All right guys. So we're going to start out this video a little differently.
I want all of you to go down in the comment section below,
and I want to leave an honest comment to the question I'm about to ask you how
many of you enjoy being lied to or misled? Comment down below right now
I want to see an honest answer.
I want to see an honest answer from you guys saying either yes,
I enjoy being lied to or misled or no, I don't enjoy being lied to or misled.
And for those of you who say, yes,
you're absolutely full of shit and you know it,
and the reason why I'm talking about this is because another video came out a
recent video from Jeff at athlean X,
where it kind of looked like he was basically packaging the video
around him doing heavy deadlifts. That's what it came across to is me.
And the reason why we're even talking about this is because about a month ago,
people started noticing or calling Jeff out on using fake weights on some of his
lifts. Now, I even made a video about this myself. I said, in my video, Hey,
you know what, sometimes you're doing long photo shoots or video shoots.
You get tired.
Maybe you're using fake weights just to kind of get through the day without having
to kill yourself, because you still have your own training to do other work.
You have to do whatever the reason might be.
I've been on photo shoots where there's fake weights and,
and that aspect to that.
I don't think it really matters because you're not claiming to lift, you know,
a certain amount of weight,
but then it was brought to my attention after I made the video that Jeff in fact
was claiming that he was doing a touch and go with 495 pounds on his
deadlift.
Now, as we get up here touching sort of almost at 500 pounds,
this is where I feel like I'm just not, I'm not mastering it the way I should.
And after closer inspection.
It's a lot more obvious that he's trying to make his body and his
mouth. And he's like yelling.
He's trying to make it look like it is real weight when in fact it isn't.
So with this whole thing happening,
a lot of other YouTube channels have been making videos and calling him out on
this as they should.
Because for those of you who answered down in the comment section that you don't
like being lied to or misled,
you're going to have to rely on other fitness channels,
calling out bullshit from people that are spewing it. For example,
I'll use myself.
I did a response video to Greg Doucette on what's next what's obtainable
naturally. Um, in terms of building muscle,
I did a response video in that video.
I fudged up some of my numbers and I didn't even realize that I did it until
people called me out Allen from every damn day fitness had a field day.
Nobody from Boston sounds like that, motherfucker. Nobody, nobody.
Talking all kinds of smack about me in the numbers that I said.
And some of his buddies, I forget their names. They're not important.
They made videos too. And so after seeing all this stuff go down,
I made a response video and I said, Hey,
it looks like I messed up some of my numbers. Sorry about that.
Didn't mean to here's a video from six or seven years ago where I referenced the
same studies, but I didn't mess up the numbers.
And then I re re re data and corrected myself.
And then I moved on with my life. There's nothing wrong with being fact checked,
but I do have a problem with the double standard.
Where the same people that are fact checking everyone else.
Don't fact check their boy. And it's because they want to protect them.
I don't understand the reason why I think when you're friends with somebody,
I feel like my friends bust my balls more than anybody else around me.
And that's why they're my friends. Okay. You know,
maybe they don't even make a video about Jeff, but maybe they can be like,
Hey man, those weights are fake. Maybe you should just admit to it.
And what irritates me is from all of this happening
and from all these people, like it's not even like one person mentioned it.
And then he kind of moved on and forgot about it.
So many people are talking about it and making it known and
proving that the weights are fake for him to straight up.
Ignore it just to me is like,
he thinks he's up on this cloud and he's looking down at everybody else and they
don't matter. He's like,
I don't give a shit about all of you because I have my fan boys that are gonna
support me no matter what I do, no matter what I say.
And they're going to believe me one a hundred percent, no matter what I say.
And I think there's a problem with that because when it comes to fitness and it
comes to training, one person does not hold all the knowledge.
There's lots of things that I agree with Greg. I mean, yeah, with Greg,
there's lots of things I agree with Jeff about.
And there's things that I disagree and I'm not the only person,
but that's okay because that is how fitness has gotten to be where it
is now. Differences of opinion.
Being able to come to come together and talk about these things.
And there's nothing wrong with that. That is what intelligent people do. Now,
the problem I have with the video that Jeff recently put out and it looks like
some other YouTubers pointed out the same things.
I watched the videos from vegan gains from Sean and Greg most recent
video calling out, um, Jeff on this video as well. Is that,
like I said earlier, he's showing how to basically progressive overload,
which is great. You know,
progressive overload is what most people don't do in the gym.
That's why Greg tells everybody to train harder than last time.
And he's a hundred percent, right? Most people don't train hard. In fact,
the majority of clients that I work with when I finally put them through an
actual workout, they can't even believe how much intensity there is in it.
And for someone like me,
I'm like that wasn't even the hardest work I'm going to have you do.
But people just aren't used to training intense, but anyways,
that's a whole separate point. But the problem is that video looks like I said,
it was packaged around him being able to do a heavy deadlift.
And when he does the heavy deadlift, I mean, his form starts breaking down.
When he gets to like 375 pounds, he's already tossing on a belt.
And then he does his max pull at like 425 with his form being absolute
and complete garbage. Okay. He's bent over so much.
He's barely pushing through his legs, a lot of flection in the spine.
And you can tell that he's really,
which is good because you could tell those weights were real.
And if you compare that to the 495 touch and go, you know,
you can tell which one is him lifting actual weights now.
And this is very important.
Cause I know you guys are going to talk shit down in the comment section because
majority of you, aren't going to watch the entire video before you talk shit.
Because that's just how YouTube is nowadays.
It's very volatile and disgusting place where people go to troll instead of
learn. It's not like it was five or six years ago.
It was a lot happier place back then. But regardless, we're going to keep going.
I'm not saying that Jeff does not know how to coach a deadlift. Okay?
You can be a phenomenal coach and you can teach exercises with immaculate
form. It doesn't mean that you're going to be good at all of them. To me,
Jeff is just not good at deadlifting and even squatting, but on squatting,
he tells you to breathe out as you descend, which is terrible advice,
it's going to put you on a whole, a whole world of hurt if you actually do it.
Okay. But you know, maybe he likes the deadlift
occasionally his form breaks down as much as it does when he starts to lift
heavy because he doesn't do it. If you guys watch powerlifters,
even when they're doing like a one rep max for the most part, their form,
isn't really breaking down that much. I mean,
there's going to be some form breakdown,
but not to the extent of Jeff's form breakdown. Why?
Cause he does not do the exercise all the time.
Then another issue I had with the video is he talks about progressive overload
and there's three things in particular, um,
in relationship to the deadlift that I didn't like. Number one,
he talks about doing deficit deadlifts as a way to increase, you know,
how far you're picking the bar up off the ground.
Now when I teach deficit deadlift.
I'm usually teaching it to my clients because they have a really hard time
engaging their hamstrings and glutes at the bottom of the movement.
And I use a deficit deadlift as a technique to get them stronger at
pulling the debt, lift off the floor, off the ground.
Now you don't have to necessarily use it specifically to get better at pulling
off the floor.
But Jeff didn't really provide any context around why you would do a deficit
deadlift. Other than you increase the amount of the,
the height that you lift the bar off the ground, which is like very base form.
Okay. And the same thing with the chains, you know, he's like, Oh,
you can make the exercise heavier at the top by adding chains.
But I feel like he only said that because he was talking about using bands on
the bicep curl. And he was just trying to show like the same thing,
really explaining like, Hey,
this is going to help you with that lockout portion of it.
The top of the deadlift things that you would think about more,
if you dead lifted, you know,
normally all the time or had it as a part of your current workout program,
these are the things that you would just think about cause you're actually doing
them. And then the other issue I had as he talks about rest time method,
number seven has to do with the pace at which you perform your lip.
Pacing can be something incredibly effective for creating overload.
This is actually something that Greg talked about, his video,
where Jeff is saying, if you're doing five sets,
it's a three repetitions and you're resting for four minutes.
That if you want to make the exercise harder only rest for three minutes.
And the problem I have with that is I'm no professional power lifter,
but it's quite common knowledge that when you're trying to train heavier nine
times out of 10, you're going to increase the amount of rest time.
Cause if you shorten that rest time, because Jeff said,
if you shorten the rest time,
you can get more work without having to decrease the weight.
I guarantee if you're lifting for your three rep max,
and you're trying to do another set of that, or even if it's like 85% of your,
of what you can lift.
If you're trying to do another set and you're resting now,
even less time a whole minute,
you probably not going to get all three repetitions.
You're going to be too fatigued. You're going to be tired.
Cause when you lift heavy, you need that recovery time.
So just very minor things that I kind of pulled from the video that goes to
show,
you know why Jeff probably used the fake weights in his videos back in the day
because it's not an exercise he does all the time. Maybe,
maybe at one point when he was younger, he was able to deadlift 500 pounds.
It's quite possible. I'm sure he's not weak. Jeff is very smart.
He's very strong dude. But you know,
you don't get stronger or better at an exercise over time. If it's something,
if it's not something when that you don't do regularly,
which is probably why the 425 was his max.
But my whole point here guys is why is,
why is there a double standard here what's wrong with just being honest and
truthful with your community. I don't really understand why there's such a,
I really don't understand why it's such a big deal for people to just admit when
they're wrong, because I feel like it just makes you a better person.
It shows that you have some pride and integrity and the things that you do at
most he just responded to Greg's first video about the steroid accusations.
He left hole comment, a huge paragraph, but not once.
Did he address the fake weights. Why, what is the problem?
Does he really think he's going to lose so much credibility?
If he admits that he had fake weights in a previous video?
I don't think he will. People make mistakes.
And I think his community would actually be happier if he just admitted it and
moved on because then people would stop making videos about it.
So what do you guys think comment down below the comment section.
Do you guys think he should just own up to it?
Admit it and move on so we can stop talking about it because personally I think
it's really stupid. I could care less either way,
but it's a hot topic right now. People are talking about it.
And I have my own opinion for reasons that I addressed in this video.
But if you're sick of all the drama and you want to get back to learning about
exercise form and how to train correctly and how to push your limits,
I've got a playlist of videos right here that you can check out.
And for those of you who are going back to the gym,
if you're looking for a new program, they get back on track,
you can download my guaranteed gains program for free PDF. You download, you,
print it out. You go to the gym and the games are guaranteed. It's in the name.
Anyways, hope you guys stay safe. And as always we'll get stuff coming soon.
See ya.