Hey, what's up guys, I'm Scott from Muscularstrength.com and in today's video
We're gonna be talking about something I saw on Instagram that really rubbed me the wrong way
But don't worry Gym Shark athletes. You're off the hook for this video. We'll get you next time
Alright guys, so I'm scrolling through my feet on Instagram an ad popped up for Chris Hemsworth's that say his name right this time?
Hemsworth see I kept saying hounds Worth and then my buddies are like it Hemsworth
And then it just got me all crazy in the head
I'm like, can we just say Thor? I was scrolling through Instagram and I saw Thor's new
Thor's new fitness app called CENTR
He drops his E I guess. But anyways, it was an ad for
His new fitness app called CENTR and from the outside looking in
It looks like it's a combination between him and his trainer that are doing all of the workouts
And I know it's his trainer because the same dude with the same
arm tattoo shows up at a bunch of videos on YouTube with Chris as they're working out together if you watch this video
and we're obviously gonna play it during this one if you watch this video and you look at the exercise selection of
What they did for the workout
Maybe to the average person. It looks like a cool workout, but for people who actually know what they're talking about
All right, you can quickly tell that the workout was just something that was thrown together to look cool
And unfortunately, that's what you find a lot when you go online and you go on YouTube and you download workout programs
It's just things that look great on paper
And then when you actually do the workout you can we find out that doesn't really make any sense
the app itself seems like a cross collaboration between
Chris and his trainer and basically just hey
I'm
Thor let's take advantage of me being Thor and this amazing body I built for Thor even though it looks like he shrank a lot
After the role was over, but hey, let's take advantage of all this publicity
Put out a fitness app and make tons of money. Right? I mean it makes sense the workout in the beginning
They're trying to make it sound super cool and they're like, alright, the only rule is don't drop the bar
So they put on
What looks to me about 40 to 50 pounds on the barbell and they're doing five rounds of eight exercises
ten reps for exercise, but problem is
once you see the exercise selection, it starts to not really make any sense because some of the exercises
you need more weight for and some exercises you need less weight for and
unless you have a kind of a heightened athletic ability and I would say just
Someone who works out as much as I do
Okay
Which is the majority of you guys
We could probably get a good workout doing this because we can lift a bit more weight than the average person
But the average person to do this workout isn't gonna be able to do it that well
And now I have all the exercises written down here
The first exercise was a close grip vertical row which first of all it's called an upright row
It's not called the vertical row. It's called an upright row and
Chris is holding the bar like this and we all know this is the most terrible way that you can do an upright row
alright
If you do an upright row you need to hold outside of shoulder width so that as you come up
You can bring the bar up and back and get your elbows below your wrists
So strike number one was poor form on the vertical row
Number two was lunges left and right doing ten repetitions
This exercise actually looked pretty cool
You're holding the bar on one side and then you're doing lunges all the way down all the way up
Ten repetitions on one side and then ten repetitions on the other side, but this is where things start to get tricky
Now remember the only rule is don't drop the bar
Lot of you can probably handle a lot more weight doing a lunge
Then you can doing an upright row with proper form
alright
And also if you don't have the core stability in order to do this on
One side and balance the bar, which the average person probably doesn't
It makes much more sense
Just to throw it up here
And then do each side like we want you guys to have an effective workout
Not just make it look cool. But unfortunately holding it in one arm looks a lot cooler
So that's why they did it that way
Number three overhead press okay again
Though form looks terrible all the way up push through all the way down
This is how you do an overhead, press I see a lot of this in the video because they're got going down past their nose
bar to chest
overhead, alright
exercise number four
Was close grip overhead tricep extension this one in the video actually looks pretty good
Going all the way down and all the way up just like that now, I'm really strong with my overhead tricep extension
So for me this would actually be way too easy for ten repetitions, even though I'm doing five rounds
And then number five we have a bent over row. Now what I didn't like about the bent over row is
In the video Chris, is that like a 30 degree
bending over 30 degrees and he has an overhand grip and he's pulling up to his nipples and it's like dude if
You already have a shoulder press and you already have an upright row
Why are you hammering your shoulder so much and your delt so much
You should be doing an underhand grip and you should be getting your body as parallel to the ground as possible
And you should be pulling in like this to hit your lats more. Maybe even engage your biceps a bit, but mostly
Focus on hitting those lats, right?
Then the next exercise is the biceps curl
Which I mean it's kind of hard to mess up a biceps curl, but when they show the trainer doing it
You know, he's doing the half reps like this
Which if you're gonna do half reps
It's not even worth doing full extension all the way up all the way down
All the way up all the way down. Then the final exercise was a deadlift and this is what really threw me off because
You're doing 10 repetitions of a deadlift with 40 and 50 pounds
What kind of effort does that take?
Okay, I went down already. I'm doing up going down
I'm going up going down going up. Alright for someone who deadlifts 315 for 10 doing this with 50 pounds
Does not make really any sense so it might sound cool
Don't drop the bar
But at the same time it's like if you're trying to get an effective workout
It's okay to change the weight and I notice a lot of trainers do this whenever they're putting someone through a workout
They don't want they don't give you the option to change the way whenever we do my workouts guys
I always tell you have multiple weights available if we're doing dumbbells have different pairs of dumbbells
Available so that as you go through the workout you can increase the intensity now
It looked like to me the footage where they had terrible form was probably because they were fatigued because they tried to use maybe weight
That was more challenging on some of the heavier exercises
so like a deadlift or the shoulder press
And then when they got to the barbell curls and the overhead extensions and the lunges, maybe it was too much for them
I don't know but overall
it didn't really make sense to me as a
Workout that I would want the average person to do because the average person isn't going to be able to pick one
static set of weight and be able to go through all these exercises and
get an efficient workout with proper form and that should be the number one thing here and it really bothers me when I see a
Celebrity trainer on video with their celebrity that they're training
So he's training Chris with in proper form
like there should be no reason why you're using bad form if you're a celebrity trainer because
when a trainer calls himself a celebrity trainer they basically in their own head are
Looking at all the other trainers in the room and putting themselves here
If you're gonna put yourself here, you better know how to do friggin Barbell bicep curl or an upright row like this
It's very basic stuff. So I haven't downloaded the app yet
I probably won't but just from seeing the ad the ad was cool the ad looked cool
The editing was great
but just seeing the exercise selection and how the
Exercises were executed in the order that they were and the range of motion and all of that. It just tells me one
They just did it for the money and that's really unfortunate
So, you know, I've done a video before I talked about Brie Larson
but I only talked about her because she started to come into my
space which is the training space when she was showing all of her videos on glute bridges with terrible form would her trainer like
standing over her as if he's gonna curl 405 or whatever the hell that was
You guys are actors and you're great
And you're a million times better than I'll ever be at acting
But when you start trying to come into my space and put out just crap routines because you want to make some money
That's when it starts to really bother me. Yes. This is a business. Yes. I produce content. Yes. I have an app. Yes
I'm trying to make a living here. But this is what I do for a living. All right, you can't just
Throw crap together and then call it ice cream and then serve it
To your fan base because you were Thor it just doesn't make sense
So pay more attention to what you're doing and guys you've got to be smart. You're gonna see stuff like this all the time
Know what to look for when you see someone's workout look for proper form
Make sure the exercise selection makes sense
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