The WORST Fitness YouTuber Ever (HARSH)
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Date: 2023-02-05
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Alexandros
99% of every movement done in a basketball court is not bellow a 1/4 full squat range. Are there benefits in basketball players doing full squats? Sure! But it's all about the specific individual goals, body mechanics and stage In their training. as a basketball player myself and a guy who was done research on what's optimal For a BB plai, I couldn't agree more with Jeff. A vertical jump, a sprint, a change of direction etc happens at a very little knee bend and it's all about ground contact time, which simply explained means explosiveness. Quarter squats quarter split squats and other quarter positions Are super beneficial and optimal for BB players as they put them in the position they produce the force to do movements most of the time. Bottom line is, stop generalizing people. Not everyone is training to have a fitness influencer appearance which is most of the time not functional and only eye pleasing. There are higher reasons people train, which is to excel at their sport. ( which pays them a lot of money btw. So stop trying to be experts just to draw attention, sit you ass down and stfu if you want to even learn anything.
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99% of every movement done in a basketball court is not bellow a 1/4 full squat range. Are there benefits in basketball players doing full squats? Sure! But it's all about the specific individual goals, body mechanics and stage In their training. as a basketball player myself and a guy who was done research on what's optimal For a BB plai, I couldn't agree more with Jeff. A vertical jump, a sprint, a change of direction etc happens at a very little knee bend and it's all about ground contact time, which simply explained means explosiveness. Quarter squats quarter split squats and other quarter positions Are super beneficial and optimal for BB players as they put them in the position they produce the force to do movements most of the time. Bottom line is, stop generalizing people. Not everyone is training to have a fitness influencer appearance which is most of the time not functional and only eye pleasing. There are higher reasons people train, which is to excel at their sport. ( which pays them a lot of money btw. So stop trying to be experts just to draw attention, sit you ass down and stfu if you want to even learn anything.
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Sebastiaan
The only exercises that are sub-optimal are the upright row and behind neck shoulder press, as these cause internal rotation and risk a shoulder injury.
It's better to do something that is not exactly optimal (but at least safe) than not doing anything at all because you are to focused too much on perfection or optimal utility.
How can you say to your brother, Brother, let me take out the speck that is in your eye, when you yourself do not see the log that is in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take out the speck that is in your brother s eye.
What these influencers are doing is known as virtue signaling (holier than thou);
The public expression of opinions or sentiments intended to demonstrate one's good character or social conscience or the moral correctness of one's position on a particular issue: it's noticeable how often virtue signaling consists of saying you hate things standing on the sidelines saying how awful the situation is does nothing except massage your ego by virtue signaling.
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The only exercises that are sub-optimal are the upright row and behind neck shoulder press, as these cause internal rotation and risk a shoulder injury.
It's better to do something that is not exactly optimal (but at least safe) than not doing anything at all because you are to focused too much on perfection or optimal utility.
How can you say to your brother, Brother, let me take out the speck that is in your eye, when you yourself do not see the log that is in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take out the speck that is in your brother s eye.
What these influencers are doing is known as virtue signaling (holier than thou);
The public expression of opinions or sentiments intended to demonstrate one's good character or social conscience or the moral correctness of one's position on a particular issue: it's noticeable how often virtue signaling consists of saying you hate things standing on the sidelines saying how awful the situation is does nothing except massage your ego by virtue signaling.
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bigmac5911
I've had CNS burnout or fatigue once in my life. It was the 2nd time I had used a yoke. The first time I used the yoke, I spent about 45 minutes to an hour figuring out how to use it. Nothing hard or crazy, I didn't really challenge myself at all, just teaching myself the implement.
The 2nd time I used it, I knew enough about how to use it and went absolutely ham. I was trying to see how far, fast, heavy, and how long I could go with it. The phrase knew enough to be dangerous comes to mind. I pushed myself too much on it without being acclimated to it at all. My body had no idea what was going on. I felt fine that day. But the next day, I felt like a truck had hit me. I didn't want to eat, I couldn't walk in a straight line, my head hurt, I felt cold. It was like I had the flu.
Since then, I have never felt that. Those conditions (going extremely hard on a full body implement that my body has never been able to acclimate to) have never happened again.
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I've had CNS burnout or fatigue once in my life. It was the 2nd time I had used a yoke. The first time I used the yoke, I spent about 45 minutes to an hour figuring out how to use it. Nothing hard or crazy, I didn't really challenge myself at all, just teaching myself the implement.
The 2nd time I used it, I knew enough about how to use it and went absolutely ham. I was trying to see how far, fast, heavy, and how long I could go with it. The phrase knew enough to be dangerous comes to mind. I pushed myself too much on it without being acclimated to it at all. My body had no idea what was going on. I felt fine that day. But the next day, I felt like a truck had hit me. I didn't want to eat, I couldn't walk in a straight line, my head hurt, I felt cold. It was like I had the flu.
Since then, I have never felt that. Those conditions (going extremely hard on a full body implement that my body has never been able to acclimate to) have never happened again.
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Devin
I go through this every few weeks at the gym, and someone tells me I should REALLY be doing Deadlifts and Squats on the Smith Machines.
I can't anymore because 1) I have spina bifida occulta in my low back, so it's structurally compromised and 2) I used to do deadlifts and squats but I nearly tore a muscle and ligaments in my sacrum in 2020 while performing a routine deadlift on a Smith machine.
My doctors told me if I wanted to risk irreparably damaging my back, then keep on doing them.
I'm 45 and am not interested in crippling myself, so I started figuring out how to adapt around it. I started doing more hip-thrusters and other exercises that provide work to those areas, but are more structurally stable and minimize risk to my already compromised sacrum.
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I go through this every few weeks at the gym, and someone tells me I should REALLY be doing Deadlifts and Squats on the Smith Machines.
I can't anymore because 1) I have spina bifida occulta in my low back, so it's structurally compromised and 2) I used to do deadlifts and squats but I nearly tore a muscle and ligaments in my sacrum in 2020 while performing a routine deadlift on a Smith machine.
My doctors told me if I wanted to risk irreparably damaging my back, then keep on doing them.
I'm 45 and am not interested in crippling myself, so I started figuring out how to adapt around it. I started doing more hip-thrusters and other exercises that provide work to those areas, but are more structurally stable and minimize risk to my already compromised sacrum.
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Pete
I see Jeff describing what I call a condition or illness of these times. People like to think they have things all figured out and do what I liken to seeing one piece of a 10 million piece puzzle and think they understand the whole picture. Folks seem to make snap judgements on that little bit of information and then in their mind, fill in conditions that don't actually exist. A buddy of mine did something like this to me recently. He made a comment based on one thing he saw I was doing and critiqued it without knowing all of the reasons why I was doing what I was doing. I politely explained my reasons to him. He had nothing further to say.
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I see Jeff describing what I call a condition or illness of these times. People like to think they have things all figured out and do what I liken to seeing one piece of a 10 million piece puzzle and think they understand the whole picture. Folks seem to make snap judgements on that little bit of information and then in their mind, fill in conditions that don't actually exist. A buddy of mine did something like this to me recently. He made a comment based on one thing he saw I was doing and critiqued it without knowing all of the reasons why I was doing what I was doing. I politely explained my reasons to him. He had nothing further to say.
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dgr1209
Hey Jeff, hope you read this. I have FAI in my left hip which unables me to workout leg properly, I can't make a 90 degree angle between my leg and my torso, I would say I can only raise my leg about 30-35 degree. I follow your perfect routines and bought your abs app, but leg is really imposible for me and also some abs excercises are painful if done at full range, I went through surgery but it fixed nothing. Could you give me some advice to workout leg and abs? Thanks a lot, love your videos, you inspired me to start working out.
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Hey Jeff, hope you read this. I have FAI in my left hip which unables me to workout leg properly, I can't make a 90 degree angle between my leg and my torso, I would say I can only raise my leg about 30-35 degree. I follow your perfect routines and bought your abs app, but leg is really imposible for me and also some abs excercises are painful if done at full range, I went through surgery but it fixed nothing. Could you give me some advice to workout leg and abs? Thanks a lot, love your videos, you inspired me to start working out.
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kelgbrown007
There are some many fitness influencer's out there now (calling Canada their home) that are making a living critiquing others content. Because its easy to. Lets be honest, there are only so many ways to bench press, so it takes work to put out new content. But, its easy to say, dont bench press like that, you should do it like this. Because that allows you to say the same thing over and over again. Where if you created a bench press video, showing your optimal way how many videos could you truly create.
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There are some many fitness influencer's out there now (calling Canada their home) that are making a living critiquing others content. Because its easy to. Lets be honest, there are only so many ways to bench press, so it takes work to put out new content. But, its easy to say, dont bench press like that, you should do it like this. Because that allows you to say the same thing over and over again. Where if you created a bench press video, showing your optimal way how many videos could you truly create.
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Dxpehat
You missed the chance to talk about people criticising classic proven exercises and replacing them with some weird alternative that actually is worse for hypertrophy and strength. For some reason people call bench press suboptimal and want to replace it with stuff like pinch press. They try to isolate certain muscle as much as possible, but forget about the fact that muscles never work alone and that isolation movements won't build as much mass and strength as classic compound movements can!
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You missed the chance to talk about people criticising classic proven exercises and replacing them with some weird alternative that actually is worse for hypertrophy and strength. For some reason people call bench press suboptimal and want to replace it with stuff like pinch press. They try to isolate certain muscle as much as possible, but forget about the fact that muscles never work alone and that isolation movements won't build as much mass and strength as classic compound movements can!
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Peter
Really enjoy your content. Thankfully I'm off most social media. I just did your exercise programme at the Gym (JACKED) at the time and just did things to beat myself. Instead of being called sub-optimal, I had people coming and asking what I was doing. Can't wait to get to AX-1, but working through XERO first (Not near a gym atm. Loving this programme just as much. I agree around context, - everyone dealing with their own thing at the gym and has their own goals.
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Really enjoy your content. Thankfully I'm off most social media. I just did your exercise programme at the Gym (JACKED) at the time and just did things to beat myself. Instead of being called sub-optimal, I had people coming and asking what I was doing. Can't wait to get to AX-1, but working through XERO first (Not near a gym atm. Loving this programme just as much. I agree around context, - everyone dealing with their own thing at the gym and has their own goals.
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FNHot
This is something that I learned over time in the gym. When I was new, I'd look at someone doing light weight, or an unconventional exercise, and think They're wasting their time. But now, as an adult, I wonder if it's the end of their workout, maybe they went heavy yesterday, or maybe they are training for something very specific. You'd have to go ask, and sometimes, yeah they have no idea what they're doing, but most of the time, they have a reason.
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This is something that I learned over time in the gym. When I was new, I'd look at someone doing light weight, or an unconventional exercise, and think They're wasting their time. But now, as an adult, I wonder if it's the end of their workout, maybe they went heavy yesterday, or maybe they are training for something very specific. You'd have to go ask, and sometimes, yeah they have no idea what they're doing, but most of the time, they have a reason.
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Charles
As a professor of rhetoric (basically, a teacher of the theory that all meaning we derive from language and images is always unavoidably contextual, I admire this greatly. Jeff Cavalier is smart as hell--yes, I'd say even wise. I'm not anything near a fitness expert, but I love the sophistication of his messages. The example about the LeBron's context is genius. Finally, I admire the humility he shows in the part about Zac Efron.
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As a professor of rhetoric (basically, a teacher of the theory that all meaning we derive from language and images is always unavoidably contextual, I admire this greatly. Jeff Cavalier is smart as hell--yes, I'd say even wise. I'm not anything near a fitness expert, but I love the sophistication of his messages. The example about the LeBron's context is genius. Finally, I admire the humility he shows in the part about Zac Efron.
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sport
I am so glad you are addressing this. That is the most frustrating thing in fitness and health. the amount of people that swear by what works for them and admonishes you for what you are doing. Everyone has different paths and different journeys. There is no one size fits all and is terribly frustrating to have so many people chiming in with their superior knowledge.
Thank you, Jeff. I sincerely thank you for all your videos.
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I am so glad you are addressing this. That is the most frustrating thing in fitness and health. the amount of people that swear by what works for them and admonishes you for what you are doing. Everyone has different paths and different journeys. There is no one size fits all and is terribly frustrating to have so many people chiming in with their superior knowledge.
Thank you, Jeff. I sincerely thank you for all your videos.
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Augustin
Case in point, Jeff. I have taught martial arts privately for over 40-years. I have never had two students who were trained the same way. Body types and abilities simply don't ethically allow for that. In my own training since watching your program over the last 6-months I focus primarily on core strength. I am grateful for the gains I have achieved but, As Bruce Lee famously said, Absorb what is useful, meaning to you.
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Case in point, Jeff. I have taught martial arts privately for over 40-years. I have never had two students who were trained the same way. Body types and abilities simply don't ethically allow for that. In my own training since watching your program over the last 6-months I focus primarily on core strength. I am grateful for the gains I have achieved but, As Bruce Lee famously said, Absorb what is useful, meaning to you.
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Snake
Lmao Jeff is doing exactly what he's complaining about. People explaining how exercises can be sub optimal is directed toward the general public with generally good mobility. People who need variations know they need variations.
A guy who had knee surgery knows he's not gonna be doing heavy squats for awhile. Using outliers to prove a point about the majority is actually retarded.
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Lmao Jeff is doing exactly what he's complaining about. People explaining how exercises can be sub optimal is directed toward the general public with generally good mobility. People who need variations know they need variations.
A guy who had knee surgery knows he's not gonna be doing heavy squats for awhile. Using outliers to prove a point about the majority is actually retarded.
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Lightspeaker
Had to pause this. I'm sorry. I'm so sorry. feeling the annoyance in your sit down today. Someone fed you some pizza and some pasta have you a couple double espressos and the day off and your like I got time for these fools today. You might as well say I pity the fools. But this is why some kids need to stay on school I guess. Teach em Jeff, teach em. Ok. press play.
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Had to pause this. I'm sorry. I'm so sorry. feeling the annoyance in your sit down today. Someone fed you some pizza and some pasta have you a couple double espressos and the day off and your like I got time for these fools today. You might as well say I pity the fools. But this is why some kids need to stay on school I guess. Teach em Jeff, teach em. Ok. press play.
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