BG Fitness Fanatics II: We Work Out

[Milkster]

Normally, if you're a guest, they will have the extra front desk person show you around or at least point things out for you from the front desk. I love to go to the local bodybuilding/powerlifting gyms when I travel, way nicer vibes compared to corporate chains. But yeah just walk around after you put your stuff away to see where everything is before your workout and go for it. People will only notice you and then carry on with their lives.

[Anoat]

It wasn’t just a regular gym, it was a group class with a trainer taking us on circuits buuuuuut only one other person showed up for the class so we basically got a one on one personal trainer for the whole class. Actually worked out good to quell my butterflies cause I wasn’t afraid of looking dumb in a room full of new people. Did an interesting HIIT circuit over 35 minutes.

We did 8 minutes of banded lateral stairclimbers, 8 minutes to do 3x 10 sets of tricep kickbacks and 3x 10 sets of lat raises, 8 minutes to do 3x 10 dumbbell crunches and 3x 15 hollow hold flutter kicks, and then 8 minutes on the treadmill with increased resistance for every minute. It was a quick 35 minute workout but we got a lot done.

[Meresgi]

It dropped

[Milkster]

When did he get so many bad tattoos? And 18 minute video reacting to a video that's reacting to a video? My guy fell off hard. Guy is barely getting a 1/10th of the amount of views from when he started, probably cause most of his millennial audience phased out and he never pivoted. Being an influencer must suck and there's clearly a generational divide in terms of humor. The Tren Twins are the exact people he pretends to be and they're massive with Gen Z.

[thetruepandagod]

i love the tren twins. that is all

[Yabby]

i love the tren twins. that is all

[thetruepandagod]

i stand by it

[Milkster]

I want one of them to be apart of the Alphabet Mafia.

[thetruepandagod]

they ride that edge quite often in only the way 2 bros who are genuine can

[thetruepandagod]

it would definitely be mikey tho

[thetruepandagod]

also did you see that they just got shadowbanned on IG for posting a certain picture? they are trying to work around the ban by changing name etc but u cant find em if u search em rn

[Yabby]

2 bros who are genuine can

[Yabby]

Just to be clear, I don’t have anything against them personally. I just can’t stand influencer culture and everything that comes with it. At the end of the day, they’re all just chasing their own payoff.

[thetruepandagod]

i wouldn't really call them influencers, they are just bros doing what they love and getting that bag along the way. it'd be like calling chris bumstead an influencer, which is technically true, but he's also mr olympia so...

i find the urge to be semantical because i find them genuine and like them

[Yabby]

The way I label someone an influencer:

1. They post primarily on social media for engagement, not through a news source or personal website. They might be on YouTube, but I would bet they are also active on Twitter, TikTok, or Instagram.
   
2. They try to make some kind of cultural or community impact within a specific niche. In this case, that would be fitness.
   
3. They look for brand collaborations or sponsorships. Do they sell merch, protein, or something fitness-related like programs?

I am pretty sure they check all three boxes. Like I said, I do not blame anyone for getting their bag, but most influencers would sell their audience snake oil if the paycheck was big enough.

[Meresgi]

i wouldn't really call them influencers, they are just bros doing what they love and getting that bag along the way. it'd be like calling chris bumstead an influencer, which is technically true, but he's also mr olympia so...

i find the urge to be semantical because i find them genuine and like them

I think they're influencers but not in the fucking annoying as hell way. I see them in the same vein as Johnny Shrieve and even Bumstead and a few others who are out there doing shit and enjoying themselves but have a media presence too. I guess I see them as fitness influencers from a bygone era where you just worked out, maybe showed people some workout routines you were doing and enjoyed doing it for the love of lifting heavy shit. (OmarIsuf, that one bald dude who does a lot of pullup vids, Mitchell Hooper, Juji and a few others) whereas now it's full of shit like Nippard, Isratel and his group and others

[Milkster]

Nippard is like one of the OG social media fitness personalities. He's been doing this since 2010 or so.

[Meresgi]

Nippard is like one of the OG social media fitness personalities. He's been doing this since 2010 or so.

Yeah and i used to love his shit but now he's purely algo driven and just tossing slop up like others. He's just science Athelean-X at this point

[thetruepandagod]

something strange is going on. for the entirety of my gym life it has been hard to gain weight and i usually eat 4800 calories just to stay around 155lbs. for the past week i have been going to gym as soon as i wake up completely fasted and only eating around 2000-2200 calories a day in total, yet i am edging towards 170lbs now. only thing that has changed is im not going to gym at the end of my day now. maybe im fidgeting way less throughout the day now but that'd be a huge gap in calories burned.

[Krandor]

You're getting old