so for those of you who don't know there was a channel run by a man named Alan
Roberts and his channel is called every damn day fitness and some people have a
problem with his channel and that's what we're gonna be talking about today what
is up everybody this is Chris from the rewired soul where we talk about the
problem but focus on the solution and if you're new to my channel what I try to
do take different topics going on in the YouTube community try to see what
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cool news and all that stuff alright so anyways let me clarify real quick on the
title I just I couldn't really think of another way to title it I I don't have a
problem with Alan Roberts or what he does on his channel I respect the hell
out of this dude and you're gonna see why in this video all right but when I
look at his channel and I see what he's doing and I see other things happening
in the community or just even in society I look at the difference between like
the mental health stigma and talking about my body appearance and everything
like that and it's just really fascinating to me and I just kind of
want to open this up and try to have a conversation with everybody and see what
your thoughts are on this topic all right now real quick too even though I
just cleared that up then I don't have a problem Alan Roberts before anybody so
bombarded me with the fat jokes listen bucko I've been hitting the gym like a
boss I try to do about at least two miles a day or so I'm also vegetarian
I'm trying to watch what I eat and all that stuff
anyways Alan Roberts have you ever watched this you want to hook it up with
some fitness tips hit me up brother all right
so anyways let's talk about his channel every day every damn day fitness
all right so yeah basically you know his expertise Alan's expertise is in Fitness
you know you don't really need to do too much resource research like look at this
dude like you can benchpress me all right
but anyways fitness is a great topic you know on YouTube it's a great topic on
Instagram he has like 35,000 on Instagram as well
but he's done something very interesting in order to teach people about the
importance of living a physically healthy lifestyle which could also help
your mental health as well in order to do that what Alan Roberts often does is
he takes mainstream examples whether it's youtubers like boogie2988 um I
think he's also made some videos on amberlynn weed
he's also used people like TAS holiday and he uses that as an example and it
gives his thoughts and opinions in order to teach the audience about that but he
doesn't just take examples of people who he feels are doing things wrong but he
also finds people who are doing things right so he finds mainstream examples of
people who are doing the physical health thing and he tries to teach the audience
about that and it's working I believe he has almost 200,000 subscribers and some
of you watching this video you're like dang Chris that sounds really familiar
somebody taking mainstream examples and using that as a way to educate people
about some sort of health topic alright so for those of you who don't know my
channel has been deemed controversial by some because I talk about mental health
and something that I found was something that Alan Roberts found as well as when
we have examples going on in the mainstream one way to get traction on
YouTube and you know to get your videos out there is to use mainstream examples
when we're talking about this right so where as he's talking about physical
health I'm talking about mental health right and here's a thing like this isn't
a video to be like but but but what about this guy none
like I love what Alan Roberts is doing like because that's the type of learner
I am and I know a lot of other people are that type of learner as well
you need some example that you can relate to in order to kind of soak this
in but like I said at the beginning of this video like I just kind of want to
talk to you guys like what I really think is like with all the backlash that
I've received in the past is as I feel it shows you like how much of a mental
health stigma is still out there right like we have no problem on a regular
basis and this has been going on forever right like look at magazine covers and
everything like that we have no problem talking about people's physical health
we have no problem talking about people's physical appearance but the
second you talk about mental health that's when things get weird right and I
just think that's interesting because one of my goals in life and I might have
just attacked it too soon was I want to be able to talk about mental health just
as easily as we talk about physical health right now like I said in the
intro there's some people who have a problem with what Alan Roberts is doing
but I don't really see a problem with that anything that's put out there
publicly is up to discuss like I just watched a few of his videos and I can
tell that he's not coming from a place of malice it's a place of concern
whether it's the people he's referencing in the video or the audience as a whole
he's not saying like this is a terrible person this is a bad person but he knows
the influence that people have right for example like what I'm saying is like I
have a platform I have influence maybe hypothetically Alan made a video
about me like I'm on this platform so if I was here saying like oh I'm healthy
and here's what I stuff like that like he would say yo
what that dudes doing is a bad example and I can't really argue with that right
so I think it's a point that we talk about behaviors and everything to try to
see what we could do to improve our own mental health as well and this isn't
something that is specific to Alan Roberts either so my beautiful
girlfriend Tristan she actually got me into a channel
Abby sharp all right so Abby showed her expertise is in like physical health as
well I believe she's a dietician and twisting and I will watch videos about
like she kind of analyzes like what I eat in a day videos like we were just
watching one the other day where she analyzed a Gabby can a video but anyway
she comes in there and just talks like is this healthy or is this unhealthy is
this good or is this bad like I think that I don't know that's an excellent
way to teach and maybe that's just the way I learned maybe that's the way some
of you learn as well now getting back to the topic so Alan Roberts his expertise
is in physical health but in his most recent boogie2988 video he said this
honestly I just think he should get impatient therapy but he needs serious
intensive psychiatric help along with physical help to help him lose weight
lose the rest of the weight and deal with his issues because the man has
problems he does so this is not meant to demean or be mean to him I even said to
him at the end of the long ridiculous childlike rant in my Instagram DMS that
I would not make any more videos about him if he didn't say anything dangerous
to his audience now he's his niece his physical health so some people would say
he has no right to comment on the mental health of boogie2988 I'm gonna link that
video down below if you want to get the full context because I somewhat agree
and disagree with what he's saying I referenced it in my last video because
Boogie is very open about his mental health and it struggles and everything
so but I understand Alan Roberts concern right much like
myself and much like other Creators our concern is for the the larger group of
people right so he's speaking his opinion about boogie
talking about these things very publicly because he's thinking about how it might
affect somebody so I don't think that he should not talk about that subject just
because he is not a mental health expert he has every right to that opinion
because again anything that any of us put out publicly I feel or up to be
discussed publicly by others you know what I mean
so the last thing I'll talk about is one thing that I look at when I look at you
know these Fitness channels and everything like that I absolutely agree
like one of the reasons I'm going to the gym and everything and trying to eat a
little bit better is because physical health matters right but I actually used
to be like about 200 pounds lighter and I was miserable I was depressed like
back in high school I was a triathlete I was very physically active I lifted
weights I was actually pretty strong if you could believe that by anyways I was
miserable I was depressed so something that I try to remind people is like yeah
make sure you get your physical health in check like you absolutely should but
just know that it is not going to guarantee happiness and the reason I say
that in caution people about that is because some people like oh if I could
just lose X amount of pounds then I'll be happy or oh if my butt was just a
little bit more toned then I would be happy right if my biceps were just this
certain diameter then I would be happy right and this is a lie that our brain
tells us like almost in the same vein as if I only had this much money then I
would be happy so the only thing that I try to remind people is physical health
and mental health are just as important like one of the reasons I started going
back to the gym recently is for my mental health I know I know the mental
health benefits of going to the gym getting that cardio in alright raising
that that heart rate and releasing like the endorphins and everything like that
and it's held down a lot I've discussed this on my podcast a bit so just keep
that in mind that physical health and mental health like it shouldn't be one
or another it should absolutely be both alright but anyways
let me know down in the comments below what your thoughts are on this subject
like do you think like there's kind of a double standard kind of like I'm talking
about like why is it okay to talk about physical health but not mental health
what are your thoughts what are your opinions on that alright but anyways
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