Does SOCIAL MEDIA even know what FITNESS is?
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- Bit of a rant on social media's idea of what is fit and healthy and also details of Hyrox, my new sporting challenge for January 😁💪🏃🏻♂️
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"When I was a kid, bodybuilding was bodybuilding, it wasn't regarded as the peak manifestation of health and fitness". Absolutely spot on.
When I said to people that you don't need that much of muscles and abs to be healthy, people got mad
True enough. I've recently got into body-building in my late 30s and I'm loving it. But I'm very clear that ultimately I'm training to look good and also get some solid long-term health benefits from reduced fat and stronger musculature. It's not a training regime for outstanding athletics performance, and I'm OK with that. Happy to leave doing 2 hour marathons to the skinny boys and girls who have made that their priority.
Yeah bodybuilding is certainly not healthy. Weightlifting is great, but bodybuilding is not.
@@aesyamazeli8804 Recreational bodybuilding (without the use of drugs or stepping on stage) is actually quite healthy, it's just not appealing to people as it takes a shitload of work for minimal results compared to pro bodybuilders.
@@aesyamazeli8804 You are thinking about drugs. Otherwise there is nothing unhealthy about it, you just life weights and eat food in a systematic way.
As one fitness coach stated. "Going hardcore isn't how many reps you can do at one time. Or how heavy you're lifting is. It's going for a walk everyday. Or the 80-year-old woman who's been swimming everyday for the past 30 years. That's hard core."
I'm saving this as a reminder for myself when I get too caught up on stats. Thank you 😊
@canthemum The definition of Hardcore:
•The most active, committed, or strict members of a group or movement.
•Highly committed in one's support for or dedication to something.
There is nothing that states going hardcore means until you burnout. Hardcore means dedication, like there are hardcore fans because they are dedicated. Going hardcore means you are strictly dedicated.
So the 80-year-old woman who has been swimming everyday for the past 30 is hardcore.
That's a great insight. Consistency over time beats intensity in the short term every time.
Yeah, hardcore is consistency.
Exactly right.
According to Dr. Stephen Seiler, a leading sports and exercise physiologist, consistency is fundamental to physical fitness. It beats out volume or intensity. Lack of consistency is the single biggest obstacle most people have to meeting physical fitness goals.
Social Media & Fitness..... ring light, posing, selfies, thingy spandex wearables, zero sweating, and yeah WTF.... you're absolutely spot on, people need to see and wake up to more of this.
You forgot steroids
@@dislikebutton7834 I AM ON STEROIDS AND EVEN I CANNOT COMPETE WITH PHTOTSHOP
Every time I see a reflection of one of those ring lights I think, yup narcissist.
And a Gymshark sponsorship. You can't be a TH-cam fitness influencer if you're wearing Adidas.
“50% of fitness is lighting, and the other 50% is the light filter on Instagram.” - Dom Mazetti.
This really hits the nail on the head. A big turning point for my relationship with my body was someone telling me to focus on all the things your body can DO as a measure of fitness rather than the way your body LOOKS. Focusing on building strength, running faster, running longer made me much happier and fitter than focusing on getting abs.
yup! thats the tried and true way to think about it, i can do 20+ pullups straight but i look nowhere near a "IG fitness model"
Ok..... I think it just depends on what you are going for. A bodybuilder is not the same as a powerlifter. If your focus is on looking good and helping other people look good that's totally different then Pure Fitness. The problem is when people substitute one for the other. One is not better than the other oh, it's just where your focus lies.
@@hawaiiangunner sure but I was talking about my experience 👍
@@machism.a I come from both worlds. I'm 50 now. In my younger days, I Was a state record holder in Olympic lifting, boxer then mma. These are all about performance not looks. Now that my body has been destroyed I can no longer perform anywhere near at the level I was. So now I just focus in on looks. Because that's all I'm capable of doing. I'm just happy when I see people exercising at all. Whether it's for looks or for fitness I'm just glad to see people getting up off of the couch and doing something. I see way too many Bonbon and Pringle Warriors.
My coming to this was when I was 1o working in a corrections/rehab facility where handling violent altercations was a constant occurrence.
I quickly learned that I didn't need to be bigger or "stronger" ... I needed to be faster, more flexible and have a bottomless gas tank.
I used to take my clients to the in house gym twice a week, just so I coukd track their gains and modify my own accordingly but the high point was listening to the young tuff guys mock me for benching so little. Meanwhile the clients who had been in it with me a few times would stfu and chuckle.
Bodybuilding, or at least the idea of being "jacked", "swole", "shredded" etc got me into exercise in general as a 17 year old. What really shook me was when my cousin, who wasn't even into fitness, invited me out for a 5k run and I almost died. I felt absolutely pathetic and moreover idiotic that I'd fooled myself into thinking I had any athletic ability just because I'd put on a few kilos of muscle. After that I found crossfit and, say what you will about the culty-ness of it and some of the less well thought out exercises, it was in general great for in terms of shifting my goals from looking a certain way to actual athletic ability. I don't do crossfit anymore but I've kept that mindset of blending strength training, traditional cardio, and hiit, with actual sports, hikes up mountains open water swims etc. Much more enjoyable and life affirming lifestyle if you ask me and definitely much better for your health and longevity.
I thought this was going in a different direction when I read "crossfit"
It depends on fitness
Let’s put bodybuilding to the side
You can have endurance or strength as a measure of fitness. Some are both.
That's very similar to my fitness tale
@@duckymomo7935very true, but what about agility? Speed / power? Even flexibility? There are loads of measures of fitness so to me real athleticism/fitness is about having a good blend of all of them, even if you excel in some more than others. My main point was just that bodybuilding and fitness modelling, aren't about actually improving your body in any of the parameters of fitness, it's purely about aesthetics, which is fine but isn't actual fitness, and I don't think it's a healthy mindset in the same way that trying to get super skinny isn't either.
I ran for a few miles with a 70 year old man from Saskatchewan in the Buffalo Marathon some years ago, but he left me around mile 20 and ended up besting me by 10-15 minutes. And that was my marathon PR.
It's uplifting and inspiring to see people who, in your mind, shouldn't be ahead of you getting after it like that.
My grumbly math teacher with type 1 diabetes ran an ironman at 62. That was an experience, left for two weeks to Hawaii and came back with amazing stories about an exotic place halfway across the globe and him doing not too bad. I still see him out running, biking or swimming whenever I'm home, almost 10 years later. Absolutely inspiring.
This version of "fitness" is creating so much body disphoria and eating disorders in men. I'm looking into it for my psychology thesis because i keep finding men bringing their secret suffering to me full of shame and it's like you are an above average athlete but the look of an (edited and facetuned) instagram posed photo is derailing their self value it's awful
Exactly. This has frustrated me for a long ass time. There is so much support when it comes to women’s bodies, but men get criticized heavily if they don’t maintain shredded abs all the time. It’s ridiculous
@@tylerrose4416 I don’t know in what world you live in, but men impose those high standards on themselves. I, as well as numerous other women, do like some muscle mass on a guy but he really does not need to be shredded. Actually, I once touched an extremely shredded guy and it felt weird to me
@@ClaireEmilia I did not say that a certain group of people imposed that on men. Just the fact that many men go through life thinking that the masculine look is being muscular is extremely damaging. If someone likes you because you have abs and bicep veins, they are not your friend
@@ClaireEmilia its not so much as women that impose the standards, rather its society as a whole. the point of this conversation is that the fitness world view is skewed as to what a fit person and realistic standards are for each individual; not for what women find sexy or desire a man to look like. believe it or not, womens opinions arent the only one that get upholded.
@@ClaireEmilia How is that any different from women imposing insane beauty standards on each other? Which we do. It still sucks and is bad for mental health. There's absolutely no difference so I don't understand why you brought it up
For some reason, I have always retained the four components of fitness from my grade school curriculum:
Muscular strength
Muscular endurance
Cardiovascular
Flexibility
It's probably several decades out of date by now, but these categories still help keep fitness influencers in perspective. Muscle size doesn't make it on the list, though of course it is correlated with a few components.
My trainer has said the worst thing for the fitness industry are fitness magazines for both men and women. I think he'd agree social media is right there too.
Magazines are not really effective anymore i guess. Instagram is such a short lived but powerful tool to drill the "you gotta look like this to be cool" mantra to anyone that buys into it that it's amazing how people end up thinking that a bodybuilder on substances is actually healthy and that anyone else that works out for any other discipline and has a different body is not cool at all.
yeah social media is literally magazines on steroids, “pop” information and heavy reliance on visuals and sponsorship
Great video! I’m 33, I’ve been lifting weights and other general exercise since I was 15.
I’m naturally a pretty skinny dude, however through lifting and proper dieting I put on some significant muscle mass.
However I never focused on being fit. Just bigger, always just bigger.
It’s not until now, at 33, am I focused on my range of motion, endurance, flexibility and a general healthy feeling body. I wish I would have been on this path since day one.
As an Ironman i never understood why people just train for looks. Being actually fit feels amazing.
So many guys are bulky as f and cannot even get a larger stair up without running out of breath 😳
Kinda pathetic
Well the grass is always greener on the other side. If you did go that route from day 1, maybe you'd regret not being as big as possible. But that said, assuming you're natural, it's not hard to reach your max in terms of muscle mass while maintaining a respectable level of fitness in other areas
lol im kinda similar..
but also not..
im 34 now and have lifted since 10 years..
im also a bit on the bulkier side, to say it nice xD
got good muscles but im a little to high in bodyfat..
i always wanted to look like arnie as he said in the video lol, always get bigger..
now im also more into the calisthenics and flexi and beeing fit.
yeah mate some things would have been good to know decades ago, but at least we know it now.
better late than never, right!? ;)
keep on grinding ;)
I'm a skinny dude who's run a few ultras with over 6000m of elevation gain. My feelings about the english-speaking "fitness" world are pretty much the same as what's expressed in the video. I think that bodybuilding and weightlifting are entirely respectable activities (except for the drugs, almost no other sport normalizes them nearly as much, for good reason), which are good for health when done reasonably, but I just don't like them being equated to fitness. It becomes especially ridiculous with guys who get so big that they can barely do anything without getting out of breath. How can you possibly be considered fit when your heart can barely pump enough blood through your body to keep it functional?
they don't even have to do anything to get out of breath....many of them have sleep apnea
Sleep apnea and being out of breath from extremely minor exercise are 2 very different things
thing is: those who get that big ARE the ones on the PEDs ('drugs'). The body is not such a flawed mechanism, and a natural bodybuilder or weight lifter (who did not take drugs or over-optimise the diet) would naturally end up fit, never reaching unnatural proportions or putting unnatural strain on the body.
Most people who lift weights, also do cardio 1-3 times a week. Not the same as a professional runner, but most weight lifters are athletic, even the 'big' ones.
As they say, it all comes down to what a person's goals are. Some people just want to look good. The majority (like me) just want to be strong and fit, and not be fat. A few, such as yourself, are the ones who train for *specific* things. Like you train for running, and some of the big guys train to compete in power lifting or body building competitions, while yet more will train for various sports etc.
how much can your heart pump when its pulling 1.25x of your own body weight? (Which isn't intermediate level at all).
Also many long distance runners with zero muscle that look emaciated and can't lift for shit.
Thank you for nailing it with your rant! I'm a 60yr old woman that enjoys strength training and rowing. The only women I see on Instagram in the fitness category are as you described and I always back away and feel kind of embarrassed. Not for myself but for these beautiful women who are selling themselves for likes, advertising and the like. I use and post to Instagram too but just for fun or to share that I did this on the rower or did a workout when my brain wanted me to eat cheeseburgers. And if there's a product or service I actually like, I'll sometimes give them a recommendation. Not for any other reason than I liked their stuff or service. I also post cute cat photos and what new thing I've learned how to cook. I'm not super strong, I have freaking balance issues and walk with a walker or cane. But I love my home gym and it's probably saved my life many times over. Thank you for saying what I've been thinking for so long. It's now January and I don't know if you've done the Hydrox yet but boy does it look A) INTERESTING and B) Tough! I hope you did/do well! So cool to see Concept 2 rowing and ski ergs in the mix. Cheers!
I'm all for admiring great physiques...but when did that become "fitness" in the eyes of anyone starting out? Am I just too old and moany? 🤣 EDIT: And stop asking where the T shirt is from - Jen buys them for December, I have no idea 🎄 😂
No, I also find this notion of "fitness" being basically a term to describe people who look good very irritating. As you said: If those Instagram people were faced with any actual sport - be it running, swimming, cycling, martial arts, anything involving a ball, hell.. even gymnastics - they'd get smoked by all the skinny (or skinnier at least) athletes whose job doesn't involve shaving their chests.
Completely agree. I think the word used to be more tied to cardiovascular capacity, whereas now it covers anyone who lifts a weight but nothing else
Maybe a little bit, but i get where your coming from. Social media is more of a popularity contest then to actually do something.
The same could be said about "life hacks" or other channels that show DIY, nothing you will actually do but great to look at.
For me the older i get the more i look for actual depth and not that shallow (that's why i stumbled upon your channel).
Thanks for this rant. I'm not very aesthetically pleasing and what irks me is when ppl get MAD at me in the gym for crushing it but not looking ""fit"", because they come in to film and show off compared to a "lazy unfit big person" and then get embarrassed. It didn't happen as much when i started in the gym but the lookie-lucy types have somehow increased soo much in the past few years
I hear you ! I naturally have a short torso and long arms ... so weird looking , no abs . But I can run 20km non stop and do 5 pull ups with only finger tips (I'm a girl
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People are surprised when I kick their asses at the gym
When I was still in highschool, all my friends were saying we should start lifting. I went to the route of cardio and endurance. And whenever it came to every exercise tests in Gym class (Push-up, sit-up, crunches,pull-up, sprints, 1 mile run, and rope climb), I've either maxed it out or comparable score with the jocks. I didn't look athletic, fit and muscular like the jocks, but I was on par with them.
Sooo true! I've always loved weights, from starting training for rugby and now for balance, longevity and the harder jobs in the garden! As a farmers son, finess was being able to do 10hrs hard work then get up and do it day after day. But physique was an outcome not a target. In my 40s did a few tough ultras and 5x Tough Guy, always beaten by the fitter and tougher old lady, heavy bloke, skinny old man, etc, etc. Real fitness does not have an instagram pose!
That was a refreshing take on it. Coming from the Ironman side of things, I accidentally bumped into one of the founding members who originally franchised a number of the Ironman events, who told me (before the pandemic) that Ironman was on the decline because there were too many other events where people could get their "epic selfie" at, without nearly as much training or hard work. That always struck me. But I think it's true... people more often than not just want to look epic these days. As a sidetone, I ran 400km in October, and just before the end of the month decided to squeeze in an additional 100km ultra because I thought if you could do one without any training, then surely I could... and had a blast! So thanks! :)
Is this a slam at Tough Mudder? 😆
“Hang on a minute, I’m still getting annoyed... five more minutes.” That’s probably the most British sentence I’ve heard all day.
I had this unhealthy expectation for almost a decade. I'm 30 now and I've realized that kind of body isn't possible for me no matter how much I hit the gym. I fell for all the natty bodybuilding motivating me to be like them and get "healthy aka jacked". Then one by one they all turned out to be on Juice. Even hodgetwins were on juice. So now I focus on actual health and fitness. Social media is to blame for all of this.
They are all on steroids. All of them.
Yes!!! Love this video “that’s a girl meltdown” 😂 I needed this video, reminds me that more than half the shit online is fake!! I will never look like that I have had 4 kids and was pretty active for a long time until I felt so overwhelmed by the unachievable… currently trying to get out of my year long funk, slowly but surely pulling my head out of my ass lol so thank u for this video!! Love the shirt by the way!!
oh its way more than half of it lmfao almost all of it is fake
Say whatever you want but all things are not fake because when you see those girls in real life they really look good and beautiful because of their genetics and training
@@fighterinmkiwiscience3517 most are airbrushed or using filters
@@marick791i am talking about real life
First of all Sabrina, THANKS for being a mom!! And 4 kids, wow!! That takes courage, and a laundry-list of other adverbs. My suggestion; stop looking at the filtered, photo-shopped, posers...forever...and build the body, and the level of fitness that YOU want. Figure out how to make it fun, silly, and challenging, and your brain will keep being rewarded, and keep wanting to go have more fun. Take your time so that it's all very feasible, comes at a good pace, and you don't get injured, especially early on. Mark's methods here; pushing, re-evaluating, having a lot of fun, wrecking himself, dialing it back, doing fun/silly/crazy/ridiculous stuff, signing up for events and pushing towards them, is really just about the best example of how to do this. He doesn't take himself seriously, but he does. He's willing to crash-and-burn. He makes it all fun and challenging. He gives no f*cks about what others are doing (as seen in this vid). Side note: the example you will set for your kids, will be very impactful!
You’re so right! TH-cam fitness is such a dangerous rabbit hole which can so distort what our fitness goals should be. I’m starting now to pivot towards a mindset where I want to be happy, healthy, strong and flexible, and able to pursue the sport I enjoy without worrying about new muscle mass or how much extra calories I have to slam down.
100% agree. I also find it wierd that so many feel like foods other than meat have no purpose in a human diet. I'm no vegan, but I would be in a sorry state if I didn't eat vegetables.
Wow Mark thank you! I am a 46 year old dad who a couple years ago started training again after 20 years. Being out of shape I went online and was overhelm by the information. It actually made it harder for me to train since I was constantly stressed out about how I should train and if I was doing the right sets, eating correct. I was a runner before I got kids but when I started training again all videos said "no running. You won't lose fat, it will lost your muscle building" etc. Having GAD (general anxiety disorder) it was hard to process all this information and left my not running and feeling like I was doing the correct thing at the gym. Seeing this video made me get my old runners shoes on and tomorrow I be at the gym just lifting weights knowing it's good for me. Thank you again!
You are so very right frighteningly right in fact. Keep up the great work and I am finding plenty of inspiration from watching your channel, this is what social media should be about.
Well said! I’m 57 and when i was in my 20s and 30s i looked up to the older men that were still fit and at the gym. Now I am the older guy and have had young guys say they want to be like me when they are my age. Take what social media says with a grain of salt! I admire and respect what you said and i know after a good bloody rant i feel better….do you feel better now? I thought you were ones of these fly by night guys on here that thinks they are the next fitness god but i can see your down to earth and use common sense. I have subscribed to your channel now. Looking forward to seeing and hearing more.
I just discovered your channel. Your direct reasonableness is refreshing and infectious. Thank you and cheers.
Good one Mark. Some chuckles over breakfast down under with the rant and very true. No social media when grew up and played a lot of squash. Nowhere to hide when coach telling you to run faster, hit harder/smarter and recover. As for Zwift, will have to follow you and see if we end up in a Crit one time so you can tow me around the course! Have a good break.
Great video! Social media is bad for several reasons but I’m glad to see that there are some creators like yourself to are balancing the scales. Keep it up 👏
What a great discussion! Fantastic perspective and reality check for anyone who strives to lead an athletic lifestyle.
Great rant. Loved your (often witty) comments on what constitutes fitness in the 21st century. Keep up the useful and provocative reflective thoughts and opinions. So necessary to give a sober insight on health and it’s meaning in a world dominated by money grabbing multi media. So necessary to keep a perspective.
Funnily enough, the pandemic pushed me on the running and feeling fit route.
Before that, I was another “social media fit” person too and after dropping some excessive muscle mass on my legs and being able to run faster and longer now, I am still coming to terms with how unfit I just was before the pandemic.
Mark, your a prophet. Fantastic Content as always. Showing this to my friends , keep up the good work!
I’ve watched three or four of your videos after YT algorithm recommended this channel.
But THIS is the video that made me subscribe.
Like your approach to sharing positive messages relevant to real people in real life to real situations.
Keep it up 👍🏻
As a track follower, I couldn't help watching Jake Paul's Challenger Games a few years ago out of morbid curiosity. What I found extremely ironic was that there were plenty of "fitness influencers" participating, yet they struggled to do something as simple as running around a track. They had no fitness at all.
Thanks … that was a darn fine rant !!! I also agree with you on “what is fitness” now .. Find something that gets you moving and enjoy it ….
“No man has the right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training. It is a shame for a man to grow old without seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable.”
― Socrates
Overcome your shadow, and get out of your cave!
- Plato (Probably)
I agree fully - thanks for making this rant!
I like your content dude. I'm 43 and got into fitness 18 months ago, and for a good portion of that time I've been wading through all the fitness bs to try and make sense of it all. So grateful I'm now finding some real shit to inspire me. Cheers 😊
Thank you for commenting on that theme, I think nowadays socialmedia pushes the definition of fitnes in the wrong direction and we should try to steer the definition of fitness in a healthy direction again!
Thank you for your nice and content, I'am exited on upcoming content!
Greetings from Germany
Glad I'm found your channel mate, thanks for you videos
Now this, is a video i love!!
Thank you sir! Nailed it!!
You brought tears of joy to my eyes. Spot on! :)
This was the most refreshing video I have ever watched. Thank you, Sir!
You won my subscription today. Great video mate.
Love this! Good luck to Jen for next year.
I just found your channel and this video hits it right on the head. Unfortunately social media has completely changed what "fitness" is. I have been riding/racing bikes for 20+ years and have always had great respect for men and women who are older than me and can kick my ass is a race.
This message is critical and this video should be played to every middle school and high school kid on the planet. I am 38 and trying to get myself into some sort of shape again and also started to follow some 'fitness' people on social media and it was SO discouraging and took me nearly a year to convince myself that it should all be ignored and just keep going on my rower.
This is excellent commentary 👌🏿
You've got a great & cheeky sense of humor!
I loved this, sportsmanship is beautiful, I feel the same when an older person runs past me, humbles right the f* down. And running is for the heart 💓. Also I genuinely think there is less of this obsession in the UK, it's very much so an american thing.
This is really great stuff. Funny, smart, informative.
Great videos! I just finished going through the full lot of them. And with this one, I am right there with you, social media really doesn't know fitness. Social media knows how to sell nonsense! But that race coming up, sounds like a lot of fun. 1k runs and do some fun tasks in between! I might need to search that out over here in the US, when I'm healthy again. Cheers!
Fair play on going through all the videos. That’s tougher work than Hyrox 😂
I was born in the 80s and I really giggled at your comment about “girls beating you”, as I grew up with a big brother who hated it when I beat him at 100m sprint hehe. I’d just discovered this vid and it was so nice to find a normal, relatable fitness person on TH-cam, whose also funny! Can’t wait to watch more of your content Mark!
I needed this today. Tomorrow I add running backing in. Running is life.
Yes, yes…HELL YES!! Thats why I love your videos!
Love the rant! You are very on point! Sometimes genetics will limit the image.
This was great man, thanks for sharing your perspective on this. Keep it up! God bless you and your wife :)
Mark, i'll kmow you are truly channeling '80's fitness when i see you in leg warmers. Brilliant rant, spot on.
Dusting off my leotard now 😂
Nice thoughts Mark. Growing up in the 1980s too, yeah, fitness sure has changed over the past two decades. Exercise and fitness have become quite different when viewed in the Social Media Realm...
Couldn't have worded your rant better!
You’re a funny guy,Mark…but more importantly,you’re athletic advice (in particular running) is really good..keep the videos coming💪🙂👍
Truth! Thanks for calling it out!
I love the rant! Looking forward to your footage of the Hyrox event. Sounds like fun! Subscribed btw.
Cheers!
Mark, this was a superb rant - right up my street! Subbed!
Thank you Mark, this is very meaningful! I started my fitness journey almost four years ago and I am very very consistent and active! However, there are many moments that I wonder why I don't look like 'fit men' that we see in the media? This video is very helpful, thank you!
amazing words man. Sad what social media is doing, I totally agree
Lmfao 🤣 went sledging as a kid. Love the vid. Keep up the good work. The event looks awesome.
I can relate 100% to your rant, loved it & subscribed! 😁 45yo, working out 365 days a year, also grew in the 80's😂 Greetings from Bulgaria 👊🏼
Great video! Completely agree!
I enjoyed your real talk. Subscribed.
Good luck with the challenges! Brilliant fun. :-0
Great rant Mark. Totally agree with your comments.
Really nice insight. I know many guys in my gym that have hard time climbing stairs. Big, buffed, oxygen demanding machines 😁
As someone who grew up with this generation’s idea of fitness, I totally agree!! It’s like most people my age are aware it’s fake yet everyone still wants to look a certain way even if it means they’re less fit. It’s definitely made it hard for me as someone trying to become healthier overall and not just to look like the influencers on instagram.
Mate just found your channel recently I am a bit older than you 54 but have always valued fitness couldn’t agree more than the points you make here
“Never used one before but went sledging as a kid” nearly killed me 😂🤣
Love this. You're absolutely spot on. (Love women runners too, especially the ones that are faster than me).
First video of yours I've seen. Makes sense. I'm just trying to get healthy so I don't get hurt at work. If I happen to start looking better, it's just a bonus.
Makes some actually honesty to the scene. I wish you the best of your abilities in the future.
3:21 onwards the self awareness 🙌 great video, thanks so much
thank you. i'm also tired of couch potatoes thinking they are the epitome of fitness for having a round bottom or a 6pack despite awful performance or cyclists being called "weak" for not having huge arms despite 5w/kg FTP
So true and also worth noting that there is no snobbery in cycling either!
@@YabbaDadADo cycling is extremely snobbish, elitist and toxic to noobs. i love it
@@Carftymk I'm surprised you had the strength in your arms to type such a long response :)
@@YabbaDadADo im some sort of a miracle cyclist, my arms are somehow bigger than average
@@Carftymk Both arms? Be honest now!
Thanks for saying this. Spot on.
Great Video couldnt agree more!!! i was that body builder type work out guy back in the day .. had no cardio and carried more fat with me than now .. although all i do now is zwift ;) would love to see you in one of the Herd Races (winter series has short races
You are spot on! Also, extra kudos for getting Daley Thompson and Brian Jacks in there :D
I am single handily keeping 80’s fitness alive and well 😂😂
Love this! 👍🏻 I run marathons, often for charity, and base my goals on my times and what I want to achieve. When close to the yearly marathon season I get a body progressively closer to that of Mo Farah… it’s a rare thing for someone to said ‘wow, Mo’s got a hot bod!’ (Sorry Mo!) but the fitness gains drive me, and the appearance is a consequence (I do do some weights as I don’t want to be that slender mind you!🤣)
Very good video on the first part and good luck on the crossfit competition. My guess you will do 1:17. I always shoot for an odd number and people ask me how i came up with this. I tell them i have my own formulas. This avoids me to quote 1:30 as a target. Also your comments about the instagram runners was very accurate. I am surprised that you only received only 10% of positive kudos from all the views. I could only assume the other 90% did not understand or were not in agreement. Continue the great inspiring work.
Thank you for creating this. It’s not a projection it’s a healthy observation
Love your thoughts on this!
Keeping it real -awesome vid! Also love ‘The Bioneer’, Kneesovertoesguy, Bodyweight Warrior, less asthetics, More Athletics! 😎💪👍
Love you videos Mark. Daley Thompson was one of my athletic heroes too!
Fully understand the "woman beating me" type thing, however, had two experiences that resolved that...
(1) As an 18 or 19 y.o. I turned up for the local "Plum Pudding Plod" (10K run on Boxing Day) to find Liz Lynch / McColgan lining up with us for the gun... it was the last time I saw her!
(2) In my late-20's I used to do the FNB/Investec marathons in Jo'burg, South Africa (ultra-marathon courses run by teams of amateurs). Was through 2K in under 4:30 (it was mostly down hill) but then had to watch as a young woman pulled away from me on a brutal 1K uphill slog about one and a half k's from the end of our 7.4K leg....
Humbling.
Spot on. Subscribed!
Right on man. Very astute observation.
Thank you very much for touching on this.
Love your rant.
Top rant and totally on point 👏🏻
This was healthy and good talk.
Yesterday I coincidently googled if running would make my gym experience go to waste. Silly. It probably came from the mindset of "needing to be big". But now I don't care, I love being healthy and love fitness/sports, so running, football etc. + gym it is me.
Fantastic video!
Thank you Mark for keeping it real.
Loved this rant, completely congruent with my view of today’s skewed fitness industry.
Just found this channel. I totally agree with you, such a good choise of words. 4:15 love it. Greetings from Germany
Hyrox looks insane to me. All the best .... You will give it your all!