The Dark Side of Fitness: Muscle Hustle Culture 

The Olympics also one of them.

i feel bad for Gen Z. They spend tons of time on social media where tons of "natty" social media influencers claim you can gain 50 pounds of lean muscle in 6 months by eating nothing but chicken breast, broccoli, and rice. They've also got even more unrealistic movie stars on TV than millennials or Gen X. Hugh Jackman and some other stars have passed out because they have to starve themselves and then dehydrate themselves to beef jerky for shirtless scenes and it can take days of prep to film a single scene and even then they've got hours to get multiple takes before they get too weak to stand and he and most other actors claim they get that fit with pretty conventional diets and they post fake workout routines to make themselves seem more approachable and more normal.

horrifically amazing!

how about recovery for bad injuries I feal like there's is a healthy balance

He is fantastic and I have learned a lot from this channel. The young you tube "influences" are all flash and no substance.

He is very annoying. My team thinks most people get sick of him very quickly. He’s also humorless.

​@@ericB3444cool story bro

​@@ericB3444yeah well my team thinks he's cool and thinks you stink

Your team ,speaks volumes.he speaks sense , clearly based on learned educated experience..rather listen to him who talks to u rather than to you.keep up the good content 👍

Fully agree. I didn’t have a clue that you could improve yourself that much when I was in my 20s. But once I hit 30 and started educating myself about the topic and taking training/diet/rest seriously, it only took about 3 solid years (on top of sporadic training throughout adulthood) to get a physique that looks very similar to what he displays here. Having good role models is so important to give you direction and make good choices. There’s definitely other RU-vidrs like Alex Leonidas, Natural Hypertrophy, and GVS that give incredible information and examples to follow

As much as he inspires you this dude got good genes and great training and diet. Don’t be disappointed if you don’t end up looking close to him lol

Achievable definitely, with a healthy view on training. Focus on health and fitness vs just training for "looks." Health and fitness is a lifetime goal, the look can come and go. Adam is a breath of fresh air in a industry which seems full of drugs, lies and you tubers who know nothing.

Wanna know what wasn't natural? That nose thing. Wtf was that?

@@greenarrow219 Absolutely, I've even found when I only cared about strength and fitness while staying lean my physique improved dramatically as a byproduct

Physical pension! Love it! That said, I really need to sort out my financial pension 😅

The reason why people need financial pensions is because they don’t have thier health when they get old. All they can do is sit around in pain watching T.V. My evolutionary psychology teacher has a phrase “animals don’t retire.” There is a well known link between mental health decline and “irresponsible” retirement. It’s like putting a wild animal in a cage ant taking care of all it’s needs. That is not how it is designed to function. It has instincts and it won’t be well unless it is getting to act in accordance with them. People retire with nothing to do. And when you remove the need to go interact with the world many of them lose purpose or even the will to live. They are simply not that happen sitting around all day doing nothing. So you should be sure you have a replacement in place before you remove your need to participate in life. Retirement is just another modern unhealthy concept like junk food, lack of physical activity, and chronic psychological stress.

Also structuring your life so that it is more physically demanding is useful. My table is a foot off the ground (like in traditional Japan). My bed is a Japanese futon on top of a layer of yoga mats. I only sit in a chair the normal way when I’m driving. Basically you won’t lose the ability to deep squat or sit on the floor or get down and up off the floor if that’s how you live. People use modern furniture as a crutch to degrade and become literally nonfunctional. At some point you stop training as a sport and you start training for health and function. Ultimately strength needs to serve movement. Deadlifting for deadlifting sake isn’t what it’s about. Being able to sit on the floor and play a board game when you’re 20 and 30 and 50 and 70 and 90 is what it’s about.

True! Crazy training on your channel garageman keep going old man👊

I don't know why people are spreading this erroneous idea. Comparing ourselves to others is just what it means to be human, whether you like it ir not. Our brain is wired to look for patterns in literally everything and make comparisons. So you are basically suggesting people be something else, not humans? Good luck with that.🤣 Also you simply cannot know how good you are relative to the rest of population/your neighbours, friends, etc if you live in your own bubble. Of course, it's silly to compare yourself to world-class athletes but why souldn't you be striving to be better than (or as good as) other amateurs? What's wrong with that? Let's imagine a hypothetical situation. You can do one pull-up now, after a year of training you still can only do 3 pull-ups. Well, you can say that you are making a lot of progress, 200% increase on your previous result... But if you start looking for information on how other semi pro athletes train and inadvertently comparing yourself to them you might find that what you've been doing is a big waste of time and if you want to succeed you need to copy at least some aspects of those guys' training. Then in a year you can compare yourself to them again and see if you are doing ok or not. See, most of the time you need to compare yourself to others and seek their advice, if you don't have any feedback and the yardstick by which your measure success is you and only you , then what you've achieved can be in fact a failure, not a success. And the worst thing is that you won't even know that.

​@ithinkthereforeitalk935 i think who and what you're comparing yourself to, aswell as how you're comparing yourself is the issue.

Comparing yourself to yourself is also a big problem though. Struggling to achieve a goal you've peaked at in the past is worse than not being bigger than Chris Bumstead.

I think it’s better to understand what makes a human brain like something, dislike something, or be apathetic. The error comes in what you misunderstand this. You like what benefits you. You dislike what harms you. You are apathetic towards neutral things. This how brains work because there is an infinite amount of things to focus on and you need selective attention. Most things are neutral. You should completely ignore most things. If neutral things enter your attention your attitude should be apathy. You should not care one way or the other. So armed with that basic knowledge people should compartmentalism thier goals. A man likes it when he gets his deadlift up to 405. He likes it because it benefits him. He makes a mistake called egocentric bias when he thinks that OTHER people will like it too. It doesn’t benefit other people nor does it harm them. Therefore we should expect other people to NOT CARE about our physique. See how that logic works. If you want to benefit other people then leave yourself out of it and do what’s good for them. If you do what’s good for you then don’t expect anyone else to care. This is why on Fight Club, Brad Pitt says “self improvement is mastuerbation.” It benefits you and you’re the only one who cares. Benefit others when you want to please others. Benefit yourself when you want to please yourself. Do not conflate the two. Other people are not aspects of yourself. They are separate egos. It’s called theory of mind. And humans are supposed to develop it around age three but we seem to carry this ego bias the rest of our lives. The more narcissistic you are the worse it is.

Wholesome was the word that came to my mind well said!

This channel is wholesome

I'm a fun guy... 😶

To add nuance to this, if people applied their physique goal logic to other feats of physicality, it would become clear that the majority of us will STILL not be in the top 1 %, even when taking shortcuts. Most won't sprint as fast as Bolt or swim as fast as Phelps, even when using PEDs. It's weird that most people don't realize that the top physiques on YT and SoMe platforms are the equivalent of being exposed to the elite specimens in sports.

I think it is unfair how much responsibility we attribute singularly, in many issues. Whilst iti s true that fake naturals have been dishonest, and are thus doing something bad, it is still true that if from the beginning your goal was to be the best you possible, to be teh healthiest you possible, it would not affect you at all whether orn ot others are big. Or if they are more ''shapely''. You cannot develop these neuroses without you, yourself, being envious. That too is a failing.

@@FridgemaxxedHybridoreanLiftai think youre on to to something and i hate you for it. thanks!

@@FridgemaxxedHybridoreanLiftaVery good point! I think we could all use some self insight

The first thing you do if you want a good physique is eat healthy. You wont get any where without eating well and good foods.

I'm very lucky that I didn't grow up with access to people like that. I see these weird body builder bodies and they instantly look un-natural and bizarre. The physiques I found inspiring were people like, Usain Bolt, Ian Thorpe, GGG and Ali.

Body dysmorphia has the component of not just seeing yourself differently than what you actually look like. It also makes the mistake of thinking other people think and feel as you do. This is called egocentric bias and it’s a devastating error to make. The truth is that other people are not you. They don’t like what you like. They like what they like. You like what benefits you. They like what benefits them. The idea that people will like me if I’m pretty or fit is complete delusion. Being pretty or fit does not benefit others. Other people like what benefits them. They are apathetic towards things that neither harm nor benefit. This includes a teenage girls body. Nobody else cares. People really need to get that through thier head. If you really want other people to like you then SERVE them. Don’t self improve in ways that don’t benefit others. Selflessly serve others if you want their brain to like you.

Kind of ironic that your fitness ethic ended up helping a very overweight and unhealthy individual.

@@greenarrow219 Aye, the ironies in life are plenty. Though, I do hope that that incident is a turning point for this person. There's always time to turn around!

Not a lot of people in this world want to genuinely work out and train practically. Most people don’t want to work out at all; No matter how incredible his content is, the underlying issue as to why he does not have a massive subscriber pool is the simple fact that Fitness is not something most people think about, and it’s definitely not something they want to do every day.

Can't say I believe Jeff is natural, but he does give good advice. He's so lean he looks more and more like a skeleton in the face as he ages.

They fail to understand how people work. They think if something makes them happy it will make other people happy. This is narcissistic. Other people like what benefits them, not what benefits you. I think there comes a point on every lifters career when they realize they just got thier strength goal and nobody else gave a crap. No girlfriend, no promotion, no celebration from friends. Nobody else cares because it’s a selfish beneficial pursuit. This is all fine but it reveals the harsh truth of reality. This is not a single player game. It’s understandable that a teenage boy doesn’t realize this yet, especially in our narcissistic digital culture.

you will only be coping by hiding from the truth.

Most of the stuff is sensational. Sensational stuff sells. Just use common sense and try not to fall into black pill mentality.

The real world vs the bull shit online. Adam is a shining light.

Bruh, the internet is just a tool and it's often the reflection of who you are. For instance, the YT algorithm is not gonna suggest you watch mindless videos if you regularly opt for high-quality content.

@@Midtierman you are just coping because you are unattractive to women.

People need to understand how brains work. You like what benefits you, dislike what harms you, and are apathetic to neutral things. People have egocentric bias. They thinks others feel how they feel. Obviously this is wrong. Other people like what benefits THEM, not what benefits you. So knowing this, if you want other people to be impressed and like you, you need to do what benefits them. If you improve your own physique then you will like it but others with be apathetic. Because it benefits you and not them. Doing things for yourself is fine. Doing things for the approval of others is also fine. But these are going to be different things. Don’t self improve expecting to make others like you. Serve others if you want them to like you.