Mike Israetel ( spelling ? ) fails military fitness test on his own youtube channel
@shortstories So the west right now is under a mass delusion that weight lifting is everything there is to fitness.
Weight lifting comes from the pursuit of hypertrophy, not strength, not endurance. Contrary to common belief, hypertrophy and strength only somewhat overlap. You can build strength with minimal hypertrophy (farmer strength), and you can build size with minimal strength (every bodybuilder).
@shortstories Lately, isometrics for tendon strength have been catching on. Which is great, because tendons not only gain strength more slowly than muscle (even more so when using anabolics), but weight lifting does a questionable job of training tendons. Tendons benefit from load while a muscle is fully extended, which is something that weightlifting does only momentarily if at all. It's something like stretching, but the muscle is contracted.
@shortstories Incidentally, this is also becoming the standard advice for gaining flexibility: to contract and slightly resist the stretch with your muscles. This is because the new theory of flexibility is not that your tissues can't stretch, but that your brain won't let you stretch into a range of motion where your body isn't strong enough to protect itself. Hence, flexibility is actually strength at the extremes of your range of motion.
@RabbiMikeIsraetel
Passive static flexibility is not necessarily strength at the extreme end of the range of motion. In some cases passive flexibility is simply the ability to turn off muscles resisting a external force causing the joints to move. However if one fails to turn off a muscle opposing the stretch one may achieve the same range of motion by turning on a different muscle to oppose that muscle
Active static flexibility is related to strength at the extreme end of range of motion
@shortstories I say all that in order to say that roidlings like Mr Mike Israetel and bodybuilders in general are a mockery of the human body. They have size without strength, without endurance, without flexibility, without cardio. We need a radical realignment in what we think fitness is. Ironically, Mr Mike is helping to do this by showing how useless that hypertrophy is by flunking the cardio part of the test.