Is “built different” a thing? | One Good Question

0:07 Ladies and gentlemen, Welcome to One Good Question, your Friday episode of fifty percent Facts, where we take questions from you all. If you want to get involved, go to Good Company discord dot com. It's a group chat. Everyone's just hanging out like minded individuals. You get early access to all our clothing, so if you can't cop your size and things sell out, your best chances getting into Discord. You also get exclusives, discounts, and you can get involved with the podcast. So the question is from Benny Age, how hard is it to see the fitness industry now compared to when you, bart Alan and Omar were creating vid smashing weights. I feel like you if I were you watch the videos I see today of everyone being quote unquote built different and all the various quote unquote i'm better than you captions, it would be hard to stay quiet. Meanwhile, all of you crust much heavier weights and are super humble about it, sharing success and lessons. I actually don't think that that is a new thing, like like a tough guy mentality, yeah, or whatever you have built different or I'm better than you.

1:18 I don't necessarily think that that's new to the fitness industry. I just think there were less people in general making content about fitness when we all started, So then now maybe the percentage is higher of people that talk that way. But maybe you know, because like there was still like, yeah, tough guy powerlifters, tough guy bodybuilders, right. And I don't know if it necessarily has anything to do with how much weight you lift or what you look like or any of it. There's just always people that I think, I guess they'll play devil's advocate and be on those people's side. In one sense, I think some people don't know how to motivate or communicate, and so that's the only way they know how. I think it's a goggins Yeah, particularly the the motivate side, and and they don't have UM. It just tells me they don't have a whole lot to bring to the table period.

2:15 So hype is what they you know, what they're bringing to the table. Shots Yeah, dark ass filter, crazy music. I think also again because I'm not a fan of people like that and it's not who I follow or watch UM, But I don't think it's all on their fault. I think that if it didn't work and it didn't reach people, it wouldn't be a thing, right, So obviously you can blame Instagram, you can blame trends, but you got to blame the consumer because someone's watching that and liking that video, which then gives them the signal Okay, I need to do more of that. Yeah, And so they go and do more of that. Um. All the podcast clips, you know, they throw epic music behind it and people talk about working hard or whatever. That's super popular on TikTok and Instagram. And again, I don't think you can blame the person on the podcast talking about it because it's just out of context clip. But if the consumer wasn't loving that, it wouldn't be a rinse and repeat and it is. So I don't necessarily blame people or roll my eyes or any of it. I don't really care because I've never like the difference is and I've said this many times, it is like what I don't like about that general idea is that people you can take what you do seriously and you without taking yourself too seriously. And some of those people probably do take themselves too seriously or even like lifting weights, like we're just fucking lifting weights. It doesn't make you I've hung out with warriors, like real warriors. Yeah, you

3:46 know, like that's different. We're just lifting weights. So that does like obviously rub me wrong. But yeah, I don't know, I don't know. Yeah, sure, I'd love everyone to have fun and chill out a little bit. Yeah, it's just never gonna happen that way because basketball is the same way, baseball the same way. There's different characters everywhere, there's different mentalities in every sport, and social media obviously is just going to magnify whatever gets likes, and so people are liking that ship. Well, there's a certain segment of our population right now who believes that the only way to be manly or whatever is to be an asshole. Yea, And some of this is like very very borderline asshole kind of kind of stuff, very absolutist.

4:30 If you do if you do this, then you're this. If you don't do this, then you're this whatever. Yeah, which again is magnified or proven has a recipe on the Internet of working. So like, in one sense, you can't blame them. I don't agree with it, But but do all these guys have shitty dads? Is that what it is? Yeah? Don't because I feel like that's that's, you know, to a certain extent the case. Yeah, it definitely might be. I think it's very weak to look for a to look to a man that you do not know on the internet to figure out how you're gonna act as a man. Yeah, I mean that's how you become foot clan and into turtles. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, And I do think there's something true to that, or like any cult you find, like, yes, people missing a piece and then finding a piece in some community. Yeah. I mean, even powerlifting some extent is like that. Right. It was the sports for like misfits, right, and that's why it's like not as popular of a sport because it, yeah, it takes a little bit of fucked upness to get there. Um, I don't know. Yeah, I don't know. It's not my cup of tea. I don't think overall, I don't think it's like detrimental. I mean that the uber masculine shit potentially could be for sure on the internet with some messages people say but like that I'm built different than you, motivational stuff. Yeah, you know, I don't think it's like ruining fitness, even though I don't like it. I don't care. No, it's not ruining fitness anymore than it's ruining anything else I guess. Yeah, yeah, it's not specific to ruining fitness. Yeah, and it doesn't like I mean, it sends it's kind of like that grindset shit, Like it sends probably the wrong message, like you have to wake up at three

6:01 am, right, and you have to eat oatmeal with nothing in it, and you have to run twenty miles and you have to bleed while you work out to get fit or be rich. I mean that's some of us just straight up false. Um. But yeah, overall, I don't think it's negative. But yeah, like here's an example. Um, it's the you know, the getting up at four o'clock in the morning thing, Like, literally, there is a portion of our population that is genetically set up to not be most efficient at four a fucking o'clock in the morning. Yeah, sure, four of us. Yeah, I mean they're there are literally there's some people are are night owls and some people are early birds, and like there's variation that obviously obviously, But if you've ever if you've ever been the opposite of that, and you try to work a job that caused you to be in a schedule that was not in co not not conforming with the way You're body just wants to be in its circadian rhythms. Then yeah. And so like, if the idea is that you got to be up at four o'clock in the morning to be successful, what if you can't be as successful at four o'clock in the morning as you could be at four o'clock in the afternoon. There's just no way you can argue like efficiency, So if I'm more efficient in three hours, what do I have to work twenty Yeah, And it's just I've always thought that way. But again, if it motivates some people, if they do stuff that, but they do positive things that they wouldn't do otherwise, that's fine. If they act like assholes because not

7:35 everybody is doing what they're doing, then that's that's detrimental. But that's not just fitness. Yeah, that's all kind of this weird sacrifice martyrdom type shit. Take a cold plunge because it's tough, Like, yeah, man, fucking bashing my head through glass would be tough too. Yeah, there's a lot of hard walking barefoot a mile a little bit like why what is it? What's it? Like actually lead to and I do think you should challenge yourself. You think there's things you can learn about yourself when there's kind of the the quit now voice screaming in your head. Worked out with Tim Kennedy recently in Texas, and that's what he kind of said. He's like, yeah, I like these workouts. And then this is a little warrior. You know, this guy's saving lives in Afghanistan, saving lives in Sudan. He's putting his own life at risk monthly for others. And how he speaks about is really cool because he is, you know, he is very patriotic, but he also just talks about lives like, no, I'm there to help people. Yeah, I'm there to actually just help people. And so for him, one, he has to be in that kind of shape because he's special ops too. And he's like, yeah, like, I like these workouts when you're so deep the loudest voice is telling you to quit, you know, and then you can kind of see what you do or can't do. And I was like, yeah, like, I do think there's some merit to that. In the first world luxury shit we live in, you know, to kind of push yourself to essentially not be soft as soft as yeah yeah, or just know that you can win that voice battle in your head. Yeah, we're all going to go through. And then if you do that enough, maybe consciously you can decide to also do that in tough real lifetimes. But there's a lot of fucking physical specimens that can do

9:09 that and can't do it in real life. Right, Like, that argument doesn't always it seems not causation to me. And that's my argument against all these things that people do, like run a marathon to be tough or blah blah blah blah blah blah blah, is like, if you can't transfer it or if it doesn't auto transfer to life, choosing to do difficult things is much different than how you handle difficult things that are thrown at you. And that's what people don't necessarily see when they see this four am. Yeah, waking up at four am is hard, and yeah, running and the rain is hard. I've never said any of that. But if it doesn't transfer, if you're still bad at taxes and beating your wife and a dickhead, none of that really matters. That you're in these uncomfortable spots for growth or whatever. You think a word you want to say, yeah, and then um, there's just a there's a disconnect for some people. And I'm just thinking about kind of the saddest scenario for power lifters and somebody who's like super gung ho and pushing themselves really hard or whatever in the gym, and then when they get into competition, they got nothing. They're you know that they they don't actually have the mental toughness that they're trying to display when they're training.

10:28 Yeah, and I don't necessarily know how you fix that. You know, it's sport. Exposure is the easiest, right, you just eat more often. But even then some people never have it. Yeah, people like compete all the time, bomb out or fuck up. Um, and then those are one of the ones you can control. You can sign up for a meat right recorder if you want it. But real life sometimes yeah, you don't. You don't get to a practice, no practice, it's only game no for sure. I don't really know the answer, but I don't think four AM's it. I don't hate the industry worth I mean, we had another talk with russwol Russell or he about the industry and where it's at and It's funny because he, you know, talks so much about watching like me and Bark growing up and his early days of powerlifting. Then now he's obviously the guy and he hates the new generation of stuff, and I get it, and I think it comes down to the same thing where we all liked fitness and we decided to turn on the camera and share what we were doing. Where everyone just wants to be famous, so they choose fitness because they think that's a route to it, um, and that is a different vibe when you start to film yourself in the gym, and so I think that's part of this in a way, you know, where this guy talks about them not being good athletes are strong or humble, but it is what it is. Can't really control other motherfuckers, so I don't try. No fair point, um, Ladies and gentlemen. New members episodes every Wednesday and Friday. Three sp dotco for all your clothing kneeds. We've got a couple of socks still uh and some miss llaneous sizes and random tease. There may

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