The Workout: 10 Rounds of Back Rack Reverse Lunge Reps Start at 10 per leg, going down to 1 per leg while adding adding 20lbs per set. Superset with Toes to bar Reps go up by 2 each set until 10, then 10 per set.
As a person who was a prostitute from 2014 to 2022 I can explain to you that these people care about sport. The problem is that you have to live somewhere and pay bills, and you can't train professionally for beast results and work , so people are looking for something that will allow them to use the skills they have gained through gym. Unfortunately, nowadays being a gym enthusiast does not allow you to work in gym even if you look like a bodybuilder because everywhere you have to complete courses which automatically motivates people to shortcuts hence the huge increase in these OF and the trainer's Instagram. Modeling is practically unattainable and if you find a job in a small agency, the earnings from one session are around 300 euros for 5 hours, so it is not profitable. The only thing left is to work in a supplement store for the minimum wage. There are simply few options and most of us are ordinary people without any special skills, we just like sports but we also want to live at a level that allows us to pursue our hobbies.
@@frofroify My guy that hair cut or whatever you want to call it is definitely not in - just because people are doing it doesn't mean it is a good thing. Curly or not this is about a really awful hair cut.
Many such cases in life. You could make the case that genetics = socio-economic status... Born into a rich or well-off family? Congrats, you're now ahead of 98% of the population in the US, and you did nothing to earn it. Born handsome, tall, attractive? Congrats, you're now a top 5% male and you've done exactly nothing to earn it. Welcome to genetic determinism aka reality, of course you can do things to maximize what you got have but in the end you'll get mogged by someone working half as hard as you, it is what it is.
@@philipjin4902IQ is the single biggest predictor of success. Genetics impacts literally everything, and I’m glad people are finally waking up to this reality.
I appreciate this insight. A lot of people don't even realize that many female bodybuilders back in the day did swork because of lack of earning opportunities for them in the bodybuilding space. And the reason why most people don't know this is because that work was/is incredibly taboo so nobody's gonna come out and talk about that part of their journey, which is totally understandable. In the past it was tough out there for female bodybuilders but there was a "market" so to speak, for them to earn money without having to go work a 9-5 that would impede their fitness goals. Today there's a lot more opportunities for women to make a living as a bodybuilder but still its not exactly a get rich quick scheme unless you go the sponsorship route which honestly is the thing that I hate most about my own sport. The thought of advertising a product that I know it just gonna end up in a landfill, or selling supplements I don't use, feels a lot scummier to me than having an onlyfans, but I can only speak from my own perspective.
I wouldn't even say it was just women. Theres a lot of stories about bodybuilders indulging in g4p and other paid practices. Most are just stories, but that said, that's how Hollywood has operated for decades now.
As an avid fan of female bodybuilding, I knew this to be true. I also later learned that many of the men did things they might not wish to talk about openly in order to make money. A 9 to 5 presents a bit of an issue for many who have chosen fitness/bofybuilding as a career. So I get how or why so many have opted to onlyfans for income. It seems less dangerous and it’s definitely less taboo than the work many had to do “back in the day.”
Yeah absolutely. Back in the 90s it was shady guys asking men and women for "1 on 1 posing sessions" or "private sessions" or "exclusive photo shoots". Hungry athletes eager for exposure and success in the industry were ripe for exploitation. I feel that things are a lot better now, with athletes having more sponsorship opportunities, fitness becoming more mainstream, and athletes having more agency as their own brand as a result. OF creators get a lot of hate or whatever but i think being able to monetize your body from the privacy and security of your own home is definitely safer and overall better than what was going on in the 90s and earlier.
Fitness industry “sweats” isn’t fitness itself, it’s the same grind of infinite content creation that plagues all online money making. Of course, infinite growth and production is impossible, and entropy comes for us all, but the fight against it convinces some people to go into rage bait or SW so they keep making content.
Fitness; music; fitness & music; philosophy of fitness & music; strength & power; feeling strong & powerful; the philosophy of strength & power. . . . and it goes on and on. All of the above: because as long as you can find an engaging & interesting way of talking about these things, you’ll have an audience. Just keep it up, and I am optimistic that you can move this channel fund your music to the extent that the music begins to fund this channel.
One thing I have longed to see is day in the life, training content, of someone who trains, who aims to promote fitness as Zack described it while having primary goals outside of fitness. Like I would still love to see day in the life or workout content of Zack, someone with a no-bullshit approach to fitness, who’s priority right now is his music career and not being some sweat fitness influencer
Hedonism and discipline are not mutually exclusive. We're all commodities in one way or another I reckon. I sell my body to my employer for about 2400 hours a year. I picked engineering because my ass doesn't inspire a critical mass of customers throwing money at me just to see pictures of it.
When people say “sell your body” they mean selling consent and sex. Or putting your body up for sale in a titilating way. They do not mean putting your body in a place to do a task, you nimrod.
a sweat is someone who tries hard and dedicates a lot of time to something. the term is usually used by people who cant rly compete, so theres a negative connotation, but it's really not a bad thing. if there was a 1v1 basketball game w an LA fitness gym goer and a college athlete, the gym goer may call the college athlete a sweat. but its usually used in gaming.
But theyre not. The most fit people in the world are people like marathon runners, who look objectively worse than even the average gym goer, let alone the good ones. Also most of the people that look the best take gear to get there, so theyre also less healthy than the average unimpressive gym goer physique. Its muscles that are attractive, but muscles do not coincide with health or fitness, at least not at the levels that are attractive.
My man using the term "sweat" like we weren't calling people sweatlords, sweats, sweaty, and about a dozen other permutations for the last 15 years or so in gaming. 😅 it's a fairly old term brohan.
I am so over youtube fitness and influencer culture. there only so many ways you can watch someone workout and or speak in motivating aphorisms. And because fitness is simple and moderately boring you then get fit-tainers like greg doucette who spend most of their time hyping products and clowning others. This is entertaining but only for awhile. it all becomes mind numbing and one needs to read a book or throw axes or hike a trail. Anyway, good on you for being dissatisfied and exploring other worlds.
Maybe now that you’ve experienced traveling and entertaining, you can link up with other musicians and document teaching them about how to balance fitness and road life and they can give you pointers on musicianship. Would be cool to see. Much love
Love the insight on this. I’ve been noticing for a while now the lines between “fitness influencer” and what you could essentially call s3x workers blurring a while ago. I could go through my IG and point out exactly who does fitness for fitness sake and who is showing of their body for likes (which in all fairness they can do, it’s just that they pretend they’re something they’re not). What bothers me about this is these people still go on and influence young kids who don’t know any better and calling them out just gets you labelled a misogynist (even as a woman lol) or a bigot. One example -maybe silly but still- would be the sexualisation of workout clothes - but again, I feel like one can’t even say that anymore.
I definitely agree that this sort of thing has been popping up everywhere, but the reason people get called misogynists for this sort of thing all the time is that there seem to be a ton of people who indiscriminately criticize female lifters regardless of their content. In my experience, when I look at the comments of a gym guy (whether experienced or not) the comments are largely positive. When I look at the comment section of a female weightlifter, say someone who is legitimately participating in the sport like any of the female IWF competitors, it is flooded with people saying "my 10 year old cousin can lift more than that" or "learn to lift properly" or "she's just showing off her ass" or things like that. There are valid criticisms to be made, but I'd imagine it's very hard to be a genuine female lifter with such an overwhelmingly hostile environment.
Love it. The fatigued from the byproducts of social media/influencers is real. Feel like everywhere I go something or someone(OF) is being sold to me. I don’t have an intelligent response on what to do about it or why it’s bad but my gut just tells me none of it is good. Seeing the younger generation just consumed with the idea that they can be influencers or sell their bodies for sex to become millionaires. It’s like they been hard wired at this point.
The real shitty part is that it isn't just bodies being sold, it's everything. Data, goods, bodies, lifestyles, anything, and everything. Just going to the supermarket on a weekend gives me consumer fatigue.
This is not an original thought by any means, but it's an outlook I've come to adopt because it puts my mind more at ease with physical activity. Fitness isn't meant to be a marketing device to sell things (sex, in this case). Fitness should be a means of testing what you're capable of. And in doing so, understanding that the only limitations you have are the ones you place on yourself. That goes for all areas of life, not just the gym. Sometimes it's hard to get past the white noise that floats along the surface of certain cultures, activities, etc. But when you dive in, try to learn and extract lessons, and look at things deeper, it's far more beneficial. People should be able to plot the course of their own lives. But the rest of us don't have to pull on our own reigns to stay at the pace of those who want to continue floating on the surface. OF can only be tied to fitness if enough of us allow it to be.
The reason you can't relate to the "sweats" is b/c you're an athlete and approach training with the goals of an athlete (performance) and they're models and approach training with the goals of a model (sexual attention from strangers).
I think its far simpler, gym is an acceptable area to be half naked or almost fully naked. Girls can get in such outfits and advertise their body and if you judge them you will be set on a piller of shame couse of commenting couse she is just training so its really easy ad for her.
I think the place your thoughts went that was weirder was {do you think the people who push the aesthetics aspect of fitness to the extreme by using gear, or using the gym as a medium to attract people to their sexwork content give a shit about the principles of fitness} and I think it's actually much more likely yes than no depending on the nature of their discourse Those who use gear can have a positive message about the way people wan use fitness to change their life, become stronger and healthier and more resilient, We can absolutely point out the ones who are making themselves the subject of the content, rather than making fitness the subject with their journey as an inspiration to adhere to the principles With gym influencers with OF account it's the exact same, OF becomes an accessory to their main content, capitalising on the subset of followers that follows them because the gym made them hot to watch and not anything else in a way the OF content is their for the people in their following whom do not care about the fitness principles, or whom are in the know about those principles and do not care if this specific influencers is preaching them or not And you can have the type who are honestly preaching about what fitness is about, but know their is money to make by having an OF And the ones who don't really care about fitness and repeat what other people say in order to have an excuse to display themselves because it's a front for their OF to gain traction and get that bread And for Onlyfans creators whom are using the gym as a place to "display" their bodies in a sexually attractive but public way it's actually trickier to know I think; because the persona they adopt for their content is not for them to signify any interest or disinterest into the principles of fitness. They could personally use the gym as a way to turn their body into an ornament and nothing else, or they could love the gym and fitness for the same reason most people do : It gets us strong and it feels great and becoming hot is a bonus that helps them make the content they make. Either way we wouldn't be able to tell. This ambiguity might not be comfortable for us since we are looking to parce the egocentrics from the people who are looking to inspire and help, but at this point if this is what we're looking for on social media it's also not the kind of people we are going to follow anyway.
i mean you say yourself that zack's only "a little uncomfortable" - maybe he's just not as mad about it as you are? it seems that the issue he presents is that aggressive sex driven monetization efforts are cannibalizing the fitness space and leaving little room for avg joes. the mainstream "fitness" scene is less about wellness and passion, more about milking dollars by any means necessary. do you want him to call them hooers and ask them to repent? if so, making your own video is an option. let it out man! i'll drop a like 👉🏾👉🏾
We should start to be more critical about capitalism without the fear of being labeled as a dirty commie so that we can start to think about solutions that can solve these problems instead of just mitigate or as a paleative
What's wrong with capitalism? On a channel about fitness and competition, it's a little befuddling that someone would have qualms about the most competitive economic system in history?
@@AlwaysPeacefulMaDeuce With competition there are losers as well as winners. Economic losers turn to unsavory ways of earning money, OF, etc. Capitalism doesn't allow a common denominator of economic safety for everyone. What's the alternative? Making sure certain things are taken care of regardless if you win or lose. Like medical care. Economic losers should still get medical care. Everyone should get their medical needs met. Unfortunately that is not what capitalism is about (taking care of everyone). So, should we burn it all down? No, we should think creatively about solutions like @Fnijsaka suggests so people don't have to get pushed to do S Work etc to survive. We can look to Europe & other places for creative solutions that allow capitalism to flourish in appropriate ways.
I mean before of it was to the creepy cameraman for his website. the fitness industry has always had it's ties swork. it's very expensive and the type of people that do it a lot of time also want an expensive lifestyle to go with it. not something a 9-5 can provide for
You're not excited about putting your fitness on youtube? That's a bad thing? Imagine the millions of people who just grind every day in the gym and keep it to themselves.
Yes. I believe so. They are CrossFit style Toes-To-Bar. The swing makes them a more dynamic movement than a strict version. Allowing the ability to scale intensity by doing more. Bringing a cardiovascular stimulus into it. So less of a strict calisthenics ab movement.
Honestly it's crazy how much onlyfans has infested almost every subculture huge gear head and I've noticed that the dilemma is true for automotive content it's all just a glorified ad
Zack, I am a Day One fan of your content. Your technique videos fueled my own desire to learn Olympic weightlifting. However, I think the Fitness to Only Fans Pipeline would bother you only if you do not see the results of your efforts. Meaning, if you put in all the work and yet your body does not look aesthetic. This video sounds like a rant to me. Plenty of big-name Fitness influencers have not gone the Only Fans route. Glad to hear you are doing music definitely have to check that out.
I don’t know why I’m getting this recommended to me but it feels targeted considering some of the girlies I spend my free time with 😅. Oh nvm, it’s not about the dude, still a good and informative vid tho.
These people that finish off the next addon/expansion the first 48hs it comes out are as old as video games. It's funny that it triggers you, being a weightlifter, someone who's goal is to put more weight on the bar. These guys do the same - they wanna see what's possible. How fast can they finish the new expansion. How much weight can you snatch ? I see no difference. It's also a bubble. The casual gamers don't care one bit about these guys. The average gym goer doesn't know who Karlos Nassar is. Most often it's the guys who have that competitive itch themselves who get triggered by the 48h powergamer dudes because, first of all, these guys most often don't do it alone, you need quite a team to pull it off. Secondly, it's is, without discussion quite a feat. So often on some sublevel it is envy that leads on the surface to "nah man... can't relate to those guys..." while you can almost smell the sweat of the competitive spirit you so long to find again yet can't seem to, whilst those guys have it. That onlyfans thing is a different topic alltogether...
Hit the nail on the head imo. Tryhards push the limits and often casual gamers benefit from community discoveries in those spaces (e.g. soul dupes or shortcuts being found by dark souls 1 speedrunners). If you then use those things in a casual playthrough, are you then a sweat? Do people not in-the-know get jealous of knowledge? They absolutely do and they can suck it up. The most freeing mindset I've come into with gaming in my late 20s after being one of those tryhards for the better part of my life is that it's absolutely okay to be suboptimal if you're having fun. I used to be an optimisation limit pusher Andy, and when it comes to gym I absolutely am still a sweaty tryhard. But with gaming I don't feel a need to fling shit at those who are doing what I either can't or won't, because I remember that I was there being a sweaty little gremlin once upon a time and it was a blast. tldr people are sourpusses and often succumb to tall poppy syndrome. Especially when it comes to things they're passionate about but might not have all the time in the world to do. Also, sometimes people like to think they're competitive but really just like winning. If someone is reading this and realises they're like that, they should try just letting go and vibing out in their own way. No need to constantly compare and criticise. And it's absolutely okay to be suboptimal and enjoy it :)
The Workout:
10 Rounds of Back Rack Reverse Lunge
Reps Start at 10 per leg, going down to 1 per leg while adding adding 20lbs per set.
Superset with
Toes to bar
Reps go up by 2 each set until 10, then 10 per set.
As a person who was a prostitute from 2014 to 2022 I can explain to you that these people care about sport.
The problem is that you have to live somewhere and pay bills, and you can't train professionally for beast results and work , so people are looking for something that will allow them to use the skills they have gained through gym.
Unfortunately, nowadays being a gym enthusiast does not allow you to work in gym even if you look like a bodybuilder because everywhere you have to complete courses which automatically motivates people to shortcuts hence the huge increase in these OF and the trainer's Instagram.
Modeling is practically unattainable and if you find a job in a small agency, the earnings from one session are around 300 euros for 5 hours, so it is not profitable.
The only thing left is to work in a supplement store for the minimum wage.
There are simply few options and most of us are ordinary people without any special skills, we just like sports but we also want to live at a level that allows us to pursue our hobbies.
the fuck is that???
lets discuss the bodybuilder to Dubai pipeline next. I think we may find a lot of similarities
Like Mike Thurston🙄
Ohhhhh dam!!!!!@@erich1070
I feel some of them get extra from the rich Arabs if you know what I mean.
Can we talk about the fitness to broccoli top pipeline?
Hey just because you don't have curly hair and it's in right now doesn't mean you are less worthy its ok bro
Steroids make some hair curly
@@frofroify My guy that hair cut or whatever you want to call it is definitely not in - just because people are doing it doesn't mean it is a good thing. Curly or not this is about a really awful hair cut.
What are you telling us Zack?
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Barefoot snatches?
Soon™?
He is quitting weightlifting
@@zacktelanderwhen we are combining cheek and Zack in a dad joke way, we get check.
Is this pipeline girthy as it long?
😂😂😂
I cant pretend to act like it doesnt annoy me that genetics = money more often than not in this space.
Many such cases in life. You could make the case that genetics = socio-economic status... Born into a rich or well-off family? Congrats, you're now ahead of 98% of the population in the US, and you did nothing to earn it.
Born handsome, tall, attractive? Congrats, you're now a top 5% male and you've done exactly nothing to earn it.
Welcome to genetic determinism aka reality, of course you can do things to maximize what you got have but in the end you'll get mogged by someone working half as hard as you, it is what it is.
It's everywhere not just fitness
I think it's just a clearer indicator that you can't as easily quantify irl
You could argue iq, appearance etc. also impact your life and career
@@philipjin4902IQ is the single biggest predictor of success.
Genetics impacts literally everything, and I’m glad people are finally waking up to this reality.
@@N3RDYLICIOUS real
I appreciate this insight. A lot of people don't even realize that many female bodybuilders back in the day did swork because of lack of earning opportunities for them in the bodybuilding space. And the reason why most people don't know this is because that work was/is incredibly taboo so nobody's gonna come out and talk about that part of their journey, which is totally understandable. In the past it was tough out there for female bodybuilders but there was a "market" so to speak, for them to earn money without having to go work a 9-5 that would impede their fitness goals. Today there's a lot more opportunities for women to make a living as a bodybuilder but still its not exactly a get rich quick scheme unless you go the sponsorship route which honestly is the thing that I hate most about my own sport. The thought of advertising a product that I know it just gonna end up in a landfill, or selling supplements I don't use, feels a lot scummier to me than having an onlyfans, but I can only speak from my own perspective.
I wouldn't even say it was just women. Theres a lot of stories about bodybuilders indulging in g4p and other paid practices. Most are just stories, but that said, that's how Hollywood has operated for decades now.
Thank you for this different perspective, it’s a bit of an eye opener for me.
As an avid fan of female bodybuilding, I knew this to be true. I also later learned that many of the men did things they might not wish to talk about openly in order to make money. A 9 to 5 presents a bit of an issue for many who have chosen fitness/bofybuilding as a career. So I get how or why so many have opted to onlyfans for income. It seems less dangerous and it’s definitely less taboo than the work many had to do “back in the day.”
Yeah absolutely. Back in the 90s it was shady guys asking men and women for "1 on 1 posing sessions" or "private sessions" or "exclusive photo shoots". Hungry athletes eager for exposure and success in the industry were ripe for exploitation. I feel that things are a lot better now, with athletes having more sponsorship opportunities, fitness becoming more mainstream, and athletes having more agency as their own brand as a result.
OF creators get a lot of hate or whatever but i think being able to monetize your body from the privacy and security of your own home is definitely safer and overall better than what was going on in the 90s and earlier.
Gross
Drop the link big boy😘Can't wait to Zack my Telander 😩
He's such a tease
No doubt I know this is marketing for his only fans I know it. Those sweet cakes of his are going to pay off😅
Fitness industry “sweats” isn’t fitness itself, it’s the same grind of infinite content creation that plagues all online money making. Of course, infinite growth and production is impossible, and entropy comes for us all, but the fight against it convinces some people to go into rage bait or SW so they keep making content.
The fitness to country music pipeline
2:34 bro hate his knees
Fitness; music; fitness & music; philosophy of fitness & music; strength & power; feeling strong & powerful; the philosophy of strength & power. . . . and it goes on and on.
All of the above: because as long as you can find an engaging & interesting way of talking about these things, you’ll have an audience. Just keep it up, and I am optimistic that you can move this channel fund your music to the extent that the music begins to fund this channel.
Mixing two common interests seems like it'd be better than one uncommon interest in finding a niche audience. I am going to contemplate this tonight.
One thing I have longed to see is day in the life, training content, of someone who trains, who aims to promote fitness as Zack described it while having primary goals outside of fitness. Like I would still love to see day in the life or workout content of Zack, someone with a no-bullshit approach to fitness, who’s priority right now is his music career and not being some sweat fitness influencer
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Hedonism and discipline are not mutually exclusive. We're all commodities in one way or another I reckon. I sell my body to my employer for about 2400 hours a year. I picked engineering because my ass doesn't inspire a critical mass of customers throwing money at me just to see pictures of it.
When people say “sell your body” they mean selling consent and sex.
Or putting your body up for sale in a titilating way.
They do not mean putting your body in a place to do a task, you nimrod.
a sweat is someone who tries hard and dedicates a lot of time to something. the term is usually used by people who cant rly compete, so theres a negative connotation, but it's really not a bad thing. if there was a 1v1 basketball game w an LA fitness gym goer and a college athlete, the gym goer may call the college athlete a sweat. but its usually used in gaming.
3:00 Who'd have thought fit people are perceived as attractive...
But theyre not. The most fit people in the world are people like marathon runners, who look objectively worse than even the average gym goer, let alone the good ones.
Also most of the people that look the best take gear to get there, so theyre also less healthy than the average unimpressive gym goer physique.
Its muscles that are attractive, but muscles do not coincide with health or fitness, at least not at the levels that are attractive.
Recording the snatch and the clean and jerk has a different meaning on there 😅
My man using the term "sweat" like we weren't calling people sweatlords, sweats, sweaty, and about a dozen other permutations for the last 15 years or so in gaming. 😅 it's a fairly old term brohan.
for real, kids were sweaty playing street fighter 2 in the arcade
Lol brohan. I haven't heard that in so so long
Yeah dude, sweatlord and tryhard
Refreshing vid/perspective
Why is fitness social media full of OF? Because your body gets you hookups but your face gets you dates.
lol if it was that easy we wouldnt have anyone complaining about not getting laid, ever.
I am so over youtube fitness and influencer culture. there only so many ways you can watch someone workout and or speak in motivating aphorisms. And because fitness is simple and moderately boring you then get fit-tainers like greg doucette who spend most of their time hyping products and clowning others. This is entertaining but only for awhile. it all becomes mind numbing and one needs to read a book or throw axes or hike a trail. Anyway, good on you for being dissatisfied and exploring other worlds.
Maybe now that you’ve experienced traveling and entertaining, you can link up with other musicians and document teaching them about how to balance fitness and road life and they can give you pointers on musicianship. Would be cool to see. Much love
Love the insight on this. I’ve been noticing for a while now the lines between “fitness influencer” and what you could essentially call s3x workers blurring a while ago. I could go through my IG and point out exactly who does fitness for fitness sake and who is showing of their body for likes (which in all fairness they can do, it’s just that they pretend they’re something they’re not). What bothers me about this is these people still go on and influence young kids who don’t know any better and calling them out just gets you labelled a misogynist (even as a woman lol) or a bigot. One example -maybe silly but still- would be the sexualisation of workout clothes - but again, I feel like one can’t even say that anymore.
I definitely agree that this sort of thing has been popping up everywhere, but the reason people get called misogynists for this sort of thing all the time is that there seem to be a ton of people who indiscriminately criticize female lifters regardless of their content. In my experience, when I look at the comments of a gym guy (whether experienced or not) the comments are largely positive. When I look at the comment section of a female weightlifter, say someone who is legitimately participating in the sport like any of the female IWF competitors, it is flooded with people saying "my 10 year old cousin can lift more than that" or "learn to lift properly" or "she's just showing off her ass" or things like that. There are valid criticisms to be made, but I'd imagine it's very hard to be a genuine female lifter with such an overwhelmingly hostile environment.
Love it. The fatigued from the byproducts of social media/influencers is real. Feel like everywhere I go something or someone(OF) is being sold to me.
I don’t have an intelligent response on what to do about it or why it’s bad but my gut just tells me none of it is good. Seeing the younger generation just consumed with the idea that they can be influencers or sell their bodies for sex to become millionaires. It’s like they been hard wired at this point.
The real shitty part is that it isn't just bodies being sold, it's everything. Data, goods, bodies, lifestyles, anything, and everything. Just going to the supermarket on a weekend gives me consumer fatigue.
This is not an original thought by any means, but it's an outlook I've come to adopt because it puts my mind more at ease with physical activity. Fitness isn't meant to be a marketing device to sell things (sex, in this case). Fitness should be a means of testing what you're capable of. And in doing so, understanding that the only limitations you have are the ones you place on yourself. That goes for all areas of life, not just the gym. Sometimes it's hard to get past the white noise that floats along the surface of certain cultures, activities, etc. But when you dive in, try to learn and extract lessons, and look at things deeper, it's far more beneficial. People should be able to plot the course of their own lives. But the rest of us don't have to pull on our own reigns to stay at the pace of those who want to continue floating on the surface. OF can only be tied to fitness if enough of us allow it to be.
Cali muscle and larry wheel be on that trip.
"It's highly likely" is certainly one way to out yourself as paying a helluva lot of attention to only a certain type of fitness influencer.
What a great definition of fitness! Appreciate you!
The reason you can't relate to the "sweats" is b/c you're an athlete and approach training with the goals of an athlete (performance) and they're models and approach training with the goals of a model (sexual attention from strangers).
Can't believe I got an ad for Vanzant vs Elle Brooke on this video 😅
Great vidd Zack, I do enjoy this style! indeed gotta make this bread. Also love the garage style gym!
I think its far simpler, gym is an acceptable area to be half naked or almost fully naked. Girls can get in such outfits and advertise their body and if you judge them you will be set on a piller of shame couse of commenting couse she is just training so its really easy ad for her.
True as well. Pretty wild to see what qualifies as 'clothing' for women in the gym. Absolutely nothing left to the imagination, that's for sure.
Great music man. Keep up the good work.
You totally tuned that background 😂😂😂😂😂 2:13
I think the place your thoughts went that was weirder was {do you think the people who push the aesthetics aspect of fitness to the extreme by using gear, or using the gym as a medium to attract people to their sexwork content give a shit about the principles of fitness}
and I think it's actually much more likely yes than no depending on the nature of their discourse
Those who use gear can have a positive message about the way people wan use fitness to change their life, become stronger and healthier and more resilient, We can absolutely point out the ones who are making themselves the subject of the content, rather than making fitness the subject with their journey as an inspiration to adhere to the principles
With gym influencers with OF account
it's the exact same, OF becomes an accessory to their main content, capitalising on the subset of followers that follows them because the gym made them hot to watch and not anything else
in a way the OF content is their for the people in their following whom do not care about the fitness principles, or whom are in the know about those principles and do not care if this specific influencers is preaching them or not
And you can have the type who are honestly preaching about what fitness is about, but know their is money to make by having an OF
And the ones who don't really care about fitness and repeat what other people say in order to have an excuse to display themselves because it's a front for their OF to gain traction and get that bread
And for Onlyfans creators whom are using the gym as a place to "display" their bodies in a sexually attractive but public way it's actually trickier to know I think;
because the persona they adopt for their content is not for them to signify any interest or disinterest into the principles of fitness. They could personally use the gym as a way to turn their body into an ornament and nothing else, or they could love the gym and fitness for the same reason most people do : It gets us strong and it feels great and becoming hot is a bonus that helps them make the content they make.
Either way we wouldn't be able to tell.
This ambiguity might not be comfortable for us since we are looking to parce the egocentrics from the people who are looking to inspire and help, but at this point if this is what we're looking for on social media it's also not the kind of people we are going to follow anyway.
People that like attention, find ways to get more attention 🤷♂
I’m still confused on what exactly a sweat is 😩😩😩
Sick of these guys who are clearly a little uncomfortable with degeneracy but are too scared to say anything but "not judging but I've noticed".
Not judging, but I've noticed.
i mean you say yourself that zack's only "a little uncomfortable" - maybe he's just not as mad about it as you are? it seems that the issue he presents is that aggressive sex driven monetization efforts are cannibalizing the fitness space and leaving little room for avg joes. the mainstream "fitness" scene is less about wellness and passion, more about milking dollars by any means necessary. do you want him to call them hooers and ask them to repent? if so, making your own video is an option. let it out man! i'll drop a like 👉🏾👉🏾
Thankyou. I've been squatting every day for 54 day's. Thankyou always.
Do you feel that lunges have too short of a range of motion with long femurs?
Elevate the front leg if it’s an issue.
I personally think lunges have too little of a ROM in general, for everybody
It is imperative the cylinder remains undamaged
is your knee okay
I didnt workout my glutes for me not to show. $3/month.
Merry Christmas ⛄
Zack trail blazing the Fitness to Musician pipeline
Since the 1970s? Dude, why do you think the Olde Thyme Strongmen did private showings?
I like this format 😊
We should start to be more critical about capitalism without the fear of being labeled as a dirty commie so that we can start to think about solutions that can solve these problems instead of just mitigate or as a paleative
What's wrong with capitalism? On a channel about fitness and competition, it's a little befuddling that someone would have qualms about the most competitive economic system in history?
@@AlwaysPeacefulMaDeuce With competition there are losers as well as winners. Economic losers turn to unsavory ways of earning money, OF, etc. Capitalism doesn't allow a common denominator of economic safety for everyone. What's the alternative? Making sure certain things are taken care of regardless if you win or lose. Like medical care. Economic losers should still get medical care. Everyone should get their medical needs met. Unfortunately that is not what capitalism is about (taking care of everyone). So, should we burn it all down? No, we should think creatively about solutions like @Fnijsaka suggests so people don't have to get pushed to do S Work etc to survive. We can look to Europe & other places for creative solutions that allow capitalism to flourish in appropriate ways.
Madisons Flannel
i appreciate this content so much and everything u say is so true and with me. love it and i love this content
I'm down with simple training vids and a bit of thoughts on whatever.
I like the fun fitness content. I think it’s relatable to a lot of us. 🤙✌️
Awkward moment when I only watch Zack because he's hot
He's also nice. Oh wait - niceness makes him more hot. Shit.
Cool workout. The gym looks awesome. Here in germany we only have boring gyms.
Sorry to hear that
discipline and passion, some analogy between music and the sport you love. That would be a good topic.
Unrelated to the topic of the video, but do you plan on doing any Midwest tours in the future for your music?
Zach from fitness to music to NSFW OF. Not shocked tbh
I mean before of it was to the creepy cameraman for his website. the fitness industry has always had it's ties swork. it's very expensive and the type of people that do it a lot of time also want an expensive lifestyle to go with it. not something a 9-5 can provide for
Sigh….another victory for the OG, over the sweats…the imposter is among us
raining the fire raining the fire
6:39 you're the man, Zack!
You're not excited about putting your fitness on youtube? That's a bad thing? Imagine the millions of people who just grind every day in the gym and keep it to themselves.
*watches this video once*
*youtube recommendations are now full of fitness to OF thirst traps*
Thanks 😂
Are you swinging/ using momentum intentionally (for leg raises)? And you are a coach?
Yes. I believe so. They are CrossFit style Toes-To-Bar. The swing makes them a more dynamic movement than a strict version.
Allowing the ability to scale intensity by doing more. Bringing a cardiovascular stimulus into it.
So less of a strict calisthenics ab movement.
@BallisticTech Makes sense!
Honestly it's crazy how much onlyfans has infested almost every subculture huge gear head and I've noticed that the dilemma is true for automotive content it's all just a glorified ad
Everything has always been about sex.. selling it, advertising it, chasing it. The internet has just magnified this fact 100x.
Is the music great for Oly training session?
So how can I get in on this pipeline😅
Simple. Sweat. 👍🏼 keep it up, champ.
I'm not complaining.
I'd love for u to hit up some workouts with fans!
Very decent lunges there Mr Telander.
Maybe you should make the move to Oly Fans.
God your tunes are fire bro
Bro your knees 😭
So could you start your sumo wrestling journey already? You're literally built for the sport my boy, just embrace the bulk and put on the mawashi
A bold move, a bold move indeed 😂
Zach, show some leg! 😂😂😂😂
Bro “sweat” has been around for at least 15 years lol
Im here for the camera angles🤔
I check out the music again when you are screaming into a microphone in falsetto.
More Zack is always better!
What was the point of this video, you told us water is wet. Thanks
It’s my channel so I talk about the things that I want to. Hope this helps
Oh boy
NGL I was looking for your link.
Just fyi, "sweat" isnt a new term, it became popular at least by the hayday of fortnite (2018) 🤓☝🏾
Zack, I am a Day One fan of your content. Your technique videos fueled my own desire to learn Olympic weightlifting. However, I think the Fitness to Only Fans Pipeline would bother you only if you do not see the results of your efforts. Meaning, if you put in all the work and yet your body does not look aesthetic.
This video sounds like a rant to me. Plenty of big-name Fitness influencers have not gone the Only Fans route.
Glad to hear you are doing music definitely have to check that out.
Interesting bait for the hook. I enjoy listening to your thoughts Zack.
I like the fitness to music pipeline
That was a great video
Lol Zack sounding old AF talking about sweats
LINK NOW
When's the Sturgill Simpson colab coming?
A job is sweaty bruh
Jesse Ventander thumbnail lol.
What about the Onlyfans to Fitness Pipeline?
I don’t know why I’m getting this recommended to me but it feels targeted considering some of the girlies I spend my free time with 😅. Oh nvm, it’s not about the dude, still a good and informative vid tho.
So... where's the link?
you gotta stop smashing your knees like that
These people that finish off the next addon/expansion the first 48hs it comes out are as old as video games. It's funny that it triggers you, being a weightlifter, someone who's goal is to put more weight on the bar. These guys do the same - they wanna see what's possible. How fast can they finish the new expansion. How much weight can you snatch ? I see no difference. It's also a bubble. The casual gamers don't care one bit about these guys. The average gym goer doesn't know who Karlos Nassar is. Most often it's the guys who have that competitive itch themselves who get triggered by the 48h powergamer dudes because, first of all, these guys most often don't do it alone, you need quite a team to pull it off. Secondly, it's is, without discussion quite a feat. So often on some sublevel it is envy that leads on the surface to "nah man... can't relate to those guys..." while you can almost smell the sweat of the competitive spirit you so long to find again yet can't seem to, whilst those guys have it. That onlyfans thing is a different topic alltogether...
Hit the nail on the head imo. Tryhards push the limits and often casual gamers benefit from community discoveries in those spaces (e.g. soul dupes or shortcuts being found by dark souls 1 speedrunners). If you then use those things in a casual playthrough, are you then a sweat? Do people not in-the-know get jealous of knowledge? They absolutely do and they can suck it up.
The most freeing mindset I've come into with gaming in my late 20s after being one of those tryhards for the better part of my life is that it's absolutely okay to be suboptimal if you're having fun. I used to be an optimisation limit pusher Andy, and when it comes to gym I absolutely am still a sweaty tryhard. But with gaming I don't feel a need to fling shit at those who are doing what I either can't or won't, because I remember that I was there being a sweaty little gremlin once upon a time and it was a blast.
tldr people are sourpusses and often succumb to tall poppy syndrome. Especially when it comes to things they're passionate about but might not have all the time in the world to do. Also, sometimes people like to think they're competitive but really just like winning. If someone is reading this and realises they're like that, they should try just letting go and vibing out in their own way. No need to constantly compare and criticise. And it's absolutely okay to be suboptimal and enjoy it :)
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