and gym culture are in,
and they seem to be only
growing in popularity.
People have gone jogging in
super brightly colored jackets
in the 80s, but now it's all
about hitting the weights
and eating a ton of chicken.
That being said, there's some shady things
about the bodybuilding world
that you should be aware of.
Keep watching to find out the
secrets behind the industry
before you start chugging
a load of protein powder.
- Amazing.
Number 10
The whole supplement
industry is built on the idea
that you need to supplement your diet,
it's right there in the name.
Selling supplements is the
number one way that bodybuilders,
as well as other fitness
gurus, actually make money.
In reality, however, the
average person simply does not
need to supplement their
diet with anything.
Decades of scientific
research has failed to produce
any substantial evidence
that supplements and vitamins
actually do anything
significant to your body.
Special protein powders
and other supplements
aren't why bodybuilders are so giant.
Bodybuilders get most of their protein
from eating actual food
that is high in protein
like chicken, beef, and fish.
Aesthetically speaking,
supplements have come a long way
from the old Flintstones tablets,
and you can get cool-looking
ones that are transparent
and have tons of little balls inside,
but the reality is that they just don't
really do all that much.
Some bodybuilding supplements
can even be dangerous,
despite not really doing anything.
Number nine
You've no doubt seen the
slew of attractive Instagram
and YouTube fitness E-celebrities,
who seemingly make a living
simply by posting pictures
and videos of themselves working out.
Well, some of them may
not actually be as strong
as they would like you to think.
There's recently been a lot
of pretty compelling cases
of these fitness gurus getting called out
for using fake weights.
Basically, the idea is that your advice,
your supplements, your whatever,
seem a lot more legitimate
if you yourself are really strong.
If you're not actually really strong,
then you can just make people
think you're really strong,
by using weights that are
actually lighter than they look.
Perhaps the best example of
this is Gracyanne Barbosa,
a Brazilian Instagram
model, who posted a video
that many have questioned,
where in she appears to squat
495 pounds almost 10 times.
For those of you who may not
spend a lot of time in the gym,
the reason people are
skeptical of this video
is because people who can squat
almost 500 pounds for reps,
tend to look more like this, than this.
Another point of reference
would be Olympic Medalist
and power-lifting record
holder, Chen Wei-Ling,
whose been doing strength
training her whole life,
and can only squat 462 pounds.
Number eight
There are a ton of supplements
on the market out there
for people looking to get big,
but just how safe are they?
Well, the following press
release may give you an idea.
It's from May 1st, 2009.
Fourteen Hydroxycut products
are being recalled voluntarily
by the manufacturer after
the FDA received 23 reports
of serious liver injuries,
ranging from jaundice to death.
Hydroxycut was discontinued in 2009,
but had been operating since 2002.
Until the brand disappeared,
it was actually one of the most
respected supplements out there.
And their fat burners were
their most popular product.
What takes the whole instant
to a new level of shady,
however, was they never
confessed about what had actually
caused the problem.
For all we know, there
could be other companies
who are doing whatever
it was they were doing,
that went wrong.
Because bodybuilding
supplements fall into an unusual
category with the FDA, not all
of them are even regulated.
Added to this, once you buy them,
you seemingly have to keep buying them.
One such example is pre-workout.
Pre-workout is super popular
in the bodybuilding community,
but users say that once you've
started lifting with the help
of its formula, which is
sort of like the effects of
caffeine times two, it can be
hard to go back to just using
your bodys natural energy.
You'd be correct for thinking
it can not be entirely safe.
In fact, some people have
suffered from abnormal
hear rhythms after long-term uses
of certain pre-workout formulas.
Number seven
As you can imagine, lifting weights,
a hobby which entails not
only picking up heavy things
and putting them down repeatedly,
but constantly trying to
pick up and put down heavier
and heavier things,
is a hobby which can lead
to a lot of injuries.
Ronnie Coleman, eight-time Mr. Olympia,
considered by most to be one
of the greatest bodybuilders
of all time, has had four spinal surgeries
and a double hip replacement.
Despite the fact that his
injuries have actually left him
unable to walk, he's actually
said that the only thing
he regrets is doing only
two reps instead of four,
when he famously squatted 800 pounds.
Dorian Yates, six-time Mr. Olympia,
tore his bicep, his quadriceps,
and almost tore his tricep
completely in two.
I don't think I could even move an object
that would be heavy enough to
tear my tricep muscle in half.
Old school bodybuilder
Dave Draper once said
that a determined bodybuilder
is driven, daring, intense,
and injury-bound.
So the moral to the story is,
if you wanna get into bodybuilding,
be aware of the risks.
Number six
Bodybuilders don't train like the majority
of the lifting population,
which is one of the reasons
that they don't look like
the majority of the lifting population.
Pros also are not in the gym
24/7 working out constantly.
Dorian Yates would workout
one hour, four times a week.
Veteran bodybuilders know that
you can only workout so much
before what you're really doing
is preventing your
muscles from recovering.
The actual lifting weights
part of being a bodybuilder
is usually what gets the
spotlight, but most bodybuilders,
when they're not trying
to sale you a supplement
that will magically solve your problems,
will admit that diet is
probably a bigger part
of their success.
Bodybuilders don't eat
like normal humans at all.
For instance, they usually
eat five or six meals a day.
Number five
I've already mentioned how
bodybuilders aren't strangers
to torn muscles, but
what's more concerning
is that your heart is one of
the muscles that you can tear.
Aortic dissection is when
you tear the inner layer
of the aorta, the large
blood vessel branching off
from your heart, and
it can actually happen
due to lifting weights.
While the number of cases
where they can confidently
point to weight lifting as
the cause of a torn aorta
is small, if you have a
history of aortic dilation
and hypertension, you
really need to be careful.
Really, if you have any
sort of cardiac problems,
you should seriously consider
your choice to get into
bodybuilding, which I know
you have been considering,
because of the previous
examples in this video.
Andrej Gajdos was a 19 year
old aspiring bodybuilder
from the United Kingdom, who
unfortunately died in 2015
when his aorta exploded.
He was 7'2", weighed 280 pounds.
The doctor who performed the autopsy
said that he was not a normal man.
"It is extremely rare for a young person
"to have a torn aorta like that.
"I've only seen one
other case in 15 years."
His steroid use also played a
major role in his torn aorta.
Number four
Most people probably don't
suspect that people who look like
Greek statues or comic heroes
are some of the most likely
to deal with body dysmorphia.
However, a study published in
the Journal of Psychopathology
that investigated male
and female participants
in activities that
require certain physique,
bodybuilding included, found
that bodybuilders were more
likely to be dissatisfied
with their bodies,
and have unhealthy eating disorders
than the normal population.
It may seem counterintuitive at first,
since you think that someone
whose made of 200 pounds of
muscle probably feels
confident with their body,
seeing as how seven out of every
10 Americans are overweight
or obese, and they're light
years ahead of the general
population in terms of fitness.
But the people who look like
that today, got that way
because for whatever reason,
they were dissatisfied
with what their body
looked like originally.
That mindset is what helped
them reach their goal.
But it's not something
that's easily left behind.
So bodybuilders can get stuck thinking
that they're still that
tiny dude they were before.
Number three
impossible to make it.
The harsh reality of bodybuilding is that
only a tiny percentage of people make it,
in the sense that they go pro,
and make a living as a bodybuilder
without having a day job.
Bodybuilding has never,
and likely never will be,
an extremely popular
spectator competition.
So there simply isn't the
level of money and sponsors
involved as there are in
more mainstream sports.
Bodybuilding competitions
usually aren't even televised,
with the exception of the
biggest few every year.
But this isn't the only
reason that it's difficult
to make it.
A minority of people have the genetics
to really make it far in bodybuilding.
Bodybuilding requires broad
shoulders, a narrow waist,
as well as long muscle bellies
at the highest level of competition.
Past a certain point, there's
just no way to train your way
out of these genetic disadvantages,
and it's probably the sport where genetics
play the biggest role.
Number two
it's bad for your health.To clarify, hitting the
gym and lifting weights
on a regular basis, is
actually very healthy.
It helps with weight loss,
improves bone density,
lowers your risk of diabetes,
improves the overall health
of you heart, prevents back pain,
and even helps you sleep better.
The super tan guys up on
the stage wearing speedos,
however, are not exactly
the pinnacle of health.
For starters, their body fat percentage
is in the low single digits.
For reference, the normal healthy range
is somewhere around 15 to 25.
This need for crazy low
body fat in order to look
as muscular as possible,
is particularly dangerous
for female body builders.
When a woman's body fat gets that low,
their pituitary gland automatically
reduces the production
of crucial hormones that the ovaries need.
It can even stop the menstrual cycle.
This has its own related
problems, such as shrinkage
of internal organs, loss of muscle tissue,
and damage to the nervous system.
It can even in some cases lead to death.
Number one
Steroids are sort of an open secret
in the world of bodybuilding.
Steroids are one of the reasons Rich Piana
had such an unhealthy and enlarged heart.
And the list of additional
health risks associated
with steroid use is numerous.
Bodybuilding competitions
do not test for steroids.
And everyone knows that everyone
else is also on steroids.
Yes, even the women.
And yes, even in divisions like physique,
where having the most total
muscle mass is not the
number one factor in winning.
Yes, even Instagram and
YouTube fitness experts.
You have to remember,
those people make a living
based on their physique, too.
The reason why everyone is
on steroids but nobody can
really admit that they're
on steroids, is twofold.
Firstly, the fitness
industry needs faces to use
in order to sale supplements, equipment,
workout programs, and everything.
If people thought that the
people on posters looked
the way they do primarily due to steroids
more than any other factor,
they probably would not be as likely
to buy whatever product they're selling.
Secondly, steroids are
illegal in the United States.
Law enforcement does not
place a high priority
on rounding up bodybuilders,
finding their steroids,
and tossing them in jail.
But you still can't really
just straight up say
that you take steroids.
Possibly more concerning than steroids,
is the widespread use of
HGH, or human growth hormone.
At the top level of competition,
this drug is why you see
so many bodybuilders with six-pack abs
and next to no body fat,
somehow also have big,
extended stomachs.
This is because HGH does
not only help your muscles
to expand, it helps your organs expand.
Does that sound healthy to you?
Do you know any other secrets
that I should have mentioned?
And have you experienced any
of these issues firsthand?
Let me know what you
think in the comments.
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