
Great video again, and I agree with the overall mental health message you always push as well and not focusing on the numbers (something I’m guilty of). Always great sauce!
PS: We all know the chair's constantly break just because you are massive AF, they can't handle the gains.
BREAK CHAIRS TOGETHER!
Progressively overloaded the chair
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So excited for this video!!
I'm so excited for this one! :)
Thank you so much for answering my question 🙂
I can't really feel bad for Cassie because part of me feels like she set herself up for failure from the start. Now she's just come out with the protein powder so it makes sense now why she's suddenly pushing that she wanted to gain muscle. Also I saw she has now done a high protein cook book with the food she ate on her 90 day journey 🙄 hence the synical part of me thinks all of the drama and the whole 90 days was to sell protein powder and a cookbook
I found the emphasis on numbers, and specifically the emphasis on the "round" ten, extremely disturbing. Obsessing this much about so called "even", "round", "symmetrical" and "lucky" numbers is a very common occurrence in a lot of different mental illnesses. Unfortunately I went through something very similar when I was struggling with anxiety and depression, so when I saw her using the very same words that I used (along with a tons of other red flags)a, I felt terribly sad. I don't understand how she can be struggling so hard while being seemingly surrounded by many loving people (her parents, her husband...) that apparently don't notice her disordered way of thinking. I really don't understand. I was completely alone when I was ill. I had to take full responsibility for my mental health issues without any kind of support, and that is an insanely difficult thing to do. Not ideal by any means either. I always think that things would have been much smoother if only I had a support system at the time, but every now and then I see people like Cassey, people surrounded by family and friends that are hurting so bad and so clearly, left completely alone like I was. I don't get it, really. I don't get how is that possible. Deep down, I consider those absent friends and family members partially responsible for the terrible long-term consequences of untreated mental illnesses, and I get really angry. Cassey is a functioning adult and thus she is the primary responsible of her health; but the people in her life that are seeing what she's doing to herself and deliberately choosing to look the other way are enablers and overall horrible human beings, because I don't believe for a minute that they don't know what's happening. Here, I said it.
I acknowledge that my words should have been chosen more carefully, but I feel very distressed right now, so I'm truly sorry if I'm (probably) coming off rude and bitter. Let's get to more positive things as quickly as possible! Harry, your channel is a precious jewel and your hat collection is unparalleled! Thank you so much for bringing accessible information and joy (and the latter is even more important, if possible!) to the internet and to the whole industry! I discovered your channel very recently, and that was definitely the luckiest occurrence in my life since the crazy time I found my favorite shiny on Pokémon Go. Riveting story, that one!
Sending you a HUGE virtual hug! Please, keep up with the amazing contents and have the most beautiful day! : )
I experienced depression and body anxiety during my early teenage years (I'm 17 now), and even though I was surrounded by my family - including my parents, aunties, and a newborn younger brother - I felt isolated, everyone had issues they were dealing with and I felt like I had to deal with my issues on my own. I had no friends to talk to either.
I understand how you're feeling and where you're coming from but it's possible to be in the midst of people and not have them acknowledge or understand what you're going through. I hope that Cassey finds help and healing before she causes harm to herself and her followers.
Thanks for your comment regarding motivational dips being normal. I'm in one at the moment and trying to remind myself that slowing down for a bit doesn't take away from the work I put in to get to this point. There is so much unlearning to be done from all the things toxic diet and fitness culture taught me growing up
Ooooh I've been waiting for this!!!!
Commenting to boost this video! Thank you for continuing to provide truth and facts in a sea of misinformation
Been waiting for this video!! Love your content so much xx
You brought up some great points in this video! I feel like you could have showed more examples though or elaborated more when you said “a lot of people already know my thoughts in this” because this is the first video of yours that I’ve watched so I was a little lost at those parts.
I have been WAITING for this vid
I’ve been waiting for this video since she made her blog post about her results.💀
90 days was a huge sales promotion of her Protein Powder (which she even said "that's what I've been using in my 90 days journey (HELLO product placement lol)) and her "cook book" in which in every recipe she ONLY uses her protein powder and claims the use of other protein powder may result in different outcome, so basically those who are buying her "cook book" and forced to buy her protein powder! She's all about selling selling selling now! And her stuff is SOOO not cheap!
It makes me feel like she'd fit in well with the Beachbody crowd. "Only our supplements work! Only our equipment is best!"
I’m very excited for the upcoming supplement video. I have been looking into taking pre-workout so I’m hoping you can touch on if it is a good idea or not xx
I’ve stated before I don’t care for Cassey, never watched her and don’t think I will.
I’m not even an expert or anything but I even know that trying to gain 10lbs of muscle in 90 days was not gonna work. I could be wrong but from my perspective it seems like she was trying so hard to prove the “haters” wrong that she set herself up for failure but honestly she didn’t fail. Harry love the message of focusing on your mental health! So important. Can’t wait for part 2!
HURRAY! I've been waiting for your thoughts on this
TY for the COQTW answer. That's exactly how I trained from the get go and still do.
“Don’t let the chapter dictate the rest of the book” 👏🏻👏🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻
The video's finally here!!
I agree there's no way her numbers are accurate. Especially since I think she was including the fluctuations in her "results", and we have no clue if her starting info is accurate or was also a fluctuation.
If I was Cassie I'd just get someone else to program and train me, but we know she won't take anyone's guidance as anything but criticism. And she likely isn't in a healthy enough headspace to actually align her nutrition goal or workouts with building muscle.
As a side note I'm loving adding pilates in around my workouts lately, so I hope her misinformation online and need/claims for unrealistic "results" from pilates won't deter people from trying something new!
This is the scary side of the internet. Anyone can put out anything even if they have absolutely no idea what the hell they are doing, all while badly influencing fragile minds. Sad to see so many people following these so called experts....sad indeed.
I just watched and liked one of Cassey's videos today. I got into her videos for her designing part of her channel and always glazed over her workout videos. But now that I have seen this video, I'm seeing that it is true. Despite how much I didn't pay attention to the other parts of her channel, I knew she was selling protein powder right after finishing her "Building Muscle" journey. And once the numbers gained were put into perspective, it sadly all fell into place. She really wasn't doing it for herself. I don't know if I should support her anymore. I know that I really like her design videos, but I don't like the body toxicity that she might cause others. Sticking to Chloe Ting for workouts :p
Tbh, a take away for me is that people should avoid exposing themselves to radiation for unnecessary things. There are times it’s good to get scans done and the data is incredibly valuable, but every time you do it there should be consideration. Like, I hope people don’t start getting DEXA scans because they think they need to. I’m sure not many will be influenced to since it’s expensive anyway, and it’s Cassey’s body, she can do what she wants. I just always think it’s better to be conservative with these things when they aren’t medically necessary. I think the technology has cut down a lot on how much you get exposed to which is good. But food for thought.
That’s an interesting point. I think that we simply don’t need to know every single stat about our body, and that it can contribute to negative mental health symptoms. Like knowing one’s weight, for example, is only helpful for some people and most people don’t need to know that number to get healthier/happier/whatever goal you want.
if it was for her (as she says it is) then she shouldn't post it on the internet. That makes no sense to me. I know she says its for accountability but she can get accountability in ways that don't include the world to see.
Agreed
I did one of Cassey's splits training video workouts one month ago and I have been in excruciating pain since. I've had to go to the doctors and seek physio. It was way too much and it was advertised as if for beginners.
She deletes those comments not because she is delusional, she deletes them because everything is just business to her. Remember the first 90 day journey? All those planners and diet plans that she sold. Now there is a 90 day journey to muscles and protein powders to buy lol
Yes i think she is even worse than straight scammers because she paints herself as victims
YES I can't believe more people are not seeing this!
I've followed her from the very beginning because of her positive energy, but there have been so many concerning posts and videos over the years.
Unfortunately, she wasn't willing to listen to experts on how DEXA scans work. A lot of her weighted routines contained moves my gym teachers would class as dangerous (pushups/burpees while braced on round weights, tossing weights from hand to hand, etc). I gain muscle relatively quickly and I can't gain 10lbs of muscle in 2 months. It's just not possible.
no hate at all, but i was shocked by how brazenly childish she was regarding her results. she was so upset, hearing you talk through the logic/reality of her situation was akin to consoling a child. she has been in this industry for so long, she should understand what’s realistic and obtainable. i’m a normal, uneducated person (when it comes to fitness) and even i understood from the start that these results/arbitrary “10 pounds muscle gain” were completely unrealistic.
Theres a weird disconnect when it comes to that stuff, people will gain say 10 plus pounds in a few months and no visible or recorded fat and say its all muscle, not realising your weight can fluctuate a few pounds a day, and the body can easily retain 20+ lbs of water.
Great video!! Love it🔥
I also question her "muscle" gain because she never posts a before and after pic of the 90 day journey. If she did lose that amount of fat and gained that amount of muscle, it will be VERY visually obvious. She only ever showed a comparison during the challenge against a photo that was YEARS old and after she had starved herself for weeks for a cut (800 calories a day or something).... so not even close to what she looked like at the start of the journey. I.e. intentionally misleading to make the challenge results seem significant.
It’s a bit of a bummer to say, because I wish the best for Cassie, but I’m not surprised that she’s disappointed. The standards with her workouts, eating, and everything in between proves unrealistic, so she was already setting herself up for failure. It’s sad to see, and I do hope she grows and learns much from this in a healthier direction.
I loved the squeaky chair part, haven’t laughed so hard all week 🤣🤣🤣
I can’t wait to show my trainer this tomorrow
Sorry, but I cannot accept that she is misinformed. She is in this business many years now and should know better. If she doesn't, it means that she just doesn't care to become educated about the industry that she makes her money off of. It is irresponsible and wrong. Hate is not constructive, but this type of content makes people angry for a reason.
Who did you do your PT training with and who would you recommend? Want solid knowledge and understanding and be able to walk away sounding like you. Doubt it in all honesty but always wanted to do one but don't know where to start.
Love the cone hat, now you're matching the Duke of Wellington in Glasgow center 😄
She is heading to a big depression, if she isn't there yet, and many of her followers, too.
She sould have associated with a specialist to design the program (you, for instance) and then report the journey if she wanted.
I had a dexa scan done when I had box braids. It counted the braids as fat
Great Video as always !
I tought that it was me commenting 🤣
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I very much agree with your take on her 90 day journey. I don't think she's very honest with herself which in turn seems to make her content problematic. The last several years just feels like she made a personality out of "proving" others wrong. More importantly though, "I'm a very flaccid traffic cone" is now my new favorite sentence. Many thanks for that.
To me, it is clear she still struggles with body imagine, etc. But that's not a critique.. she is human. I struggle with the same. I think what is problematic is that she lies to not only herself, but to her followers. And then she makes money off of it. I personally wasted so much time thinking doing a body-weighted prayer pose for 5 min. would somehow build my arms. I wasted time thinking I could somehow spot reduce. What actually helped me, was tuning out these Pilates-focused instructors (I am NOT hating on Pilates in general!!!) who tell women the WRONG workouts make you 'lean'. Or those who use that type of body-shrinking lingo that is ALWAYS thrown at women. Casey is just like them...and I don't think she's doing anything besides trying to make money... wish she didn't have the chokehold that she does for so many of her followers!
Also for everyone who is not on it yet: the pump fiction Podcast is a banger!!
The squeaking is just chair-language. They're complimenting you on how buff you are.
It would be awesome if you also talk abot dangers of protein powders. Some influencers seem to use it in almost every meal. And with it being a completely unnatural food, how much is too much?
Yess good question!
Is it rrly unnatural? Because we get protein from chicken, lentils and other types of food. However it would be nice to have a video discussing myths or dangers surrounding supplements
protein powders aren't dangerous unless you have kidney issues.
I was worried about that and talked to my nutritionist about it because I find it hard to feed myself sometimes but I can usually have a protein shake and she basically said "if you need to have a protein shake for every meal, that's what you do." I'm sure I'd run into issues if that's ALL I had because of lack of other nutrients but based on what she said I'm comfortable having one after my am workout for breakfast. YMMV
I don’t believe there are any dangers associated with protein powders. The body doesn’t perceive it as any different from taking in ‘natural’ proteins.
Probably a hopeless question: How to fix a plateau? I'm struggling so much with progression. I'll have a few good weeks, maybe even a couple of months of steady overload etc. And then all of a sudden, I hit a bad week for whatever reason, I drop the weight a bit to even get through my workout and I just get stuck for weeks, like I'm starting all over. And for some of my lifts I've barely been able to up the weight or reps at all for months. (Please tell me the answer is to eat more cake or something).
Are you overtraining? Maybe just a good break is needed. I’m currently on one right now because I was seeing signs of overtraining from continuous progressive overload. Just some good old fashioned sleep/rest and a slight calorie surplus to make sure your muscles can repair might help!
Good question! I hope Harry will answer!
But I do agree with the prev comment^, have you tried having a deload week or period?
@@maryssaann Thanks! Yeah, I've done one week of deloading, which didn't help :D. Then I took all of Easter off, which hasn't seemed to help either. But more sleep might help.
Only a week. Maybe I should just go on holiday or something :)
Apart from deloading, how are your sleep and recovery? Eating in a slight surplus could be another option that might help, if you choose to achieve that through cake then go for it 😂 if modifying those variables doesn’t help, it may be time to adjust or change your programming
Thoughts on 2 days cardio, 3-4 days resistance training?
Happy Thursday!
Yeah, I usted to like the routines that she posted, because I liked feeling exhausted after my training session, which was a bad thing to look for, because I felt like I was doing a lot, but I was getting nowhere. I did the 100 ab challenge and it didn't work because my abs didn't get to rest. Anyways is really sad to see, the amount of rest on her training is none and the reps are montrose and not good for you at all.
She starts a 90 day "journey to muscle" and oh what a coincidence also starts selling a protein powder and a cookbook? Nah, I'm out. Both of her "journeys" have been marketing ploys. She claims she's doing it for herself and then she turns around and sells it. I get it, she's running a business, but just be upfront about the real purpose of these journeys. I also don't trust her to provide nutrition advice as far as I could throw her. I like her pilates workouts, I wish that she would have just stuck with what she knew.
I think at the time Cassey became a instructor it was in the early 2000s and this was time of misinformation because a lot of people had a lack of knowledge or some experts did know certain things but did not share everything about overall health. So I think Cassey picked up on the misinformation like a lot of people did and stayed with that belief till know. Not to say that people cannot change and do the research but unfortunately this was not the Case for Cassey, and has now been saying any information regarding the debunking of her old information that is outdated is hate. When some people are just giving her constructive criticism not hate at all. I do love Cassey and I find her a good person but she really needs to take some time away from UA-cam for her well-being.
Comment question for ya! What are some signs that you're undereating?
Also, if you take suggestions on content ideas, I'd love your thoughts on Vince Sant's V Shred program!
Thank you for these videos. They're incredibly helpful.
so true, she was my start in health and working out and i loved her positive nature and these comments say everything i've ever wanted to. Another topic you could talk about is her imo vv toxic 28 day reset program, didn't like it, didn't suit my lifestyle at all
I actually ended up unsubscribing to her email list after that post. I was not a big fan but I liked to read it sometimes but the last blog post was so triggering. She is old enough to understand these things and how to measure. As everyone said, she never failed. She had a goal that was not realistic and the method was not either and then she had so much negative self talk, it disheartened me especially when the other posts were about loving yourself, eating well, not chasing appearance etc. but she just did the same things, ate less than needed, covered it up and just- I am disappointed :( Not something I want to look upto
I respect Cassie but it’s clear that she’s surrounding herself with yes people and that can hinder her ability to remain self aware, but it’s hard on the internet I can’t even imagine being under all this scrutiny… but that also doesn’t mean we can’t be critical of someone who is very influential for people, especially young ones
Great Video
Hey Harry! You always tell your audience that the wiser choosing would be to perform the movement in its full range of motion. I was wondering though, do pulses (like squat pulses, bss/rdl pulses) have no place in a workout? Personally, I used to include them in my training, cuz they cause quite a lot of burning. But now that I've learned from your videos, that just bcs it's hurting doesn't necessarily mean it's working, that makes me question whether or not they're worth performing. Anyways, hope you can help me with that.