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These are good for Cardio! If you're interested in getting stronger, another great resource is The BodyWeightFitness Wiki which has a lot of great strength oriented routines.
Also, don't know about all of these, but avoid Athlean X (OP, remove that one?), he's a grifter who's advocated some downright dangerous things.
avoid Athlean X (OP, remove that one?), he’s a grifter who’s advocated some downright dangerous things.
I recently started working out and I absolutely did get that vibe from him. But I haven't seen anything of the sort. Can you give specific examples?
Most of it is okay, but then he'll say weird stuff like claiming that dumbbell rows are dangerous. It's a way of getting people scared of other fitness influencers "oh, Jeff said that would hurt me!" Then, he sells 100 dollar programs. For context, one of the best programs out there, Stronger by Science is $10. 5/3/1 is like $40 for hundreds of programs.
He also used to do "functional fitness" where he'd do dumb shit like explosive cross body curls.
If you're looking for legit fitness influencers, go with Renaissance Periodization, Greg Nuckols, Juggernaut Training Systems, Alan Thrall, Tom Merick, Atranik,
then he’ll say weird stuff like claiming that dumbbell rows are dangerous
I haven't seen him say that, unless you are referring to him saying upright rows, in which case he is correct, upright rows are bad and unnecessary, and he isn't the only one saying that.
No, it was dumbbell rows with a knee on the bench. He was claiming it would give you a hernia. I know to do lateral raises and strict press instead of upright rows and behind the head press.
Oh, I found the video you are talking about which is kinda weird given that he did a video before explaining how to do the exercise. Idk about his alternative, it may indeed be better. He does fear monger sometimes though. Wouldn't call it dangerous, it's kind of the opposite, more on the debilitating side.
Athlean X is not advocating for dangerous things, and most of the advice is good. It's just that sometimes his vids are clickbait and he does weird stuff trying to sell programs. He has like a billion videos on everything, of course a couple will have wrong advice. 99.9% is good.
Honestly I've found books more helpful because they are more organized. The trick is finding good, reliable ones. For bodyweight stuff most people recommend Overcoming Gravity. The book actually has a reddit sub and the author has been answering questions on reddit.
I was thinking of joining a gym and this post reminded me.
Fuck scummy gyms. Golds lists memberships in a month basis, but priced bi-weekly.
50/mo isn't the worst i've seen but damn its still annoying.
I only do free weight stuff and to be denied a squat would make it ultimately not worth it. I have a free gym available by my work but they only have smith machines so I just don't bother. squats/dls are the only thing that motivate me to go to the gym in the first place so if faced with all cable machines, I just wont go.
hm interesting. I don't even know if theres a planet fitness near me anyway. Where I live now its either corporate gyms or gyms dedicated to a certain cult of exercise.
I miss this gym I used to go to, it was a small place owned by husband and wife with 1 treadmill and 6 squat racks and a whole room for Olympic lifts. The clientele were either extremely nice giant beefy dudes who'd compliment form on a good day and give great advice on a bad day, or older ladies doing power lifting classes led by one of the owners.
The gym was so good that it made every other gym feel like a hotel fitness center and I've still yet to get a membership elsewhere and it's been like 5 years.
I lifted throughout my late teens and intermittently through college while riding several miles a day on a bike usually full sprint to get to class. So i built some kind of base fitness level that's still hiding somewhere. I got under a bar for the first time in 3 years and was still able to squat 225 so I know its not all gone.
I have always hated physically being in a gym though. Before I left for college I built a power rack out of 4x4 posts in my back yard with removable safety bars and multiple height adjustment just so I didn't have to go to a gym. If I could just lift logs and drag them around for a few hours each week, I'd prefer that to going to a gym.
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