Rabbi Mike Israetel (犹太人) @[email protected]

How did bodybuilding get away with blackface on this scale without getting canceled?

@shortstories This was a good watch!

@shortstories He doesn't talk about those things much directly. He has mentioned his Jewish identity before in a self-deprecating way.

He also had this roid rage episode on video where he said he's superior to everyone else and can do whatever they can do better, the sort of thing that may have "goyim" silently peppered throughout, but as far as I know, he hasn't repeated that.

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@shortstories I'm not sure, but his content did seem to want to downplay it. He was supposed to be a stealthy Zionist influencer with a very unstealthy name, a ninja who wears orange, if you will.

He has since become a more obvious Zionist agent, for example interviewing with Dave Rubin to downplay the harm done by glyphosate, and now making this video which is subtle military propaganda.

"Watch this AI scam ad, saar, so I can earn 0.00000001 rupee."

@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.

@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.

@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 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 Hey that's the guy I'm making fun of!