You Can Build Muscle JUST By Using Your Mind!? Response to
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- Опубліковано 28 чер 2024
- I didn’t even want to reply to this one.
In the past few months, I have been tagged in numerous videos from @StevenBartlettSC@TheDiaryOfACEO, where some wild outlandish claims have been thrown around.
It’s a great podcast, and Steven is an incredible host, literally one of the best, but several of their health guests have said some questionable things.
Like “intermittent fasting boosts your testosterone by 1300%” (lol), or “ice baths strip body fat off you faster than anything on the planet” (also lol).
Some of these claims are simply made for catchy social media clips, and the podcasts themselves are very reasonable. This is the clickbait nature of social media; riling you up to grab your attention.
But, some of these claims are outright garbage.
So, when I was tagged in this latest video saying you can visualise your way to 13% more muscle mass in 2 weeks, you can understand why people are skeptical of the claim, right?
Here is why I didn’t want to reply to it.
Two types of content are great for social media engagement.
1. A wildly false and outlandish claim that grabs peoples attention, like many of the podcast snippets I have replied to
2. A brutal rebuttal that calls bullsh*t on the original video, as all the people who knew it was bullshit share it far and wide
But, when the truth is somewhere in the middle, you deserve better than that.
Do you know what isn’t sexy? A detailed video explaining what the science actually says.
It takes far longer for me to compile all of this research together than it does to make a quick video saying “oh my god, this is absolute nonsense!”.
Basically, nuance and detail are dying on social media. Which is a shame, because science deals in nuance.
So, for the small percentage of you who will watch to the end, I hope this was interesting. 🙂
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They were visualizing while injecting 600mg of test...
Maybe the mind muscle connection is that link….but that’s alongside/during exercise. I never heard Schwarzenegger or Jay Cutler saying they thought themselves to the Mr Olympia title.
Keep up the content!
Are there any podcasters you DO recommend? I've recently started listening to a few episodes of Huberman's podcast that came up in a search, and have been impressed with the content. I especially like that he's not a single-subject podcaster, but uses a central theme to tie multiple items together to get a better understanding of the podcast topic.
Male
Age: 20
Weight: 200 lb
Muscle mass: 40% (80lb)
0.13 * 80 = 10.4lb
A person would need to eat 2.4lb of chicken breast (or equivalent) every day just to get that much protein.
Assuming a 1-1 conversion to muscle.
Wtf? 😱 I love Steven Bartlett and his podcast but sometimes, just sometimes, he has complete shit talking charlatan’s on like Tim Spector 🤯
I stopped the original video after the guest said that women aligned their menstrual cycles when living together. This myth has been disproven some time ago, and her advocating it made me lose interest immediately.
Yeah a lot of 'filler' episodes to cause controversy, followed by big guests that people actually want to see.
@@MairiAngwen I thought that was common knowledge, also that some women's cycles are synced to the moon.