[quote]Apoklyps wrote:
[quote]BrickHead wrote:
At this point in time, I am sick of MOST fitness professionals!
To me, the main aim, aside from earning a living, as we all know, of a fitness professional is to help people get in shape and healthy and perform better.
Now, whether someone is competent or highly successful, at this age, I’ve grown VERY tired of braggarts. Seriously, if someone is successful, then I give credit. But that’s where it ends! I don’t have to be reminded over and over and over again by the successful person of what he does or how everyone else is a jerkoff doing it wrong. Like… say someone is a dentist. That’s an admirable position and it probably took some smarts and hard work and sacrifice to attain the position. But I don’t need to be reminded over and over and over again the person is a dentist. Many fitness professionals have this sort of tenor in their social media updates as of late: "Look at me; I’m successful. Other gurus do it wrong, and I do it right. I’m sure some are harmless, nice guys, but this stuff gets annoying and distasteful.
Same low brow stuff goes for these You Tube trendies who make videos on almost nothing informative, but to remind everyone who’s natural or not or do other sorts of bashing. If someone wants to bash Bostin Lloyd because he’s doing bodybuilding drugs “wrong” and how he’s obviously "all roids because he went from a semi-built, semi-chubby 19 year old to a goddamn hulk in a year because of roid use, then screw them–as if there’s some right age to start them or how to use them; you know, because at 19 T is just flooding the body and all top IFBB pros “waited”. It’s goddamn corny to follow people around on You Tube to bash them. If I had a popular You Tube video and I wanted to discuss natty limits, I’d just say basic stuff like, if someone has an FFMI of 25 or more, it can REASONABLY be assumed there’s drug use. If some kid emailed me, “Do you think Kali is natural?”, I’d simply write back and say, “See my video in which I discuss reasonable natural limits” and not have to be a huge baby and make a whole video titled something like “Did Kali get that big because of tuna and ramen noodles?” or “Kali is a liar”.
As some of us have recognized, the fitness world is flooded with distasteful and INFANTILE people. [/quote]
So much truth in here.
Has Layne accomplished things? Yes, he has. Does he annoy the shit out of me? Yes, he does. It amazes me to see that anyone could be conceited enough to plaster PhD after his name every time it appears (like he’s apparently the only bodybuilder/powerlifter out there who has ever achieved a high level of education). Dave Palumbo has an MD (a much bigger accomplishment IMO), but you don’t see him bragging about being “Dr. Dave Palumbo” at every opportunity.
That said, no one should have to deal with slander when it could potentially affect your income and/or other aspects of your professional life. There’s a difference between a call-out and an opinion. Calling out Layne Norton as a fake natty is wrong. Saying “based on my years of experience, my opinion is that it is likely that Layne is using because…” is something entirely different.
Jason Blaha is definitely in the wrong here. I just think Layne’s such a piece of shit that it’s hard to feel sorry for the guy.
All this age of YT fitness gurus has taught me is that I really, really need to make a YouTube fitness channel. Pump it up with broscience and braggadocio, make inflammatory statements (except against Layne Norton clearly), get a twin, and make some cute catchphrases —> BOOM! Instant success.[/quote]
Great post!
