Do You Find This Fitness Rant Video Offensive ?

myheartsabattleground
myheartsabattleground Posts: 2,040 Member
edited November 21 in Health and Weight Loss
Found THIS on Facebook.
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  • usmcmp
    usmcmp Posts: 21,219 Member
    Found THIS on Facebook.

    I'm not sure many people are going to randomly click on links.
  • myheartsabattleground
    myheartsabattleground Posts: 2,040 Member
    The only way other than that is to embed, and you can't do that I don't think.
  • BasicGreatGuy
    BasicGreatGuy Posts: 857 Member
    I see no reason to get offended by some mealy mouth stranger, who appears to be stuck on himself and looking for attention.

    If you get offended over something like that, you are giving power over your life to a complete stranger. Not logical and not productive.
  • kgeyser
    kgeyser Posts: 22,505 Member
    usmcmp wrote: »
    Found THIS on Facebook.

    I'm not sure many people are going to randomly click on links.

    I watched about 2 minutes of it, the language is not MFP appropriate so embedding it here would be bad. It's a shirtless guy ranting and cursing a lot about how he finds fat people disgusting and lazy. I imagine it's supposed to be motivational, but as I said, I only got through about 2 minutes. Supposedly he's a former drill sergeant turned fitness instructor or something, and that's his justification for the language, but I found it off-putting and not worth my time. I'm used to the colorful language of the military, but this really isn't someone whose opinions I'm interested in hearing.
  • kiela64
    kiela64 Posts: 1,447 Member
    Haha, I randomly clicked on it. I found it mildly offensive from the tone of voice and the swearing, but not the content. By the end I understood his frustration & why he's so angry. It's a big problem, and I definitely understand his argument. I take the blame of my weight gain wholeheartedly, that I've mismanaged my life. I object to the word "lazy" for myself, but it is something that I fear about myself and may be true. I see myself as more incompetent and confused.

    I think that he should probably also be aware that not every fat person eats fast food. Some eat healthy foods but in the wrong portions and wrong proportions. For example, cheese isn't the devil, but having a huge amount of it every day is going to cause weight gain if you're not exercising (aka my life).

    But the cycle of fat-parent-bad-habits-fat-kid is a big problem, and I agree that I don't know what else is going to fix it. Personally, I feel like as a fat kid I got coddled by adults. I don't know how well I would have responded to an adult telling me I needed to lose weight, and eat more vegetables. I don't know the right answer because sometimes kids rebel and feel alone when that happens. But because I had a fat parent, I thought it wasn't a big deal. I didn't really learn how to exercise regularly, I feel. We rarely ate fast food, but the habits were still bad even though everyone was trying.

    And even now I'm astonished at how my doctor tiptoed around the fact I was obese. I needed a wake up call much earlier than I did, from randomly googling BMI.

    In short, I'm offended by being called lazy though it may be true, I don't like getting yelled at, so that's uncomfortable and stressful to listen to. But I think his points are valid. Except the one about overweight people being disgusting - that's not true. The overweight BMI category, in my opinion, houses some very nice looking people. Obesity, we're probably not stunners. But I still object to using the word "disgusting". It's just mean and it doesn't help, and more often than not it isn't true. What comes across most is his frustration and confusion at this issue, and I sympathize. I find it scary myself.
  • Qskim
    Qskim Posts: 1,145 Member
    Ha I'm random lol

    Strong opinion of a young buck - may he age gracefully, with greater wisdom in a conducive environment and continue excellent health :)
  • kk_inprogress
    kk_inprogress Posts: 3,077 Member
    I watched it while eating a Snickers ice cream bar. I think he needs one too.
  • usmcmp
    usmcmp Posts: 21,219 Member
    I went and looked at his page, he's a real peach. Thinks he is starting a fitness revolution and compares himself to Ghandi and Martin Luther King Jr. 0/10 would not follow him or watch another video.
  • BWBTrish
    BWBTrish Posts: 2,817 Member
    The funny thing is...He can be thousand times right but because of his language i didn't even finish watching and wont take him serious ever.

    With me a lot of people of my generation i think.

    Shame
  • kyrannosaurus
    kyrannosaurus Posts: 350 Member
    I agree with what he says, particularly about the influence parents have on their children. People have so many excuses. Although somewhat aggressive in his approach he wasn't entirely unreasonable. Anyone can make small changes.
  • senecarr
    senecarr Posts: 5,377 Member
    Watched about 2 minutes. He sounds like trying to shame people. Fairly proven shaming doesn't work to stop behaviors, it just works to cause hiding behaviors.
    I'm not particularly offended, I just fail to see the point. If he actually both understood overall health and truly cared about making people healthy, he wouldn't be going off on people angrily on Facebook. I'd honestly say, what he really wants is to judge people, be better than them, and mask it behind a false pretense of helping people.
  • PaulaWallaDingDong
    PaulaWallaDingDong Posts: 4,645 Member
    mrsbaldee wrote: »
    Ha I'm random lol

    Strong opinion of a young buck - may he age gracefully, with greater wisdom in a conducive environment and continue excellent health :)

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  • IsaackGMOON
    IsaackGMOON Posts: 3,358 Member
    Lol I'm wondering if this guy hits the overweight spectrum of the BMI scale when hes bulking.

    That'd be pretty awkward.

    Right?
  • opalle
    opalle Posts: 234 Member
    Nope.
    Not offendend at all.
  • kiela64
    kiela64 Posts: 1,447 Member
    edited July 2015
    Lol I'm wondering if this guy hits the overweight spectrum of the BMI scale when hes bulking.

    That'd be pretty awkward.

    Right?

    that would be fantastic! haha omg
  • meddaugh48
    meddaugh48 Posts: 41 Member
    This was great!! No sugar coating, just being direct and to the point. If I were to hire a trainer, he's exactly the kind I would want.
  • WakkoW
    WakkoW Posts: 567 Member
    No. His points are good. Delivery could use some work.

    I think this type of thing really is more or less frustration against the HAES fat is beautiful/honor my curves stuff from the fat acceptance crowd.
  • Katzedernacht
    Katzedernacht Posts: 266 Member
    edited July 2015
    No, he is harsh for sure but he has his opinion,and well, being too bland may not be good either. then again bashing and being like this may not be good either.

    but the whole fat embrace movement or whatever does get on my nerves,people aren't less for being fat,but being like "yay i'm 300 lbs and it's so ok!" no it's not
  • Xanifur
    Xanifur Posts: 44 Member
    I agree with him.
  • natboosh69
    natboosh69 Posts: 277 Member
    edited July 2015
    Nope not offended but the comments make me laugh. Loads of people saying 'Actually I can't lose weight due to x excuse and x excuse'. Snort.
  • Sued0nim
    Sued0nim Posts: 17,456 Member
    I clicked on it

    I decided I didn't like his face in the initial screenshot so I didn't watch it

    What? From reading this thread I decided his message was about valuing people on their physical appearance alone isn't it?

    :bigsmile:

    Oh and
    kkenseth wrote: »
    I watched it while eating a Snickers ice cream bar. I think he needs one too.

    Everybody needs one of those (179 calories...I know that off by heart)
  • Snesopp
    Snesopp Posts: 2 Member
    Lol I'm wondering if this guy hits the overweight spectrum of the BMI scale when hes bulking.

    That'd be pretty awkward.

    Right?

    That would be around 0% awkward. BMI? Really?

    Anyone offended by this is too easily offended.
  • IsaackGMOON
    IsaackGMOON Posts: 3,358 Member
    Snesopp wrote: »
    Lol I'm wondering if this guy hits the overweight spectrum of the BMI scale when hes bulking.

    That'd be pretty awkward.

    Right?

    That would be around 0% awkward. BMI? Really?

    Anyone offended by this is too easily offended.

    Lol are you assuming that I solely rely on BMI?

  • jemhh
    jemhh Posts: 14,261 Member
    Not offended but also don't really care about what he has to say. I only listened to about 30 seconds so his overall message might have been one that I agree with (or not, who knows since I didn't listen to it all) but his delivery style bugged me so I turned it off.
  • jensquish1
    jensquish1 Posts: 499 Member
    I agree with what he had to say... The language was a little over the top haha and I was distracted by his tattoos... Lmao
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  • betuel75
    betuel75 Posts: 776 Member
    not offended, totally agree. I he did mention that he went out and ate out at a restaurant but i think what he means by "cut your sugar" and "stay away from fast food" is all the time. Some people just always grab a big mac and constantly eat snacks high in sugar which is high in calories. Most people dont understand that sugar means calories and you can cut calories any way even without cutting sugar.
  • californiagirl2012
    californiagirl2012 Posts: 2,625 Member
    jemhh wrote: »
    Not offended but also don't really care about what he has to say. I only listened to about 30 seconds so his overall message might have been one that I agree with (or not, who knows since I didn't listen to it all) but his delivery style bugged me so I turned it off.

    I'm in this camp ^^^^^ Exactly what I did.

  • yopeeps025
    yopeeps025 Posts: 8,680 Member
    He does make some points that make sense.
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