hey what's up guys welcome back to the
channel so
it looks like everybody's talking about
fake weights once again
however this time it doesn't have to do
with brad castleberry
or jeff from athleanx in fact it has to
do with somebody who
i never thought i would be talking about
on my youtube channel and it's chris
cuomo from cnn fake news
and what makes the story so hilarious to
me
and i i need you guys to comment down
below just for my own
mental sanity okay whether you saw the
photo or the video
you guys had to have known this was a
fake 100 pound dumbbell
and that's what makes it so laughable it
is so obvious
that he is lifting a fake 100 pound
dumbbell
that when i first saw the photo like
five weeks ago
even before mark from tiger fitness made
his video on the whole thing
calling out chris como betting him like
a thousand dollars to prove he lifted
weight
my wife showed it to me because we were
in bed you know looking at tick tocks
and stuff late at night
and this like tick tock popped up and it
said you know fake news and
fake weight and it showed the photo and
erica's like you should make a video
about that
and i said ah i don't know babe like
it's so obvious that it's fake
and he has nothing to do with the
fitness community why why would anybody
even care about this right
and now i have to go over to the board
that shows how many times i'm right
and how many times erica's right and i
had to put a check over on her
board and add to the rest of her checks
i don't want to talk about it
[Laughter]
but anyways she was right people are
talking about it and good for mark for
jumping on the story because
i didn't think it would go anywhere i
didn't think anybody cared about it but
now you've got somebody like joe rogan
who is into fitness has been around
fitness
into ufc you know clearly should have
some basic knowledge on what it takes to
lift 100 pounds over your head
and he's on his podcast telling people
that the weight is real
i saw these people that are complaining
and saying it's not real and
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listen you can do that that can be done
even though it says cuomo prime time on
it and he's lifting it like it's a
freaking
rice cracker telling people that the
weight is real
because he's italian and joe's italian
and they once knew this italian guy that
owned a sub shop that could
curl his own body weight 10 times
therefore italians are really strong
i mean it's just so laughable and i
thought joe rogan was trolling too until
i watched you know the majority of the
segment
i mean it's a two and a half hour long
podcast talk about a lot of different
stuff
you know he brings it up and you know
you can tell that he clearly
has you know seen the story before he
started his podcasts how he knew about
it
so he had plenty of time to dig into it
and see
he could have gone to his gym or if he
has weights in his house he i mean he
has kettlebells i guess
i mean i got a dumbbell right here can
literally look in a mirror
and just hold it here and just see the
tension that happens in your body
from holding a hundred pound dumbbell
like the veins in my neck are popping
out
the veins in my head are starting to pop
out and there's no way i'm gonna move
this dumbbell to here
let alone press it over my head like if
i have 100 pound dumbbell in my chest my
arm right now i could press it i could
press it
and i'm sitting on a bench chris cuomo
who's in
his office computer chair which is
designed to rock
back and forth for comfort and he's
holding this dumbbell over his head and
typing
as if he's doing core exercises sure
enough
joe rogan plays the clip and talks about
it and he's like
yeah yeah oh yeah that's that's
definitely a real weight yeah
yeah he's italian i'm italian i'm
italian i could say this
he's a guinea right a lot of those
guineas are stupid strong
and he goes on to justify it and stuff
like this i think is
is very damaging because why for the
same reason we talked about it with
jeff and brad it's like you don't want
to set false
expectations for people because they
could then hurt themselves
if they think okay well this 50 year old
news anchor who he's in okay shape he
has like decent arms
you know if he can just pick up a
hundred pound dumbbell and hold through
over his head and do computer work
then i should be able to do it because i
exercise all the time
and if this guy can do it i can do it
and then maybe i go and grab some
weights
and i hurt myself granted i think that's
a really far
fetched thing to happen but that was
kind of like mark lobliner's you know
justification for making his video
and calling out chris como he's like
people can get hurt if you set false
expectations
but for me i kind of dug a little deeper
into it
and i was like well why is this guy even
holding a dumbbell to begin with or
why does he have a fake weight like if
somebody bought him a gag
gift of a 100 pound paperweight and
that's actually what i think it is it
gets like a paperweight for his office
which would explain why it's in his
office
how many of you have weights in your
office if you're gonna have weights in
your office you're going to have ones
that you can actually use like you might
have a pair of 10 or 15s
so you can do a quick set of curls or
like shoulder presses right if you're
trying to get a little bit of a pump
while you're
you're sitting down working all day
you're going to have a random 100-pound
dumbbell that you can use for like one
exercise
maybe a goblet squat and speaking of
goblet squats so
i went on chris cuomo's instagram page
you know and if you scroll past
all the fake news you know a little bit
you'll get to some of his fitness videos
that he made
when the covid outbreak first happened i
think it was back in march
that i saw the these videos were posted
on his account and so because he's a
fitness enthusiast he wanted to give
tips to help people exercise from home
and i said okay well you know maybe this
is why he got that gift
it's because he likes to give fitness
advice and then i watch some of his
videos and i quickly realized that
while although he looks like to be in
pretty good shape
he really has no idea what the hell he's
talking about when it comes to simple
exercises
like squatting and dead lifting for
example
in the same video he's teaching how to
do a goblet squat
he tells you to breathe out as you sit
which we all know is a big
you're gonna come up the no-no is tight
stomach tight butt
so breathe out on the way down but
stomachs out
okay and then the last exercise i
honestly thought because the volume
wasn't on yet you know sometimes you're
like on instagram and you're watching a
video if you tap the screen the volume
shuts off
i thought he was teaching a romanian
deadlift because of how much he was bent
over which even when doing a romanian
deadlift
you're not supposed to be horizontal
because you're going for a hamstring
stretch
it doesn't involve bending your lower
back
your lower back might bend as a result
of pushing your hips back
to get that stretch in your hamstrings
so my goal he's teaching a romanian
deadlift he's doing it wrong
and then i heard the audio and he was
actually teaching how to do just a
regular deadlift and i was like oh my
gosh this guy's giving
terrible workout advice on his page he
should just stick to delivering the news
or
what he thinks is news right and so
the moral of the story and all this is
is i guess
you never really know who you can trust
right
i don't like watch a lot of joe rogan
but
i mean for me personally what i've
always heard about him is that he kind
of like speaks his mind he might not be
the smartest guy
in one thing in particular but he has a
good amount of knowledge
across the board on a lot of things
which is why he brings a lot of
different guests on his show
but for things that are fitness related
i've always seen him active
you know in fitness whether it's working
out or ufc you know training himself
like he
obviously was incredible shape growing
up he's still in great shape now
a guy like him i would probably listen
to
more on his fitness advice because he
looks like he's
been through it and he's worked out or
trained with people
who are incredibly strong and capable of
great things
but for him to watch the same video clip
that we watched and then to try to
convince
us that the weights were real i just
think is
absolutely ridiculous and it makes me
wonder why
he would even go as far as to do that
and if you
rewind that that podcast back a little
bit from that section
i think the whole reason why they were
yeah the whole reason why they were
talking about chris cuomo to begin with
is i guess because this like this this
video surfaced of
a guest that was going to be on the news
of chris cuomo and he was
coaching him on the questions he was
gonna ask him
so he'd be prepared to answer them
better and so
joe was saying well if i had somebody on
my show who i liked i would do the same
thing and i would coach them
to make them better at answering the
questions so they look good like
if you were going to be on let's just be
honest right i'm going to be honest with
you folks yeah
if tim dillon was involved in some
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and yeah i had an interview on my
podcast right what do i say
because you
i would say this is what you should say
right yeah especially if i was trying to
help you
right which i guess is fine if you're
having somebody who's your friend come
on your show you don't want to make them
look bad
but i don't know so like based on that
old justification maybe he's friends
with chris cuomo and he's just trying to
nonchalantly be like oh yeah he's super
strong
or maybe he's just in on the joke and he
wants to get more people
watching chris cuomo because that's why
he did it to begin with right
it was obviously done as a gag to get
people to talk about him and it worked
because we're all talking about him
people who probably didn't know who
chris cuomo is probably now know who he
is
and are going to go to his instagram
page and listen to the things that he is
saying
so i don't know maybe that was part of
joe's master plan as well so
you can come from it from this side of
the spectrum and think that
hey you know joe's pretty stupid if he
thinks that chris can actually
lift that 100-pound dumbbell or you can
come from this side and play devil's
advocate and be like
of course joe knows that he can't lift
it but joe's friends with chris
and he wants to push his political
narrative so
he's going to kind of go along with the
gag and get people to go check out
chris's instagram page
i don't know i mean i'll leave it up to
you guys to decide what you really think
is going on
i mean i hope he knows better but
i mean some people do some pretty dumb
stuff we all do dumb thing we all make
mistakes here and there but i mean this
is a pretty ridiculous mistake
but if any of you can actually overhead
press a hundred pound dumbbell while
sitting in your computer chair
send me my video send me a video of that
dm it to me scotthermanfitness on
instagram
and i'll repost it because that's pretty
badass if you can i don't think any of
you can do it but if you can do it i
mean
i'm willing to be stand corrected and
repost it
hope you guys have a great rest of your
day hope you got a good laugh out of
this i mean
it's pretty ridiculous but it is what it
is
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