Spotting Is For Idiots

Here’s a video that’s tagged as showing squat fails, but more of a standout are the morons who stand by to spot or “help” these narcissist “lifters.”

It’s bad enough these ego lifters set out to do what they do, but the mystery is the ease with which they can recruit even stupider people to put themselves in dire straits…and for what? It doesn’t take a genius to look at some of these situations and deduce the risk to the helper is overwhelming.

If you’re suckered/shamed into spotting for some entitled asshole, that’s all on you. Quite a few recent quadriplegics will probably agree with me.

A Trainer To The Hollywood Stars Explains

I was compelled to respond to this YouTube video posted by a trainer to Hollywood stars for its suspicious content. This is a promotional video for this guy's business. I get it—and I don't have any problem with that, with earnest self promotion to keep his career expanding. However I think a lot has been left out or glossed over here, as physically unaccomplished actors turning into superheroes overnight with such ease fails the litmus test.

Speaking as a Personal Trainer in Hollywood for over two decades, I am skeptical that Bradley Cooper, as just one example in this video, who has stated he did not engage in any challenging ongoing exercise routine previously, was brought to such a high level of strength and fitness in less than 12 weeks—and all without injury as claimed.

Even with an assist via legitimate physician-prescribed and closely monitored testosterone or anabolic steroid administration, such a feat in my experience would be well above and beyond extraordinary. As my readers know, I am a major proponent of physician-prescribed and monitored HRT and anabolic steroid application, as I am of any monitored physician-prescribed pharmaceutical or treatment deemed to be individually beneficial and warranted.

The workouts as described here would be physically battering and depleting even for someone in my condition, so to believe that all these inexperienced actors (who in this vid are unrealistically portrayed by super-experienced fitness models in extraordinary condition) accomplished what is claimed, and in such an abbreviated time period...well...I don't buy it.

Shame On Christine Byrne and Huffington Post For This Bullshit.

Link to the article in question HERE

“You aren’t responsible for your shitty health and body” and “You might as well give up” are the self-serving messages of this disservicing piece by chronically overweight Christine Byrne. Crammed full of New Age, Crystal-Worshipping, Abracradabra Bullshit is this absurdity penned (and knowing the Post’s well-documented reputation for not paying freelance writers, probably uncompensated) for the Huffington Post by a woefully uninformed, deeply prejudiced failure.

I’m sure it will be enthusiastically embraced by the like-minded legions of fellow failures at something as simple and logical as maintaining the one and only body you will ever inhabit.

If you run your car into the ground you can always buy a new one. The same with your house, your credit rating, and more. But run your body into the ground, and as Porky Pig stutters with a big smile, “That’s All Folks!

Your Chosen Diet Is Yours Alone.

This is why COUNTING CALORIES is essential to both weight/fat loss and muscle building. 

Baffling & Inexplicable...

...that there could be so many of these people.

If You Really Want To Fuck Up Your Spine, Train with This "Professional."

This is preposterously bad/injurious form:

https://www.instagram.com/p/BosGjQbBDD9/

Cutting Through The Noise

If you’re one of those people who searches the internet for fitness or nutrition advice, then your head is probably spinning right about now.

There’s no shortage of fitness "gurus" claiming to have the answer or telling you the only way is their way. Endless arguments over workout type, how much weight you should be lifting, how often you should work out, what to eat, what not to eat — often people who have really impressive physiques are in direct opposition with one another, so who are we to believe or follow?

To begin with I’d go with those who are not posturing. The loud animated lecturers are the most annoying—shouting and wildly waving your arms doesn’t make anyone seem more credible, just more desperate. If some doofus is inferring you’re not a man or you’re some loser because you aren’t doing things his way, i.e., you’re not lifting heavy enough or not doing squats or bench pressing or whatever, that should be your cue to move on to someone else.

As a personal trainer I am always baffled by people who had achieved success in their career or business who failed to apply those very same principals to their fitness, health and well-being— persistence being the main one. The same people who willingly put in overtime at the office scoff at doing the same with regard to their fitness and nutrition, refusing to research on Google or YouTube, even when I sent them direct links to useful information.

Thinking all you have to do is show up might get you somewhere, but not as far as your full potential indicates if you also do your research and homework.

Dexter Jackson Wants You To Lighten Up

I've stated before that you have to decide whether your goal is to be a bodybuilder or a powerlifter, because combining the two only leads to injury and compromised results. So many guys at the gym are fixated on "going heavy," while their resultant poor form, physical struggle and poor esthetics should be telling them they're spinning their wheels.
I get puzzled looks from guys at my gym when I'm doing presses with 30lb dumbbells and they're struggling with 60s, yet my chest size and shape is similar to theirs. Their entire set is an awkward precarious struggle with their delts doing most of the work (it's a CHEST exercise, not a SHOULDER exercise). Mine is fluid and controlled with my pecs in charge of the movement and minimal shoulder involvement.