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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to there is a Method to the Madness.
My name is Rob Maxwell and I'man exercise physiologist and
personal trainer.
I am the owner of Maxwell'sFitness Programs and I've been
in business since 1994.
The purpose of this podcast isto get to the real deal of what
really works and, mostimportantly, why things work.
(00:21):
Hence the name there is amethod to the madness.
Before I get to today's show, Iwant to thank Jonathan and Lynn
Gildan of the Gildan Group atRealty Pros.
They are committed to providingthe highest level of customer
service in home sales.
Why don't you give them a shoutand figure out what your home
is worth?
386-451-2412.
(00:44):
Good morning everybody.
Good afternoon, good night.
Whatever time you are listeningto this.
A lot of my listeners tell methey listen to this when they're
working out or when they'redriving to working out.
That's pretty cool.
I think that's good.
I tend to like to listen to thepodcasts.
(01:05):
I listen to when I work out aswell, sometimes when I drive,
but I really seem to get themost focused when I'm working
out, especially if I'm doingcardio.
So that's cool, I like that.
So again, whatever time you'relistening, good day to you.
I'm going to talk to you todayabout some health and fitness,
(01:26):
as I always do.
Today is Tuesday for me, tuesdaymorning, early part of
September.
It's amazing how fast the timeis going here.
It's starting to get a littlebit cooler here slightly.
I know people probably justshook their head in Central
Florida when I said that.
But a little cooler, I meanwe're not seeing like what we
(01:48):
saw in mid-July, which wasbrutal, but you know it's still
warm.
But I guess, because I knowit's September, I know cooler
temps are coming.
Cooler, not cool yet, but to meit felt pretty good.
Pool yet, but to me it feltpretty good.
I ran on the treadmill thismorning because it was a
downpour of rain and then I dida little workout after that.
(02:11):
That tends to be my morningroutine a little cardio, a
little strength, and I love itand it puts me in a better mood.
It helps me do what I need todo.
It's kind of like putting on myoxygen mask, so to say so I can
be of good service.
Working out absolutely changesmy mindset.
So, speaking of that kind of,I'm going to talk a little bit
(02:36):
today.
I'm going to try to get youguys to.
You know, at least shake yourhead and go.
Oh, that's true.
You know whether you 100% agreewith me or not.
You know I want to talk aboutthe importance of
professionalism and theimportance of listening to the
experts.
When it comes to at least myindustry I would say all
(02:58):
industries, but you know I'mmostly concerned with mine,
which is health and fitness.
So you know I want people tothink about how.
I mean, can't we all agree thatthere needs to be a baseline of
professionalism in all theindustries?
Really?
I mean, what industry would younot want that in?
(03:19):
I mean you should be adequatelytrained, with certain education
.
That doesn't necessarily meanlike college education or high
school education, that's notwhat I mean but there does need
to be a level of education ineverything that an expert does
and then a level of experience.
So that's, you know how we gettrained right, we get trained
(03:42):
right.
So wouldn't we all agree?
We want that, no matter whatyou're going to do, what you're
going in for your professionalservice or advice, I mean I do
so, you know, and I mean in myindustry it's too many times we
have people that have been inthe hobby of physical fitness
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like it worked for them, or theyat least think it worked for
them, meaning that they mighthave exceptional genetics and
then worked out just a littlebit and then took off because
they just, you know, I mean Igive them some credit for some
work ethic, but they had greatgenes and so so they had like
(04:26):
popping abs right away.
They had.
You know, if they're a femalenot trying to be gender biased
here but you know certain musclegroups are, and the better legs
, you know the men tend to want,the better chest, the better
(04:47):
abs, the better biceps, thingslike that.
I think both sexes agree, orboth genders agree on abdominals
maybe, but you know so maybethey take off a little and they
get great glutes and then thenext thing, you know, they're
your glute expert online.
You know that's not good enough,people.
There has to be some form ofeducation.
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That's why I call the podcastthe Method to the Madness.
That's why I call my first bookthe Method to the Madness,
because there is a method to themadness, like it's not just
about randomly doing things andthen showing results.
I mean, any activity is good,but when you're posing as an
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expert because you look good,you literally, literally are
posing.
You don't necessarily know whatyou're talking about.
If you put the two togethereducation, experience, yes, and
then that's a great thing.
So let me give you somestatistics on that.
All right, this is pretty crazy.
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So the people that are likegiven a lot of information on
diet on the internet, like I seethat all the time.
I mean trying to think I can'tthink of, at least in this
industry, the health and fitnessindustry a topic that gets more
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clicks?
Anything, drink water, you know, I don't think we really can
argue with that, but stillthat's another one we see all
the time.
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Then we'll see don't eat carbsor don't eat sugar.
So those are the biggies, butI'd have to say that the biggest
one I see is eat more protein.
That seems to be like whateverybody says, and I'm not here
to say that's wrong or right.
I mean, it can be wrong and itcan be right, Like it depends.
I don't know how much you'reeating, but that's not the point
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.
The point is this 87% of thoseclaims made on social media, the
people that are stating them donot have the qualifications to
state them.
People that are stating them donot have the qualifications to
state them 87%.
So only 13% of the people thatare making these claims should
be making the claims.
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Yet what's the turnaround onreturn?
How many people do you thinkare listening?
I would say quite a bit.
I mean I don't know for sure.
I'd have to ask some of my youknow statistic geeks out there
maybe to go figure it out, but Iwould say at least 50%.
To where it really made animpression, I would say that
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more than that went huh, okay,all right, but maybe over 50%
did something with thatinformation.
That's pretty bad.
So if only if 13% have thequalifications and 50% are
listening and we're talkingmillions of people, then you're
spreading misinformation becauseyou don't know, I mean, or it
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could be that you do know andyou're trying to make a buck.
You know there's a lot ofpeople out there peddling snake
oil, as I talked about last time, so that could be true.
But at the very worst you'rejust ignorant and you shouldn't
be spreading that informationbefore it's verified.
And even more so than that, youprobably, if you are in that
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camp of 87%, shouldn't be givingit the exposure at all, like
it's not your job.
You're not qualified to do thatjust because you might look
good or you I don't know.
And I mean even that is reallysubjective, isn't it?
I mean, you talk about holyPhotoshop these days, you know,
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I mean we all.
Nobody really wants to talkabout that and nobody really
wants to say anything about thatto their friends or
acquaintances or people theyjust meet for the first time on
social media.
But how many times do you lookat a profile picture and then
meet the person in person and go, uh, where did you go?
(08:59):
Like that is not you.
I mean, nobody wants to sayanything, nobody wants to.
I mean, I get it, you know I do.
But I would say, at least halfthe time I'm scrolling through
social media I'll see a picture.
It's usually a profile pictureand sometimes it's just a
(09:20):
regular posted picture, butoftentimes it is a profile
picture and I'll go that's notthem.
I mean, that is not them, right?
And I mean you might say, well,what's wrong with that?
I think a lot of things.
I think that I get why peopledo it.
I think that if you are likeyou know, a salesperson and you
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know you're selling something,you work for somebody, you're
trying to make an impression,but don't people realize, well,
you're going to meet the andthey're going to have these
expectations.
You know and look.
I'm not saying everything isabout appearance, but it is.
If you're making it about that,I mean if you were just who you
were and you meet somebody, Imean they don't care.
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But if you're going out of yourway to look one way and then
somebody meets you in person andyou're not, I mean right away,
I think it gives the person sortof a distrust feeling of, well,
they're going to change thismuch.
So you know, that's not whatthis is about, but it is kind of
.
The point is that when you seethese pictures of these, you
know men or women you know thatlook exceptionally fit.
(10:26):
Don't always trust it, man.
People modify these picturesall the time.
They can modify videos.
I mean so you don't know.
I mean, first off, youshouldn't be following that Like
.
You should.
As soon as you see information,you should go in and check
their qualifications.
You know, but like and and.
(10:46):
But.
Secondly, it's like don't eventrust the picture anyway.
I had a client and she's trainedwith me for a few years now,
casey, and she's done a physiquecontest with me Like good
client, right?
I mean they're all good clients.
I bring her up because Iremember a couple months ago she
saw somebody it was a fitnesslady giving fitness advice for
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like shows, for what she did,like physique competitions, and
the information was all wrongand first Casey made a comment
and then sent it to me and thecomment was you know what are
your qualifications?
And she was trying to ask her.
I don't think the woman everreplied and I think Casey may
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have taken it down because shejust realized it's not worth the
you know, the argument withpeople and it's really not.
It is so not, I don't do that.
I just, you know, keepscrolling or I block or whatever
.
But anyway she sent it to meand I was happy about that
because everything I've saidthrough the years has made her
go.
Oh, you know, I need to makesure this person knows what
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they're talking about.
You know, I, we, I said all thetime we, we said all the time
in the 80s when, when I was justa, you know, a teen and a early
20 guy, you know, working out,we'd say don't ask the racehorse
how it got fast.
You know, you don't knowthere's genetics involved.
Just because somebody looksgood or is good, there's a lot
of genetics.
I apologize for saying I heardmyself on the podcast the other
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day and I realized how often Isay that and that's not good
enough.
I need to up my game.
So I apologize for that.
Here's another statistic for you.
There are people on there whopose as physicians online.
Okay, we see it, we saw itduring COVID.
We saw a lot of people comingout, you know, and they oh God,
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I just did it and they wereacting like epidemiologists.
They're giving all this advice.
They're telling people whatthey should and should not be
doing.
That's very risky people, whatthey should and should not be
doing.
That's very risky people.
13% of the people that claim tobe medical doctors on social
media are 13%.
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I have friends who arephysicians.
I have clients who arephysicians and you know what
they are on social media.
I see them.
I'm friends with them on socialmedia.
I have three that come to thegym right now that I'm friends
with on social media.
I see them.
I'm friends with them on socialmedia.
I have three that come to thegym right now that I'm friends
with on social media.
None of them give medicaladvice on social media.
One of them will comment hereor there on her friend's posts.
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Doesn't comment anything aboutherself comment anything about
herself.
The other one never comments,hardly ever does, and one of
them will post something aboutsports because he is a sports
nut like me.
That's it.
No medical advice given, nomedical posts made.
So I believe this 13%, becauseif I know physicians and I know
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more I mean I've got these arejust the three that currently
come to my gym.
I've got a lot of friends andacquaintances that work for
Halifax, work for Floridahospital.
I mean, as soon as I said that,three other guys just came into
my head that I'm, oh God, fouror five and three or four
gastroenterologists alone.
They're not giving medicaladvice on Facebook.
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They're not doing it.
They're not doing it on Twitter.
They're not doing it.
So they're smarter than that.
They're like I'm not going toput this information out there,
I'm not going to give falseinformation about this.
I don't know this patient andthen God forbid, they go get
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hurt.
They're not worried aboutlawsuits.
I don't think you can get suedfor making these kinds of
comments online, unless it'spure slander or misinformation,
that is, I don't.
I don't even know.
I don't even know if you could,for that.
That's not why they don't do it.
They don't do it becausethey're not stupid.
There's no reason to do it.
There's no gain to do it.
They're not going to getpatients from doing this.
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They're, if anything would losepatients right, so they're not
doing it.
So I absolutely believe thatonly 13% of the people posing as
medical experts are qualifiedto do it.
60% of everybody you're goingto encounter online regarding
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like strength and conditioning,have zero qualifications to do
so.
60% like strength trainingpeople you know like.
We see these people postingvideos.
You see those types of things.
Look, is there anything wrongwith going to the gym?
I have students.
Well, the students havequalifications, but maybe
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they're not working in the fieldand they got their original
degree and they got certified,maybe.
I mean, I've got a lot ofstudents.
I can think of some that are inthat category.
I can think of some that are inworking categories.
So they have the qualifications, but maybe you're out there
posting a video of you doingsquats.
Is that bad?
No, the problem is when youthen start telling people what
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they're doing wrong and youdon't know yourself.
I shouldn't say even that is sodemeaning to my field.
Strength training is so critical.
I mean, it is one of the topthings you can do to improve
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your health outcomes andincrease your longevity and
quality of life?
Absolutely.
We know this.
Statistics are bearing it outleft and right.
So learning how to do properstrength training matters so
freaking much and we'll havepeople doing ridiculous
kettlebell exercises out thereand acting like they know
exactly what they're talkingabout.
Is a kettlebell bad?
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No, I'm not saying that.
They're doing specificexercises.
They're pushing as the be allget all of the only exercise you
have to do, and they might lookgood and they might be trained
with kettlebells.
That does not make them ahealth and fitness expert.
You might see guys working withkids in the gym, football
players pushing up a lot ofweight.
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I see it all the time because Ifollow a lot of the teams.
I will say that theprofessional teams I'll just
focus on football right nowbecause it's football season.
I will say that theprofessional teams I'll just
focus on football right nowbecause it's football season.
I mean it's baseball season too, but I've been seeing a lot of
videos come across my feedbecause the algorithm knows I
like them and I do, and I'mseeing a lot of football videos
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come across my feed of the guysworking out like in camp and
stuff.
And yeah, man, there are someincredibly strong people out
there and at least half of it,if not more, have terrible form,
with people cheering them onand pushing them, and I'm
thinking, man, oh man, you know,we gotta be careful about this.
We have to really be carefulabout what we're trying to tell
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people is the right thing to do.
I see it with the young athletesall the time.
It's just follow your old unclewho used to be big type of
thing and next thing you know,you have a herniated disc or a
torn rotator cuff and you're notgoing to throw from third base
anymore and you're only 17.
I mean, there are ways to dothis stuff right, and so often
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we simply don't see it All right.
So, to give you a statistic andI put this in my new which is
only 22% are active enough toget benefits and what the
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solution is, which is qualifiedcoaching in my opinion.
So I'll give you a little statI put in there.
Really, if you want to look forthe amount of people total
online that have the credentialswhether it be medical, physical
fitness or nutrition you'relooking at a number of around
20%.
So 80% of the people out therejust might as well be flapping
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their gums and they're talkingout their neck.
They don't really have the notreally.
They don't have thequalifications to talk about
what they're talking about.
They just don't.
I used to make the joke a lotabout the old Holiday Inn
commercial where the guy wouldcome out and he was going to
save somebody's life and I said,are you a doctor?
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He says no, but I slept in aHoliday Inn last night.
I mean it's pretty similar,right, and we don't think about
that enough.
That needs to be one of thosethings where you go.
That's true.
I mean, just because you do it,just because you got a good
night's sleep, right, it doesn'tmake you the expert on anything
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.
There has to be a level ofeducation and a level of
experience, and I talked aboutthis a couple episodes ago and
I'll just kind of rail on it alittle bit again.
We see like the nationalpoliticians on both sides of the
aisle trying to be like theleaders in the physical fitness
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movement.
They're not and they never willbe.
I don't care what side of theaisle you are on.
Leave the physical fitness tothe physical fitness people.
I mean, if government wants toget involved in an initiative to
get people moving and all thatgreat.
Hire the right people out to doit the two guys they had out
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there pushing the way with theirpull-ups and push-up routine
that they ended up brutalizingthe form on that and basically
making themselves look likeidiots.
It shouldn't be the formerfirst lady of a couple
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presidents ago talking aboutschool lunches and stuff.
So I'm trying to make this fairand say it is both sides of the
aisle that shouldn't be pushingthis.
We were joking today in a sortof a joking way, but not really.
It's kind of like NancyReagan's thing in the 80s of
just say no, it didn't work,they're not the right people to
be out there giving this message.
And too often we see it it's apolitical thing to try to get
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people sort of fired up andwaving their swords.
You know I've heard so manypeople lately say, oh, I think
it's great that they're pushingphysical fitness.
Okay, of course you're notgoing to find a bigger fan than
me.
You got to get the right peopleto do it.
I'm a fan of ArnoldSchwarzenegger.
I like him.
I don't think he's perfect, Idon't think any of us are, but I
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like him.
I think he's funny.
I think he's done some reallygood things.
I like a lot of his movies, Ilike his Netflix thing, I like
his new podcast and he has hiredout.
Finally, because let me tell youI'm not taking health and
fitness advice from ArnoldSchwarzenegger.
He's the epitome of somebodywho had the great genetics and
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he also very much admits that heused a lot of drugs so he got
huge.
He doesn't know what he'stalking about.
He knew what he was talkingabout.
For him.
He didn't know what he'stalking about.
He knew what he was talkingabout for him.
He didn't know what he'stalking about giving health and
fitness advice.
He's hired two differentprofessionals that work for him
with his emails and his podcastsand they're good.
And then he just reads it andthen he agrees with it and he
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does do a good job of promotinghealthy lifestyle, Absolutely.
And now, in his 70s, he admitshe's not the expert on that.
He's an expert on bodybuilding,of course.
I mean, if I wanted a posingcoach, somebody that helped me
get up there and know how topose better, he'd be my guy for
sure, and I think he's smart.
He's not a health and fitnessexpert.
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He's had the experiencepersonally.
He doesn't have the experienceworking with people, nor the
education.
So I say that because he was inthat role under the Bush
administration and he shouldn'thave been.
I mean, he's a great like, lookfor it because you're going to
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get the exposure, but he doesn'thave the credentials to be
talking about back then what hewas even talking about.
So a lot of this is popping upagain, I think because of the
political push and I think justbecause social media is growing
even more, and I just wanted toshare with you those statistics
so you can see that you want toget the professionals to help
you with whatever it is.
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If you need medical advice tohelp you with whatever it is, if
you need medical advice, go toyour doctor.
If you need to know aboutpandemics and epidemics and
stuff like that, trust realepidemiologists, not some rando
on Facebook trying to talk abouttrends.
If you want health and fitnessadvice, make sure that your
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trainer or your strength andconditioning coach, or whoever
you see for that, or yourwellness coach, has at least a
bachelor's degree in health andfitness and is certified through
one of the four accreditedcertifications the American
College of Sports Medicine, theNational Strength and
Conditioning Association, theAmerican Council on Exercise or
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the National Academy of SportsMedicine.
Those are the only four.
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Welcome to there is a Method to the Madness.
My name is Rob Maxwell and I'man exercise physiologist and
personal trainer.
I am the owner of Maxwell'sFitness Programs and I've been
in business since 1994.
The purpose of this podcast isto get to the real deal of what
really works and, mostimportantly, why things work.
(00:21):
Hence the name there is amethod to the madness.
Before I get to today's show, Iwant to thank Jonathan and Lynn
Gildan of the Gildan Group atRealty Pros.
They are committed to providingthe highest level of customer
service in home sales.
Why don't you give them a shoutand figure out what your home
is worth?
386-451-2412.
(00:44):
Good morning everybody.
Good afternoon, good night.
Whatever time you are listeningto this.
A lot of my listeners tell methey listen to this when they're
working out or when they'redriving to working out.
That's pretty cool.
I think that's good.
I tend to like to listen to thepodcasts.
(01:05):
I listen to when I work out aswell, sometimes when I drive,
but I really seem to get themost focused when I'm working
out, especially if I'm doingcardio.
So that's cool, I like that.
So again, whatever time you'relistening, good day to you.
I'm going to talk to you todayabout some health and fitness,
(01:26):
as I always do.
Today is Tuesday for me, tuesdaymorning, early part of
September.
It's amazing how fast the timeis going here.
It's starting to get a littlebit cooler here slightly.
I know people probably justshook their head in Central
Florida when I said that.
But a little cooler, I meanwe're not seeing like what we
(01:48):
saw in mid-July, which wasbrutal, but you know it's still
warm.
But I guess, because I knowit's September, I know cooler
temps are coming.
Cooler, not cool yet, but to meit felt pretty good.
Pool yet, but to me it feltpretty good.
I ran on the treadmill thismorning because it was a
downpour of rain and then I dida little workout after that.
(02:11):
That tends to be my morningroutine a little cardio, a
little strength, and I love itand it puts me in a better mood.
It helps me do what I need todo.
It's kind of like putting on myoxygen mask, so to say so I can
be of good service.
Working out absolutely changesmy mindset.
So, speaking of that kind of,I'm going to talk a little bit
(02:36):
today.
I'm going to try to get youguys to.
You know, at least shake yourhead and go.
Oh, that's true.
You know whether you 100% agreewith me or not.
You know I want to talk aboutthe importance of
professionalism and theimportance of listening to the
experts.
When it comes to at least myindustry I would say all
(02:58):
industries, but you know I'mmostly concerned with mine,
which is health and fitness.
So you know I want people tothink about how.
I mean, can't we all agree thatthere needs to be a baseline of
professionalism in all theindustries?
Really?
I mean, what industry would younot want that in?
(03:19):
I mean you should be adequatelytrained, with certain education
.
That doesn't necessarily meanlike college education or high
school education, that's notwhat I mean but there does need
to be a level of education ineverything that an expert does
and then a level of experience.
So that's, you know how we gettrained right, we get trained
(03:42):
right.
So wouldn't we all agree?
We want that, no matter whatyou're going to do, what you're
going in for your professionalservice or advice, I mean I do
so, you know, and I mean in myindustry it's too many times we
have people that have been inthe hobby of physical fitness
(04:05):
like it worked for them, or theyat least think it worked for
them, meaning that they mighthave exceptional genetics and
then worked out just a littlebit and then took off because
they just, you know, I mean Igive them some credit for some
work ethic, but they had greatgenes and so so they had like
(04:26):
popping abs right away.
They had.
You know, if they're a femalenot trying to be gender biased
here but you know certain musclegroups are, and the better legs
, you know the men tend to want,the better chest, the better
(04:47):
abs, the better biceps, thingslike that.
I think both sexes agree, orboth genders agree on abdominals
maybe, but you know so maybethey take off a little and they
get great glutes and then thenext thing, you know, they're
your glute expert online.
You know that's not good enough,people.
There has to be some form ofeducation.
(05:09):
That's why I call the podcastthe Method to the Madness.
That's why I call my first bookthe Method to the Madness,
because there is a method to themadness, like it's not just
about randomly doing things andthen showing results.
I mean, any activity is good,but when you're posing as an
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expert because you look good,you literally, literally are
posing.
You don't necessarily know whatyou're talking about.
If you put the two togethereducation, experience, yes, and
then that's a great thing.
So let me give you somestatistics on that.
All right, this is pretty crazy.
(05:51):
So the people that are likegiven a lot of information on
diet on the internet, like I seethat all the time.
I mean trying to think I can'tthink of, at least in this
industry, the health and fitnessindustry a topic that gets more
(06:11):
clicks?
Anything, drink water, you know, I don't think we really can
argue with that, but stillthat's another one we see all
the time.
(06:31):
Then we'll see don't eat carbsor don't eat sugar.
So those are the biggies, butI'd have to say that the biggest
one I see is eat more protein.
That seems to be like whateverybody says, and I'm not here
to say that's wrong or right.
I mean, it can be wrong and itcan be right, Like it depends.
I don't know how much you'reeating, but that's not the point
(06:53):
.
The point is this 87% of thoseclaims made on social media, the
people that are stating them donot have the qualifications to
state them.
People that are stating them donot have the qualifications to
state them 87%.
So only 13% of the people thatare making these claims should
be making the claims.
(07:13):
Yet what's the turnaround onreturn?
How many people do you thinkare listening?
I would say quite a bit.
I mean I don't know for sure.
I'd have to ask some of my youknow statistic geeks out there
maybe to go figure it out, but Iwould say at least 50%.
To where it really made animpression, I would say that
(07:33):
more than that went huh, okay,all right, but maybe over 50%
did something with thatinformation.
That's pretty bad.
So if only if 13% have thequalifications and 50% are
listening and we're talkingmillions of people, then you're
spreading misinformation becauseyou don't know, I mean, or it
(07:54):
could be that you do know andyou're trying to make a buck.
You know there's a lot ofpeople out there peddling snake
oil, as I talked about last time, so that could be true.
But at the very worst you'rejust ignorant and you shouldn't
be spreading that informationbefore it's verified.
And even more so than that, youprobably, if you are in that
(08:15):
camp of 87%, shouldn't be givingit the exposure at all, like
it's not your job.
You're not qualified to do thatjust because you might look
good or you I don't know.
And I mean even that is reallysubjective, isn't it?
I mean, you talk about holyPhotoshop these days, you know,
(08:36):
I mean we all.
Nobody really wants to talkabout that and nobody really
wants to say anything about thatto their friends or
acquaintances or people theyjust meet for the first time on
social media.
But how many times do you lookat a profile picture and then
meet the person in person and go, uh, where did you go?
(08:59):
Like that is not you.
I mean, nobody wants to sayanything, nobody wants to.
I mean, I get it, you know I do.
But I would say, at least halfthe time I'm scrolling through
social media I'll see a picture.
It's usually a profile pictureand sometimes it's just a
(09:20):
regular posted picture, butoftentimes it is a profile
picture and I'll go that's notthem.
I mean, that is not them, right?
And I mean you might say, well,what's wrong with that?
I think a lot of things.
I think that I get why peopledo it.
I think that if you are likeyou know, a salesperson and you
(09:41):
know you're selling something,you work for somebody, you're
trying to make an impression,but don't people realize, well,
you're going to meet the andthey're going to have these
expectations.
You know and look.
I'm not saying everything isabout appearance, but it is.
If you're making it about that,I mean if you were just who you
were and you meet somebody, Imean they don't care.
(10:02):
But if you're going out of yourway to look one way and then
somebody meets you in person andyou're not, I mean right away,
I think it gives the person sortof a distrust feeling of, well,
they're going to change thismuch.
So you know, that's not whatthis is about, but it is kind of
.
The point is that when you seethese pictures of these, you
know men or women you know thatlook exceptionally fit.
(10:26):
Don't always trust it, man.
People modify these picturesall the time.
They can modify videos.
I mean so you don't know.
I mean, first off, youshouldn't be following that Like
.
You should.
As soon as you see information,you should go in and check
their qualifications.
You know, but like and and.
(10:46):
But.
Secondly, it's like don't eventrust the picture anyway.
I had a client and she's trainedwith me for a few years now,
casey, and she's done a physiquecontest with me Like good
client, right?
I mean they're all good clients.
I bring her up because Iremember a couple months ago she
saw somebody it was a fitnesslady giving fitness advice for
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like shows, for what she did,like physique competitions, and
the information was all wrongand first Casey made a comment
and then sent it to me and thecomment was you know what are
your qualifications?
And she was trying to ask her.
I don't think the woman everreplied and I think Casey may
(11:32):
have taken it down because shejust realized it's not worth the
you know, the argument withpeople and it's really not.
It is so not, I don't do that.
I just, you know, keepscrolling or I block or whatever
.
But anyway she sent it to meand I was happy about that
because everything I've saidthrough the years has made her
go.
Oh, you know, I need to makesure this person knows what
(11:57):
they're talking about.
You know, I, we, I said all thetime we, we said all the time
in the 80s when, when I was justa, you know, a teen and a early
20 guy, you know, working out,we'd say don't ask the racehorse
how it got fast.
You know, you don't knowthere's genetics involved.
Just because somebody looksgood or is good, there's a lot
of genetics.
I apologize for saying I heardmyself on the podcast the other
(12:20):
day and I realized how often Isay that and that's not good
enough.
I need to up my game.
So I apologize for that.
Here's another statistic for you.
There are people on there whopose as physicians online.
Okay, we see it, we saw itduring COVID.
We saw a lot of people comingout, you know, and they oh God,
(12:43):
I just did it and they wereacting like epidemiologists.
They're giving all this advice.
They're telling people whatthey should and should not be
doing.
That's very risky people, whatthey should and should not be
doing.
That's very risky people.
13% of the people that claim tobe medical doctors on social
media are 13%.
(13:04):
I have friends who arephysicians.
I have clients who arephysicians and you know what
they are on social media.
I see them.
I'm friends with them on socialmedia.
I have three that come to thegym right now that I'm friends
with on social media.
I see them.
I'm friends with them on socialmedia.
I have three that come to thegym right now that I'm friends
with on social media.
None of them give medicaladvice on social media.
One of them will comment hereor there on her friend's posts.
(13:28):
Doesn't comment anything aboutherself comment anything about
herself.
The other one never comments,hardly ever does, and one of
them will post something aboutsports because he is a sports
nut like me.
That's it.
No medical advice given, nomedical posts made.
So I believe this 13%, becauseif I know physicians and I know
(13:52):
more I mean I've got these arejust the three that currently
come to my gym.
I've got a lot of friends andacquaintances that work for
Halifax, work for Floridahospital.
I mean, as soon as I said that,three other guys just came into
my head that I'm, oh God, fouror five and three or four
gastroenterologists alone.
They're not giving medicaladvice on Facebook.
(14:13):
They're not doing it.
They're not doing it on Twitter.
They're not doing it.
So they're smarter than that.
They're like I'm not going toput this information out there,
I'm not going to give falseinformation about this.
I don't know this patient andthen God forbid, they go get
(14:34):
hurt.
They're not worried aboutlawsuits.
I don't think you can get suedfor making these kinds of
comments online, unless it'spure slander or misinformation,
that is, I don't.
I don't even know.
I don't even know if you could,for that.
That's not why they don't do it.
They don't do it becausethey're not stupid.
There's no reason to do it.
There's no gain to do it.
They're not going to getpatients from doing this.
(14:55):
They're, if anything would losepatients right, so they're not
doing it.
So I absolutely believe thatonly 13% of the people posing as
medical experts are qualifiedto do it.
60% of everybody you're goingto encounter online regarding
(15:17):
like strength and conditioning,have zero qualifications to do
so.
60% like strength trainingpeople you know like.
We see these people postingvideos.
You see those types of things.
Look, is there anything wrongwith going to the gym?
I have students.
Well, the students havequalifications, but maybe
(15:40):
they're not working in the fieldand they got their original
degree and they got certified,maybe.
I mean, I've got a lot ofstudents.
I can think of some that are inthat category.
I can think of some that are inworking categories.
So they have the qualifications, but maybe you're out there
posting a video of you doingsquats.
Is that bad?
No, the problem is when youthen start telling people what
(16:04):
they're doing wrong and youdon't know yourself.
I shouldn't say even that is sodemeaning to my field.
Strength training is so critical.
I mean, it is one of the topthings you can do to improve
(16:24):
your health outcomes andincrease your longevity and
quality of life?
Absolutely.
We know this.
Statistics are bearing it outleft and right.
So learning how to do properstrength training matters so
freaking much and we'll havepeople doing ridiculous
kettlebell exercises out thereand acting like they know
exactly what they're talkingabout.
Is a kettlebell bad?
(16:45):
No, I'm not saying that.
They're doing specificexercises.
They're pushing as the be allget all of the only exercise you
have to do, and they might lookgood and they might be trained
with kettlebells.
That does not make them ahealth and fitness expert.
You might see guys working withkids in the gym, football
players pushing up a lot ofweight.
(17:06):
I see it all the time because Ifollow a lot of the teams.
I will say that theprofessional teams I'll just
focus on football right nowbecause it's football season.
I will say that theprofessional teams I'll just
focus on football right nowbecause it's football season.
I mean it's baseball season too, but I've been seeing a lot of
videos come across my feedbecause the algorithm knows I
like them and I do, and I'mseeing a lot of football videos
(17:27):
come across my feed of the guysworking out like in camp and
stuff.
And yeah, man, there are someincredibly strong people out
there and at least half of it,if not more, have terrible form,
with people cheering them onand pushing them, and I'm
thinking, man, oh man, you know,we gotta be careful about this.
We have to really be carefulabout what we're trying to tell
(17:51):
people is the right thing to do.
I see it with the young athletesall the time.
It's just follow your old unclewho used to be big type of
thing and next thing you know,you have a herniated disc or a
torn rotator cuff and you're notgoing to throw from third base
anymore and you're only 17.
I mean, there are ways to dothis stuff right, and so often
(18:15):
we simply don't see it All right.
So, to give you a statistic andI put this in my new which is
only 22% are active enough toget benefits and what the
(18:35):
solution is, which is qualifiedcoaching in my opinion.
So I'll give you a little statI put in there.
Really, if you want to look forthe amount of people total
online that have the credentialswhether it be medical, physical
fitness or nutrition you'relooking at a number of around
20%.
So 80% of the people out therejust might as well be flapping
(18:58):
their gums and they're talkingout their neck.
They don't really have the notreally.
They don't have thequalifications to talk about
what they're talking about.
They just don't.
I used to make the joke a lotabout the old Holiday Inn
commercial where the guy wouldcome out and he was going to
save somebody's life and I said,are you a doctor?
(19:20):
He says no, but I slept in aHoliday Inn last night.
I mean it's pretty similar,right, and we don't think about
that enough.
That needs to be one of thosethings where you go.
That's true.
I mean, just because you do it,just because you got a good
night's sleep, right, it doesn'tmake you the expert on anything
(19:40):
.
There has to be a level ofeducation and a level of
experience, and I talked aboutthis a couple episodes ago and
I'll just kind of rail on it alittle bit again.
We see like the nationalpoliticians on both sides of the
aisle trying to be like theleaders in the physical fitness
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movement.
They're not and they never willbe.
I don't care what side of theaisle you are on.
Leave the physical fitness tothe physical fitness people.
I mean, if government wants toget involved in an initiative to
get people moving and all thatgreat.
Hire the right people out to doit the two guys they had out
(20:31):
there pushing the way with theirpull-ups and push-up routine
that they ended up brutalizingthe form on that and basically
making themselves look likeidiots.
It shouldn't be the formerfirst lady of a couple
(20:57):
presidents ago talking aboutschool lunches and stuff.
So I'm trying to make this fairand say it is both sides of the
aisle that shouldn't be pushingthis.
We were joking today in a sortof a joking way, but not really.
It's kind of like NancyReagan's thing in the 80s of
just say no, it didn't work,they're not the right people to
be out there giving this message.
And too often we see it it's apolitical thing to try to get
(21:20):
people sort of fired up andwaving their swords.
You know I've heard so manypeople lately say, oh, I think
it's great that they're pushingphysical fitness.
Okay, of course you're notgoing to find a bigger fan than
me.
You got to get the right peopleto do it.
I'm a fan of ArnoldSchwarzenegger.
I like him.
I don't think he's perfect, Idon't think any of us are, but I
(21:42):
like him.
I think he's funny.
I think he's done some reallygood things.
I like a lot of his movies, Ilike his Netflix thing, I like
his new podcast and he has hiredout.
Finally, because let me tell youI'm not taking health and
fitness advice from ArnoldSchwarzenegger.
He's the epitome of somebodywho had the great genetics and
(22:05):
he also very much admits that heused a lot of drugs so he got
huge.
He doesn't know what he'stalking about.
He knew what he was talkingabout.
For him.
He didn't know what he'stalking about.
He knew what he was talkingabout for him.
He didn't know what he'stalking about giving health and
fitness advice.
He's hired two differentprofessionals that work for him
with his emails and his podcastsand they're good.
And then he just reads it andthen he agrees with it and he
(22:27):
does do a good job of promotinghealthy lifestyle, Absolutely.
And now, in his 70s, he admitshe's not the expert on that.
He's an expert on bodybuilding,of course.
I mean, if I wanted a posingcoach, somebody that helped me
get up there and know how topose better, he'd be my guy for
sure, and I think he's smart.
He's not a health and fitnessexpert.
(22:47):
He's had the experiencepersonally.
He doesn't have the experienceworking with people, nor the
education.
So I say that because he was inthat role under the Bush
administration and he shouldn'thave been.
I mean, he's a great like, lookfor it because you're going to
(23:10):
get the exposure, but he doesn'thave the credentials to be
talking about back then what hewas even talking about.
So a lot of this is popping upagain, I think because of the
political push and I think justbecause social media is growing
even more, and I just wanted toshare with you those statistics
so you can see that you want toget the professionals to help
you with whatever it is.
(23:31):
If you need medical advice tohelp you with whatever it is, if
you need medical advice, go toyour doctor.
If you need to know aboutpandemics and epidemics and
stuff like that, trust realepidemiologists, not some rando
on Facebook trying to talk abouttrends.
If you want health and fitnessadvice, make sure that your
(23:57):
trainer or your strength andconditioning coach, or whoever
you see for that, or yourwellness coach, has at least a
bachelor's degree in health andfitness and is certified through
one of the four accreditedcertifications the American
College of Sports Medicine, theNational Strength and
Conditioning Association, theAmerican Council on Exercise or
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the National Academy of SportsMedicine.
Those are the only four.
Other than that, don't listen,just keep scrolling, keep moving
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