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Old 06-18-2023, 09:30 AM
 
Location: NMB, SC
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Then we need should have 50-year old fitness gurus to cater to their audience.
Putting on a pair of lululemons and videotaping your exercise routine for YouTube does NOT make you an expert.
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Old 06-18-2023, 12:45 PM
 
Location: Canada
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Why is every 20 something a fitness "expert" now?

LOL. Every 20-something alive has theirself convinced that they're an expert on something.

The 20-somethings aren't your problem, the problem is FB and the ignorant hype the 20-somethings are influenced by and are selling to other ignorant brainwashed 20-somethings. You don't need it ..... so do what you said already and cancel your FB account. That will eliminate 2 problems for you.

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Old 06-18-2023, 05:35 PM
 
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Yea, its easy to be fit at 20, just try it in your eighth decade like me...its not pretty.

Joan Rivers had some observations about what happens to a body when getting old. https://www.google.com/search?client...id:Qj1PkiDliG0

Many of these 20 somethings will do what my late aunt did and she was a model in the late 1940's and early '50's; she ended up covering up all her bathroom mirrors so all she could see what her face.
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Old 06-19-2023, 11:26 AM
 
Location: Way up high
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I'm 48 and in better shape than most 20 year olds so.....

I've always been in shape but this is probably my best and will continue to do so
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Old 06-19-2023, 11:32 AM
 
Location: Pittsburgh
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The bottom line to the OP's question is that anyone can create a YouTube channel and TikTok and IG accounts. You get a bunch of gym rats who love fitness and think they're experts and they can put out whatever they want. Some people are really good, and want to reach a wide audience with thoughtful information, and others parrot a bunch of crappy (or even dangerous) advice and shill for weird supplements. The best you can do is block them, but that doesn't always work.
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Old 06-19-2023, 12:35 PM
 
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I'm 48 and in better shape than most 20 year olds so.....

I've always been in shape but this is probably my best and will continue to do so
40 here and same thing! Still weighing the same I did from back in my 20s too, but now with muscle from the gym. Win, win!
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Old 06-19-2023, 03:42 PM
 
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I like fitness gurus.

I subscribe to a lot of their programs.

Costs a pretty penny, but worth it 1000%.
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Old 06-19-2023, 05:55 PM
 
Location: Western North Carolina
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Because it doesn't take a lot of effort to be fit in your 20's?

I remember myself in my twenties. Ate mostly junk food, smoked cigarettes, no exercise, very little sleep between working in the daytime and partying into the wee hours most nights.....

My body slim, trim, taut, not a bit of fat, about 120 lbs., looked great and felt great every day.

Life gives you these gifts when you are young - later on it starts taking them away.
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Old 06-20-2023, 11:03 AM
 
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My gym is full of fake/pretend/wannabe trainers who seem to froth at the mouth at ANY chance to tell someone about their latest/greatest exercise (that they likely simply copied from someone online). One particular gentleman who I've ranted about many times in the "Most Annoying" thread (Mr. Heavy Cologne D-bag) seems to wander around aimlessly trying to find someone to "train". Always these really odd exercises like laying on the ground and doing chest flies or these weird balancing exercises that are surely going to get someone injured.

Maybe this is the same phenomenon of people who like to pretend to be cops. It's that authoritarian complex they are so desperately seeking possibly. Who knows, I just know these people should NOT be training anyone.
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Old 06-20-2023, 11:28 AM
 
Location: Sunnybrook Farm
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Most of the 20 somethings I see range from overweight to obese. Even those who aren't visibly fat all have the new mandatory double chin. (I don't get it. When I was that age no one I knew except the visibly overweight had double chins. Is it something about all the hormones in the meat?)
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