Every once in a while, it's good to get a few things off your chest and let loose a little. Most of the time, a rant is just a rant and it gives insights to what I think about sometimes. Well, let's see where we go and what happens.....
The fitness industry can be a complicated and overexaggerated entity and what many put out or claim can be as ridiculous as Adam Sandler ever winning an Oscar or the Colorado Rockies winning a World Series (the latter most likely to happen between the two). Anything that trends, will be a buzz for like a few days and then vanish. The problem with certain trends, many never let them go and act like they were the best thing since the invention of the lightbulb. It can be annoying as hell sometimes.
On the most ludicrous things people say/claim is hilarious at time, such as......
"You should be curling 100 lbs as a grown man"
I get sometimes guys like to ragebait but at the same time it does become repetitive. The idea to just put a random number of whatever and say you're either a man or not is just dumb as hell. If I bounced back saying "either you do 500 Hindu Squats or you're a pussy", what would that make me sound like? An asshole right? So what's the point of saying what a man is or not based on some lift or exercise? It makes you want to smack somebody upside the head.
"Drink 10-13 liters of water a day"
Do numbnuts like this care about their Kidneys? Apparently not and tries to convince people it's healthy when in reality unless you're dying in the fucking desert, you don't need to be drinking THAT much water. Guess they never heard of Water Intoxication or Hyponatremia where blood sodium becomes dangerously diluted. This also causes brain cells to swell up. So someone not only wants to put a person at risk, he doesn't give a shit if they live or die. People like this need serious therapy and should not under any circumstances be telling grown human beings to do this.
Drinking water should be done when one is thirsty and have balanced hydration. Even the body needs a bit of salt to keep things at a level. Hell, even a gallon of water a day is pushing it unless you're an athlete or work outdoors consistently.
"Sprinting isn't a form of Cardio"
This came from a supposed "National Athlete" who ran sprints and I'm sorry but this was pretty out there.
There is a difference between Aerobic and Anaerobic Cardio where it hits areas of heart rating from 2 different perspectives that lead different paths to what is considered cardio. Aerobic cardio is the idea of bringing the heart rate to a working level where you can keep going for extended periods of time and utilizing oxygen (Running, Weighted Walking, Eliptical Exercise). Anaerobic cardio is utilizing without oxygen and going hard to hit heart rates at a maximum level for shorter bursts of exercises (Sprinting, Burpees, Explosive Jumping) that force you to breathe so heavily you're practically hyperventilating.
Both of these entities target what is used for developing cardiovascular endurance and strength endurance. To say Sprinting isn't a form of cardio is like saying Community Theater isn't a form of acting, it's a moronic and dumb notion.
Next up is bullying people to get you to buy products. What prompts someone to be such a dick to people in order to get them to buy something from you? What's the point of verbally abusing a customer to pay you for services? Trainers and wanna-be "gurus" do it often and it boggles my mind that people get sucked into it in order to get something out of themselves. It's a marketing SCAM to put these dumbasses up on a pedestal so they can live their sick fantasies and make others feel worthless.
These are the same dipshits that if you don't buy from them you're a loser or if you question their motives and fucked up tactics they'll post countless videos that have nothing to do with fitness and try to bury you when in reality they're not only telling on themselves but showing how much hatred they have for themselves by self projection. Some of these same people also have no respect for women as well and will do anything in their power to verbally attack, emotionally abuse and a strong possibly to be physically violent towards women (telling people like grown men to smack women upside the head so they know their place), even making someone choose two very extreme things (something deadly and another forcing himself on another human being) that should put them in Solitary Confinement or treated as a risk to public safety if you have something against their so called standards. I'm not joking, there are people like this out there that have done this on of all places YOUTUBE.
Bullying and Psychological Violence have no place in the Fitness Industry period. This isn't the mafia or if you don't do one thing it's going to affect your livelihood. This is what is damaging and making this business look weak. It's weak people like this that don't have a moral compass and shouldn't even be working in this field. They're disgraceful, mentally incompetent and above all pathetic beyond reasoning.
There are way too many influencers that wouldn't know a curl from a curling iron let alone know how fitness and training works. They use way too many complicated notions of what they believe exercise is while these guys are juiced up to the gills or already on TRT by the age of 30 and thinking that's some form of health. In the majority, this does not bode well for them in the long run and are destroying themselves while teaching people how to look and be stronger.
Simplicity has become a lost art in the world of fitness and even then, some of these morons take it to extremes while preaching about smoking not being bad for your health and you can be in such great shape by smoking two packs a day, drink 33 cups of espresso or something fake or made up like that or fast for up to 10 days or more at a time. They talk about extreme workouts like its going out of style when in reality, they can't post one thing that actually shows them being "extreme". It's because they can't do it and try to be so convincing that their word is their bond when they can't tie their own shoelaces without running their mouth about things that make you question their mental capacity. In truth, they cannot do just about anything they claim and they're all talk, no show and think they know how to put on muscle when they look like a twig that begs for attention.
It won't surprise me someone that lame and weak will read this and post/film/write something about it and go on their own rant talking like the peanuts teacher from Charlie Brown and will be talking to nothing but air. I can be highly certain views for that will be stuck at less than 10, if it does go higher, cool, then more people will learn how bad he really is at his terrible ranting. People don't care about your little tantrum. Hell, many most likely won't give a crap about this article and that's ok. I'm just telling it like it is. When you have made so many rant videos that repeat the same things over and over, it shows how weak you really are and how you'd rather post about things you can't stand than actually be productive and do what you claim. You can't, it's not in your nature and it's going to bite you in the ass big time if it hasn't already. In most cases, these guys have nothing original to write or talk about.
These are the things that really grind my gears and being open about certain things because this is real and it's not easy keeping stuff to yourself (believe me, one guy doesn't know the meaning of zip it and thinking he's this big famous hot shot when he's not even in the same league or shine the shoes of someone like Charles Atlas, Karl Gotch, Hackenshmidt or Zass). Anyway, if you took the time to read this and enjoyed it, I appreciate you. If you took the time to read it and took it too personal, well, you can always stop reading and just move along. If you didn't like it, cool, go read something else, there's plenty of other things out there that may tickle your fancy and clearly it wasn't meant for you.
The people who read this blog and get something out of it, I'm thankful for you and I'm honored to give you options to things that could help you be better in your life. To the haters, the more you read and get pissed off, even to the point of making videos of how much of a terrible person I' am to your "audience", the more it reflects on you than it does on me and shows that if you really don't like what I post, all you have to do, is not read it. Not that hard. The trouble is, you keep making it harder for yourself and it brings out more of your self-loathing and throwing away any opportunity to better yourselves. Shit, you may even send me some sick comment that shows your obsession and living in a delusional fantasy world.
For the rest of you guys, be amazingly awesome and remember....The smallest fraction of progress always lead to the bigger picture. Shoot me a comment or throw an email my way in the Linktree below.
