It makes me sick every time I see any of this rubbish from these clueless gym fanatics pushing daily heavy workouts onto people who want to lose weight and get fit but don’t know how.
It’s a disaster, a scam, and a massive health hazard to the poor souls who fall for their nonsensical marketing pitches.
There’s a bigger problem involved — these fitness trainers know absolutely nothing about:
- How the body functions
- How food affects your metabolic and mental health
- How overtraining ruins your heart
- Why daily weight training will do next to nothing for weight loss and good health
The problem is the Fitness Industry
Personal trainers are also victims of the fitness industry marketing machine and made-up myths.
Like the average joe, they’ve been roped in and led to believe that the gym and daily workouts are the only way to get healthy, lose weight, and get fit.
And that is not true.
Health, fitness, and well-being come from within. 90% of your overall internal and external health is determined by what you put in your body, not how often you train it.
The “fitness guru” who doesn’t want to learn
The other day I decided to drop a comment on a young female fitness trainer’s workout photos and video post.
She has a hugely bulked-up ass and legs and thinks that’s cool and how a woman’s body should look.
Wrong again.
The video shows her and her friends working out ferociously, and it ends with her slogan:
“We love being fit, healthy, and hot.”
“Contact me if you want to get fit and strong.”
Nice try to find gullible clients.
I politely asked if she’d checked her heart and blood pressure lately and whether she knew her heavy daily training was slowly ruining her heart.
I wasn’t being rude or offensive — the opposite — I simply wanted to raise awareness about the vital importance of heart health.
She wasn’t happy with my innocent and well-intended remark.
If she’d checked me out, she would have soon learned I’m a well-educated pro in fitness, nutrition, and metabolic health. I also have over 30 years of experience in these fields.
Instead, she shot me an aggressive personal message, saying:
“Don’t make assumptions about my education and know-how. I’m a pro and know what I’m doing.”
Oh, is that really so?
I replied, pointing out the dangers of overtraining and the excessive release of cortisol — our fight or flight stress hormone. Of course, she hadn’t heard about this because the young trainer had not educated herself about how the body works.
The mind and body perceive hard workouts as stress
It’s commonly known that stress causes heart attacks — it happens to high-pressure, overworked folks all the time. It can occur as early as in your 30s.
Sadly, athletes and sports enthusiasts die young every year.
That’s especially the case with people who regularly perform high-intensity sports, such as CrossFit, long-distance running, and heavy weightlifting.
The fitness industry and mainstream media don’t discuss this sad statistic much.
When an incident occurs, it’s mostly swept under the carpet as “bad luck,” a pre-existing condition, or a hereditary disposition to heart failure.
Once again, 99% of the time, these statements are not true. The industry, the sports teams, and the media know — but, they don’t want you to know!
Why?
This knowledge would stop a considerable percentage from going to the gym and taking part in the crazy high-intensity workouts falsely tagged as “healthy.”
And that, my friends, would mean loss of income and no profits!
As per usual, everything always boils down to money.
The money game
1 — The food industry sells you as much junk food as possible and dares to call it “heart healthy.”
2 — The fitness industry tricks you into thinking working out daily in a gym is the only way to lose weight and become fit and healthy.
3 — The sporting goods industry sells its expensive “tech workout gear,” which you don’t need, to the brainwashed fitness fanatics,
4 — Professional sports organizations make you believe their super high-performing athletes are in top-notch shape and healthy, and their sports games are safe, so you follow suit and buy their tickets and merchandise.
Meanwhile, worldwide, we have top athletes and fitness fanatics dying of heart attacks from overtraining.
The loss of life in the name of money would be avoidable if the responsible industries and organizations did the right thing and spent time and money educating their customers on the health risks associated with high-performance sports and overtraining.
It’s all a set-up and a scam!
Final Thoughts
I don’t write these articles for fun or to annoy fitness fanatics. Instead, I write my stories to inform, educate, and help folks live a “real” healthy life.
My slogan is different from the young-gun fitness trainers:
“Live a health life by following natural principles.”
If you do that with your food, exercise, wellness, and general lifestyle, you will suffer far fewer ailments and most likely live a longer life.
Rob
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