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Such an important message Adam, and it's great that a big channel like yours has said it. There's so much misinformation and mis-directed focus out there. It's not just fitness, it's pretty much everything where someone can earn money or gain status. It's one of the reasons I became a kung fu teacher, I saw so much bad teaching out there. As I moved into being a PT and helping people fix their bodies I saw it all again.

see people do it with plates as well, keyboard warriors don’t understand because they don’t try and experience movements. lol

Thanks Adam! Really good points 🎯 Your kids and wife are lucky to have you, and so are we 😊🙏

For someone who needed to pay attention to health and had never been interested in exercise (type 2 diabetes), video content (mostly youtube) is incredibly valuable. Showing what to do is way better than books. Also there is the possibility to connect with others who are interested in health (those in gyms etc are more interested in other things). As you say the problem is more likely to be one for young people.

I love that you and some of the other channels you mentioned exist. There is so much good quality content out there, and I love that people like you are espousing being okay with yourself, and that you will get things wrong sometimes. And that there is no quick fixes, and consistency and dedication will get you where you envision yourself, not magic bullets. Thanks again.

I genuinely believe that for the people who stick with it the longest, fitness is most rewarding as a craft. In many ways, it's one of the most straightforward crafts to progress on, especially compared to something like painting or woodworking. If you working out and get results satisfying your deep urge to be creative, then you'll stick to it for a long time. The same can't be said if you work out to get the attention of women (or other men).

Straight bars

Cheers mate! still love your content, and still trying to be Batman, with sciatica pain

Such a good video essay! I feel a lot of this could be applied to the world of online martial arts content.

My mum is terrible for this. She did Atkins, she did low fat, she did cabbage soup, she did juice plus, low fat again and now she's doing keto - which is just the Atkins diet again. Always going for the fad diets that promise to make you lose weight fast and let you eat all the yummy treats you like. I injured my leg a few years ago and put on a fair amount of body fat. Now I'm lean again after sticking to a diet of not eating as much as I used to when I was trekking >70km a week.

What's your take on doctors saying soy and tofu decrease testosterone?

You mentioning culture war and alpha I'd worry you start calling people incels which defeats the purpose of these types of videos. "I'm here to encourage you also you're a word that implies low moral character."

When I see clickbait, drama related to other influencers, soyface in the thumbnail, I simply don't click. I don't know these people, I will never meet these people, I don't care about what they do/did. I care about results and tips and tricks to get them. And yes, unless you take exogenous testosterone, natural increases are too low to have any effect on muscle. And yes, looks, money, charisma are what influence your life. For most of the population, fitness is just a hobby, it won't change anything, just a way to pass the time.

100% truth I wish more people would meet up to discuss YT content and training. Rather than what I see now, where people watch YT tune out real people and follow an online tribe. 😢

I'll have to give this a try tomorrow. After 35 years of construction work my right shoulder gives me lots of troubles.

I love you man. Especially for that “soy boy” point, sick of people on that one.

Excellent video Adam. Thank you for pointing out that most of what the algorithm’s dish out is sensationalized content. You, on the other hand, are straight foward and willing to share your faults too. In other words…A multi-faceted human being. Cheers!!

This was really great and I agree 10000% (I'm exaggerating my claim so that more people might see it...hahaha) but seriously.... RUclips and sociable media fitness is like the old Joe Weider magazine ads with Arnold and Franco surrounded by hot chicks, only to the 1000th power! Same idea: prey upon the insecurities of young men (and women) and profit from it. At this point I totally ignore ANY RUclips vid that says "the ONLY blah blah blah you'll EVER need" and any of the permutations thereof. I refuse to be screamed at, yelled at, or told I'm a loser for not following whatever the person doing the screaming and yelling is telling me I should do. I'm 57 years old now and never have had good genes for building big muscles. When I was younger it really caused me a LOT of angst because I sure trained hard and was very consistent but I was only going to go far in that regard. Bitter pill to swallow (and something Joe Weider certainly would never have wanted me to know!) So now things are different. I could literally care less if my training is "optimal" for this or that and in fact I have come to hate that bloody word (fwiw I'm part British, seriously lol) I'm still pretty consistent but I try to do stuff I enjoy AND still challenge me to get and BE better. This is what attracted me to your channel... you are way outside the "normal" RUclips box and that is precisely the reason I continue to watch. Stay true to yourself, stick to the principals you outlined here, and your channel will continue to grow in the right direction! much kudos, props, pats on the back, and thumbs up to you, sir!

So, so well said. The part about obsessive optimisation and batman roleplay vs a practical Batman training program that someone could actually implement really struck a chord with me.

💯 ♥️ 🔥 🤘

Yes, being consistent is better than "better".

You bastard! Take it back! You take it back! I am special!

This video should be seen by everybody interested in fitness.

Also, don’t forget that some big fitness RUclipsrs, such as Dr.Mike, are giving out advice on how to maximize your fitness as a full time body builder. Most of us watching fitness videos are just looking to be a relatively fit person who looks decent and lives healthy but it’s so easy to get sucked into thinking that you need to be maximizing every effort and constantly getting bigger and bigger. Absorb the useful info but don’t fall prey to the body image pressure.

Great video bro. Ad I commend your vulnerability and humility. This is one of if not the best fitness video out there cause this is raw and real content. Facts and truth. You’re a real one thanks for this one and your channel 🙏

is there a chance to lengthen the clavicles ?

Beautiful video. Unfortunately so many people want to buy into the bullshit and further their own insecurity, while also trying to bring others down. Self destructive humans… standard.

OMG this should be a mandatory intro video for everyone getting into fitness. Ignore the noise just do the basics and what you like.

Very good 👍

Video felt kind of like "old man yells at clouds" video, soy boys, cars, vegetables 😂

5:05 but it will. Just having muscles is a currency. Finding a partner is a miserable endeavor, and its even worse when youre unattractive. But even unattractive guys that are muscular can still message 10 people and tell them to meet at his house in an hour and 9 of them will show up. Whereas anyone without a muscular physique has to work and beg just to get noticed.

A voice of reason? Say it ain't so!

Damn, you've just blew up my Watch Later playlist with all those fitness youtubers.

Don't try to be a great man. Just be a man. - Zefram Cochrane

Great video. Love your stuff. Stay real !

THANK YOUUUU !!! And keep going STRONG!!!

The obsession these days of being "alpha" and oozing with so much confidence and intrigue that everyone in a 10 mile radius feels your spiritual pressure like this is Bleach seems like such an empty pursuit to me (even ignoring how categorically disproven the alpha-beta model of social interaction is). What is the intended way you want to interact with the world with all this superhuman but vague confidence, and does that make you happy to limit your personality to only what fits in an "alpha" box? You're telling me that if you and your friends were joshing about a dumb movie and laughing, you just want to stand there in your alpha pose, put your eyes in a predator squint, and say only the most witty remarks while clearly asserting dominance on all the other men in the group who are just having a good time? By all means if you feel uncomfortable talking to someone you're attracted to or you want to feel stronger and more comfortable in your body, work on yourself. But don't think you have to be superior to everyone or define what superior is as the opposite of who you are naturally, don't suppress yourself to act like all these "stoic" podcasters with McMansions and the ugliest, cheapest luxury vehicles they can buy.

Could you do a video on alpha males?

can you do more cognitive enhancement videos, like how gene therapy can do it?

The great thing about being older than today's 20-somethings is that it really is about health more than appearance. The longer you workout, the more you ask yourself how you can keep doing this forever. Will you stay strong in our 40s, 50s, 60s and beyond? We all get older. It's easier to be a healthy 50 year old than it is to be a 50 year old muscle guy with heart disease. It's about the long game.

The biggest "problem" i have with modern fitness content as a skinny guy trying to reach peak perfotmance, is a lot of it seems to be geared toward weight loss, bodybuilding, or drama gossip about whos on gear, none of which i give 2 sh*ts about. Not to mention their promtion of garbage supplements that either aren't efficaious or are full of filler or harmful ingredients.

I just started back up with training on Monday, trying to take it easy until I have a decent baseline habit and fitness level. I was going to listen to you as I did that, but I started to go down into a squat and the red light started flashing in my head. I think the heat and exertion from the rest of my day (lots of stairs and ladders) took it out of me. Get it tomorrow, though.

i think you were a little too humble in this video personally. i never really got the impression that you were really "promising" anybody anything but more so promoting a training philosophy of being reasonably balanced in terms of strength, mobility, endurance, etc. i think it is good that you are transparent with your issues but i wouldn't go as far as to say that "unintentionally portraying yourself as somebody who never had any issues" was really a "bad" thing per-se. nobody on the Internet is necessarily entitled to knowing about your problems if you do not wish to share them. Personally, I think you should try be your best self and not worry too much about how you may portray yourself to other people and any potential bad interpretations about your channel

You are a true inspiration and I couldn’t agree more, the current RUclips scene has far more junk than quality and informative fitness videos.

Learned this wrestling in high school, but with plate

I’d love to add something: the fitness to far-right pipeline is real! Far righters use this same marketing approach of being better because you are stoic and train, but add the discrimination of minority groups. LGBT people are seen as physically and mentally weak/I’ll and you are better than them because of your physical abilities. There is also this rethoric to be a warrior of god/saviour of Europe and to be physically preparing for the imminent danger migrants pose. Be careful out there, extremists flourish on social media

Have you got a friggin cookbook?

bro u need a new mic

FABULOUS MESSAGE!

6:00 >_> those are cordyceps (I bet) :3