How Social Media is RUINING Fitness: The P*ssification of Weight Training
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- Опубліковано 8 чер 2023
- It's 2023 and working out like a chump is all the rage.
Squats don't build big legs. Loaded carries are worthless. Isolating every muscular function of the body and eliminating 100% of the stabilization demands is the only way to optimize for hypertrophy. Lifting anything remotely heavy is ego lifting. Your joints aren't aligned properly and your body is dysfunctional. You are building on top of a cracked foundation. Hard work is ineffective and only dumb meatheads do that. Easy work is optimal. Cables and machines only. No more deep squats. The tried and true classics ain't it. Don't forget to close your eyes.
Social media is ruining fitness and I, for one, am tired of it.
Extremist positions get the clicks and the views. Some of the absolute dumbest things get the most attention. And this cycle feeds itself. In a marketplace where this sort of disingenuous behavior is encouraged, stupidity and extremism breed success, which breeds commensurately larger and larger amounts of stupidity and extremism.
People love being told that something easy can replace something hard with the easy thing being just as effective as the hard thing was. But when it comes to fitness it's a pipedream. It's bullsh*t. And the biggest progenitors of said bullsh*t are spoon-feeding it to the masses by the bucketful.
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I always remember the story in the 7 habits of highly effective people where a professor filled a large jar with rocks and asked his students if the jar was full. Nearly all of them said yes, but then the professor poured in smaller pebbles. He asked them if it was full now, and a much smaller number said yes, but then he poured sand into the jar. By then, the students were wiser and all of them said the jar wasn't full before the professor poured water in. When he asked them what the point was, one student said that the point was that there was always room for more. The professor said that, while that was part of the truth, the bigger picture was that you couldn't get everything into the jar unless you put the big pieces in first. Similarly, there's always room for the smaller, somewhat less essential elements in any practice provided the big pieces are in place first. Love your channel.
Some beginner guy at the gym said i had a good developed back and asked me what exercises i do. I told him that i only do rdl's, pull ups and wide rows for the back, that's all, 3 exercises. He was like in shock because he sees everyone doing unilateral stuff and 10 different exercises and yeah brah unilateral lat pd to feel the muscle bullshit. The gym was full of people that day doing those exercises and i just told him "Look bro, look at them, can you see what they all have in common?" He said to me "What?" And i replied, they're weak, and they will remain weak. Stick to the classic stuff and get better at it or just spin your wheels with the unilateral garbage stuff lmao
we need a seedman encore video. his latest video of wacking a swiss ball on his clients head while doing a trap bar deadlift is gold
I personally blame Athlean X and the other science based youtubers along with the FuNcTiOnAl fitness crowd, what happened to going hard and leaving it all on the line and taking your workouts to the hardline
I just saw some dumbbells at target yesterday that had some kind of soft foam handles to protect your fragile palms 😂
Brought my son to the gym today: 5 min bike, ladder work, plyos, mobility, power snatch, contrast back squat/box jumps, hang power cleans up to 295x3. Pussification not detected
Oh snap. You went full Rip at the end!
We've arrived at an age where sumo pulls with deadlift bars and figure 8 straps is a legitimate measure of strength
I was less than 10 years old before the 2010s, but even then I feel like there was some "wussification" of weight training and fitness in media (excluding whatever social media was at the time): in magazines, tv, "fitness" classes in gyms, and various scam products. I think social media has just ruined it worse because it's far easier to spread that nonsense with an online platform that is so easy to build with these apps. But I honestly feel like the people who fall for these are a different crowd. Maybe I walk past them every day, but the people I see at the gym do train pretty hard. Probably, the chumps will quit soon: the self selection process in action!
Hey there Alec, off topic question I know, but how did you go about training your mobility to do the BTN press?
You’re right. I miss the days of training when there was no social media. Gyms were a lot less packed and gyms were not a destination for the masses of imbeciles.
I think "easy" versus "hard" is important in the context of whether something is hard because it allows you to hit the target goal better, or whether it is hard because it distracts from the goal. For example doing a bosu ball squat for strength/hypertrophy is "harder" but in the same way that benching while someone tickles your armpits is harder. The extreme instability prevents you from using maximal power output safely and detracts from it. In an opposite vein, doing a regular squat is "harder" in that you can use more absolute load and really push your muscles and CNS, and that is the actual useful form of hard. I think a mistake from these optimal bros is trying to substitute exercises that aren't interchangeable. Those iliac lat isolation things are not bad if you're still doing your heavy pulls, but if you try to replace a compound pull with them you're gonna see much less gains. But on the flipside, if you substitute a barbell row for a fancy hammer strength row machine (with upper back hypertrophic goals), you might see better gains because while the movement is "easier" in the technique required, it allows you to work "harder" at targeting your main movers and lets you push much closer to muscular failure without form breakdown. And even then, the difference is probably not too big, so people shouldn't miss the forest for the trees. Bottom line is that I think exercise selection does matter, but what's much more important is knowing how to structure a program with the important movement patterns. A lot of new lifters don't understand that and try to fill their programs with super isolated lifts. I think there's a BIG difference between joel seedman and optimal bros though. Seedman is 100% a clownshow. Optimal bro lifts are not inherently bad. Once I built my base, I realized how useful they were for bringing up my lagging lower lats. It's just that they should be secondary to the meat and potatoes heavy lifts of the program, rather than being the majority of the program. It's really a mindset thing too. When you make an exercise selection decision you gotta be honest with yourself: "am i actually choosing this lift because its easier and im a coward, or because it enables me to work harder towards the adaptations I want?"
This channel needs more subs. One of the best on this site.
One of favorite comments from you. Push presses coordinate movement from the upper body with lower body. While I favored strict overhead presses I now see even more value with the push press. Not to mention it essential training for the jerk.
every time I go to the gym:
I'm just gonna rephrase my comment from your previous video:
It's just a way for people to feel superior to others without actually doing anything. Like, I'm a 140lbs sack of bones and I see a 200lbs jacked guy deadlifting 500lbs and I can just say 'that's not optimal, he should be doing 30lbs queefs for sets of 10, otherwise he's going to have imbalances.' It's a way for pussbois to negate others' hard work.
First video I watched from this channel and I instantly subscribed. I totally agree with your points.
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For years I was adamant that form came first and everything else was second. As soon as I let the form slide a bit and lifted heavier my gains exploded. As long as you aren't ripping the p!ss with your form doing an exercise you should be fine.