#FFITNESSTOK | Tiktok fitness trends that need to die asap
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Hello guys, we are now in the same room in Austin, Texas, no longer doing Zoom recordings. Yes, we are. We don't have our podcast set up quite yet. You know, we're easing into this move-in. Not everything's going to be, you know, the click of our fingers, but we're at least in the same room. Yes, I've been here for almost a week, like six days now. Now we actually get to record in the same room, which is going to be so much better. We don't have any of that, like,

of like us talking. It was still a little bit difficult setting this up. No internet. Yeah, it was very difficult. We still are not smooth with it. If you know anything about podcasting and microphones and you live in Texas and you live in Austin, find us on Instagram. Maybe you can help us set it up. Seriously. I feel like once we get our table though, like we're going to have like our setup just like

stay there and I'm never gonna touch the microphone never gonna touch the headset yeah I'll be like stay there stay the same so that I don't mess you up yeah we need to write on a paper exactly what like when you go into garage band exactly what you need to press yeah to have it work yeah we definitely need to do that like a step-by-step we can frame it on the wall but um we're sharing one mic today because that's where we ended up um but yeah our life has been

Pretty insane now that we moved. We spent the week with our parents, which was fun. Nice family time. Yeah, it's definitely hard, though, like, balancing work while also having family in town during the week. Because obviously, like, we work, like, Monday to Friday, like...

client check-ins, content, all that stuff, trying to balance it all and be with our family. I feel like the last week has been so long. I am so tired. I cannot wait for this weekend because we get to go out. I know. And get to actually celebrate that we're together now. Moved in. My 100K. Just get drunk. I just want to get drunk so bad. But it's been... Yeah, I agree. It's just been crazy because...

Like, having a job that no one's forcing you to be in a certain place, and you have so many things you need to be doing. Like, I did so much car shopping, so much home shopping, but I still had to be on top of my posting grind and, like, client grind. So we've been having our productive mornings, but then pretty much my afternoon is filled with moving. And now doing this, because now we had two podcasts. Actually, it's Thursday night, if you're wondering when we're filming this. This is literally going to be up in, like, two days.

hours. Yeah, it's going to be up in a few hours. But you guys get to know fresh what's going on in our mind. This is exactly how we're feeling right before it goes up. But yeah, I'm excited to go out too and just have fun. I've been... Car shopping just sucks so bad and I'm just so stressed because it's so much change. But I finally decided on a car. If you want to know what it is, you've got to watch my YouTube video on Monday because I won't say it here. Secrets! It's in the YouTube video.

I don't know. No, I don't think the car is actually in the YouTube video, but I'll tell you in the YouTube video. I'm very excited that that's figured out because that's one thing done. I have no room. I'm on an air mattress. Like, nothing's set up yet because I need my bed before I can, like, hang things on the wall because I don't really know where my bed is going to go. Yeah. Like, I'm unsure. I finally, like, started putting things on my walls because I'm like, there was no point moving in here and having wall decor. Yeah. Yeah.

So I need to do that when my bed comes. But now that I have my car figured out and live here, it's like, okay, we're set. Should we mention, like, what we want to be doing, too, with our art? Because we said it on the Instagram story. Guys, I already put it on the Instagram story because we were, like, we were out shopping. I was with my family shopping. She was with her family shopping. But I saw, like, this, what do you call it? Like a...

It was a canvas, but it was like... A canvas of like a drawing. Of somebody. But anyway, we just want you guys to come up with, you know, recreate...

pictures of us from instagram send them into our dms and we are going to probably be printing a bunch of them to be putting over near the um podcast section we have probably put them on canvases like frames whatever it is but of course make sure you guys sign it in like the bottom corners if you guys want to be featured or anything like that um if you guys want to personally um

print it out yourself and create it yourself maybe you want to paint it and send it to us um we will probably be putting like a p.o box up in the near future for you guys to be sending things but that's just give you kind of an idea of like what we're probably gonna be looking for in the next few weeks yeah a few of you already sent it over dm which is so sweet so we know that could just be such a cool thing to like have you guys as part of our

Our workspace, because some of you are just so talented, whether, like she said, it's like digital or painted or however you make it. They do it within seconds. Yeah. Our DMs had already like three or four of you send them. I was like, how the heck did you guys do this so quickly? It's nuts. But the podcast setup is going to be so nice, just a nice little work setup. We grind when we're here, guys. The workouts that we've been doing these past few days are just amazing.

They just go so hard. I've never felt so nauseous in my life this morning. Yeah, we did quads today, and it was like both of us felt like we could vomit. It was so bad. It's just we get too into it. We get way too into it. We can legitimately go to the gym at any hour of the day that we wanted to just because we can rearrange our own schedules, but we literally chose to go to the gym at like 8.

8 30 this yeah that's my prime time I'm gonna probably stick with that honestly no it's awesome I love it but I'm just like we went through that workout so quickly that it was it was 9 30 and I was like holy crap we've done so much guys I had 8k steps I was almost to 10k like almost I had a few stand hours left all of my rings were basically closed except for the stand one it was nine like I was

I couldn't even finish my pre-workout too. Like I did like the Sunny D pre-workout and I did like, I did a quarter or I'm sorry, like three-fourths of a scoop. And I was like shaking. Like I felt so nauseous. Like I cannot finish this. Like it's so early in the morning. It was so nice. We went for a walk at like 645, came back, worked gym. We just grind. It's such the environment that I'm like,

I'm just ready to work in. Yeah. So I'm ready to work in. Yeah. Meanwhile, some of these girls are listening to this. They're like, hey, stop fucking complaining. Like we go to the gym at like five in the morning before work. I understand that too. I'm, I'm like kind of a morning person. Not really. But like shout out to you guys that if you guys can get to the gym at like five, six in the morning, I appreciate you. Like I love that you can put in that work. Yeah. I want to know a funny story.

I was, I had work at like seven. So I was like, I'm going to go to the gym at five. Like I had this whole thing. I slept on the couch because I, I can wake up better if I'm not like comfy in my bed. So I slept on the couch and I could wake up at five.

drank my pre-workout in the car to realize my gym doesn't open till seven oh my god so i already drank my pre-workout yeah i didn't realize that it didn't open early i had already drank my pre-workout it's like 5 a.m and i was like well shit what do i do now so i got a free day trial at the planet fitness right by my house because it was still open and i was like i

I was like, I need to do something. I thought you were about to say you went on a run and I'm like, that's pure psychotic. No, I got a day pass at another, at literally Planet Fitness because I needed to do something. I was literally like tweaking off, we got out of the car and I was like, oh my God, what do I do? Yeah, no.

Luckily, that's never happened to me, and I hope it never happens to me. It was rough. We've been avoiding, or at least I haven't been avoiding. I've been acting like you have to, but I don't think you have your gym membership for lift yet, do you? No, I don't. No, yeah. I was going to say, we've been avoiding lift, though, because it's so hot here. And if I'm going to work out at lift, it needs to be at 8 to 10 a.m. that time frame, because anything after that, I feel like I'm going to pass out. So we've been just going to Gold's.

Yeah, and it's kind of closer, and we've been doing a lot with our parents, like we said, so it's just easy. But Lyft is super fun. I really want to go. Maybe we should go tomorrow. We should go tomorrow, but we've got to go mad early. Same time we've been going. Seriously, though, we haven't gone early. We're just using this podcast to make plans. We're like, hey, when do you want to go to the gym tomorrow? People are going to be listening to this, and they're like, oh, they're on their way to the goal around Lyft. We're going to post in gold, and people are going to be like,

What happened? Oh, yeah. You didn't follow. Okay, now we really have to follow through with this plan. Now we have to go.

But yeah, I'm really excited to go to Lyft. That should be fun and just have a good weekend. I'm like, oh, Sam got her TikTok back and went through that whole thing. So guys, she's like not getting views. So go like hype up her TikTok. That was such a big thing. Did we ever, oh, that did get talked about on the podcast because it was that day. Yeah, it was. That was the last episode. I was like, I don't know if I can emotionally be on here right now. So if you listened to that episode and haven't really caught up since, that is the update. The TikTok account is back.

and everything is moving smoothly, because that's, like, one of the last things we shared on here. I'm severely shadowbanned right now. Like, after being blocked, what they do to creators is they'll shadowban you for some time. So, guys, go hype up my, you know, TikTok. Comment, say you came from the podcast, or just randomly spam with random comments that will make me laugh. But, yeah, help a girl out. Yeah, same thing on my Instagram. My Instagram has been so shadowbanned. I have no idea why...

I thought I got out of it because one post did good. And it's been like ever since I hit 100K, it's been a slow and steady journey on Instagram. So, you know, just keep engaging with our social media because it helps us tremendously. Like so much. And without your guys' engagement, we couldn't keep doing it. So to keep us out there and on the For You page and on the Explore page, if you see our stuff and you like it, like it, comment, save it.

It helps a lot. Send it to friends, you know. Yeah, repost it on your story, you know. No, but for real though, we love you guys. We obviously would not be in this position if it wasn't for you, so. Yeah, for real, like, we're literally living together because...

Because of you listening. You specifically. You specifically. Speaking of you guys, we've met so many of you guys. I know. So many. What, like three people? I don't know. But it's been so fun. And we've said it a million times, but reiterating it, if you see us, say hello. And to the girls we met, if you're listening to this, the girl from Gold's. You said you listened to the podcast. Hey. You were so sweet. I can't remember the girl from the Oasis. I said she...

Did she listen to the podcast? I don't know. I don't know. She probably did. She was so cute. Yes. Also the sweetest one. Yes. You were so sweet. We loved meeting you guys. And that's pretty much been our week. Just a lot of moving, a lot of hanging out with parents, a lot of eating at restaurants. I've ate out a lot this week. Sometimes I'm like, I like to eat out. Like, don't get me wrong. I love to eat out. You guys see me eat out all the time. But if I'm doing it for lunch and dinner...

Like consecutively, a few days in a row, I'm like, oh my God, I feel like garbage. So I'm like happy that I'm just like now and like maybe like my one day a week, two day a week going out and just really cooking my food. Yeah, my Trader Joe's going grocery shopping made me so happy. Yeah.

being able to cook dinner and cook lunch. I was like, this feels so good. And we're gonna meal prep like crazy. I know. I know. Can't wait. We're still stocking up the kitchen with everything we need. Yeah. You guys will see all the updates on Instagram. We should post more apartment updates on like... The podcast. Podcast. Yeah. We definitely should. Yeah. Once we get our table... We've been slacking though. Yeah. Can you balance it all? We...

We will, I guess like when we're setting up our podcast area, show you guys. And that'll be like podcast content. You can also DM us what you want to see on the page as far as stories and stuff. Maybe something different than we post on our things. Let us know about stories. Today, I think we've been talking for a little bit. Yeah, we have. We want to talk about, I don't want to say controversial. I guess it could be controversial to some people. I think the word unnecessary is good. Unnecessary. So...

Really just stupid, bad gym content on TikTok specifically. Yeah, TikTok gets bad. I mean, and Instagram. It's everywhere, but I feel like all of this you can find really on TikTok. Yes. It is like high on TikTok. It's obviously on everything, YouTube, probably podcast, probably Instagram, you name it. You can find it anywhere if you look up workouts, but TikTok...

is flooded with it. Yeah. Like, crazy. And it's just been on our mind and something we talk about when we're alone. So, we thought we'd talk about it and record it. Yeah, why not? And, like, obviously, like...

We're not going to throw shade to names, but we're just going to talk about specific subjects and topics and things that we just see that may be clickbait to you guys. And we just don't like that. So we kind of want to clear the air on that and help you guys out because we've been in these situations where we don't really know and have a lot of basis on fitness and nutrition. So we see these things and we're like, okay, I'm going to do it. And then we fall for it and nothing happens. So to kind of just start off, obviously my number one being...

Not needing to do abs before bed, my friends. Okay? Yeah. So I guess posting that you need to do abs before bed. Yes. Like, you'll see someone's content be like, oh my goodness, like, try this ab circuit before bed or do this every night before you go to bed and, like, you're going to get abs, like, all these things. I'm like, there is no specific time. Like, we're just going to kind of clear the air on, like, certain subjects that you'll see. But...

You guys do not need to be doing abs before bed or any given time of the day. Time of day does not matter. You guys know if you follow our content, you should know that the only way you can get abs is from being in a calorie deficit, lowering the body fat percentage. And if you engage your core during your compound lifts, that is going to be a core workout in itself. You won't necessarily need to be doing abs.

you know, ab workouts every single day. Abs are a, I could go on for hours about this. I'm so sorry. But like, and abs are a muscle group too. You don't need to be training abs specifically every single day. So doing it before bed every single day is not going to get you anywhere. You need to be resting it. So that's my take on that subject. Yeah. Along with abs is all of them that are pretty much like these will have like millions of likes.

saying that the ab workout is for your love handles, is for your lower belly, is for your... Like, that is all such garbage, especially lower and upper abs when, like, it's all just abs. Like, there is no, like...

Work out to isolate your lower abs. That gets us into legit the topic of clickbait workouts. Because it's insanity to me. Like, the amount of people that do it. And I'm like... It's funny because people are so sensitive nowadays. And I'll call them out. Or, like, I'll stitch the video. Do it the video. And people are like... You get what she means, though. She puts a disclaimer. I'm like, disclaimers don't mean shit. Because if you're swiping real quick... Are you looking at the caption? Or are you looking at the words in the video? You're looking at the words in the video. And if someone says...

Do this. There's this one creator. I don't even know who she is because I obviously don't follow her because her content bothers me so much. But she clickbaits everything she posts, and it's like, do this if you want to. I don't even know what they are, but I can't remember. But for example, just like, do this if you want to lose 10 pounds in like two weeks or something like that. And then it's like an ab circuit. I'm just like...

If only it were that simple. I'm like, what are you saying? It's insanity. All of them, the word that they all have in common is tone. Tone. Tone. Tone. And if there's a set weeks in the title, something something in X amount of weeks...

Red flag. Yes. Red flag. Red flag. Get away from that creator. Get away from the video. Like, don't trust it. Like, you can follow something that's, like, a plan for a certain amount of weeks, but if they're guaranteeing a drastic appearance change in weeks, bye. No. Swipe. Like, that is the biggest red flag ever. And then with the clickbait titles...

Especially when it's a girl that maybe lifts or is just genetically gifted and they act like that's what they do. Yeah. They're like, this is what I do. No, it's not. Like the, oh my goodness, Stairmaster things where it's like, oh, sideway kicks, donkey kicks. I don't even know what they are. And they're like, do this to help grow the booty. And I'm just like, no, girl, you were genetically gifted with that booty. If that's what you think you did to grow your booty...

Yeah, and also with the – I got really called out for the Stairmaster thing. And what people I don't think get is those clickbait titles. They're easy to get views. If we wanted one day to be like, you know what? I really want this video to get a million views, we can go to the gym and post some clickbait horrible content and probably get a million views. Yeah, but we would never do that to you guys. So you have to realize that that's what a lot of people are doing. It's very easy to get people to click on something that says –

get abs in two weeks or 10 minutes on the stairs to grow your butt. That's really easy to get people to click on. But when we're like, no, you're actually going to have to put in the work and like eat right and care. People are like, like, that seems like too much. Literally both of us posted transformations today, like our upper body transformations. And like, we genuinely like,

said it how it is we weren't like given any like clickbait type of shit like when we were posting on like that so just like i want you guys to know like clickbait things like don't fall for it yeah and even the things that we sell i've even said a million times like obviously you don't need this yeah but if you want it and you think it would hold you accountable yeah and you think it could really be of use to you yeah exactly like even and we say that about things that like

We are making money from. Yeah. Like we don't have like guides like that. So I think it's just important to know that those clickbait things are so nonsense. And then when people are like, why are you calling them out? It worked for them.

No, it didn't. No, it didn't. They had good genetics. No, it didn't. Or you don't realize... Or someone else in the comments will be like, it worked for me. Or like, yeah, stop giving her crap. Like, it also worked for me. And I'm like, you also had great genetics. Yeah. Or if it's not genetics, what people don't realize, let's say you start doing...

An ab circuit that said lose your lower belly fat in two weeks. Like, let's say that's what you followed. So you do this ab circuit and you're like, oh my God, it worked. What you might not realize is subconsciously, because now you're trying to get healthy and you're doing an ab circuit. Maybe you're eating a little better. Maybe you're trying to focus on your sleep a little more. Maybe you're trying to get extra steps.

And those things that you're doing is what did it. Yeah. That's what did it. Without knowing it, you're in a calorie deficit. Yeah. You were in a calorie deficit. And just be like, I feel like if you get into that, oh, I'm trying to get a little bit healthy, you're probably watching what you eat a little bit. Yeah. I would think like people that saw results and that's what did it. Yeah. Not the apps. Not the...

Two-week circuit ad program that you saw on YouTube and were following. Yeah, exactly. And if that's what you have to follow to have a routine to get you motivated, cool. But the person posting it needs to be responsible for the...

the misleading information. Exactly. Like, if you guys, like, oh my god, I get so, like, die culture and, like, clickbait and all this thing, like, all these things, like, I get so, like, not sensitive, but just angry at it because I was affected by these and I know how it feels to be feel, just be so drawn to something like this. So it's, like, now that we know these things, I have no care in the world if I have to be going at someone on social media. It's just, like,

Take one for the team, I guess. Especially when you see, like, because people struggle with weight loss or weight gain, right? It's a struggle. It is, like, a mental struggle, a physical struggle. Like, it gets to people a lot. And to be part of the problem, contributing to people's, like...

Like, the ups and downs of that. Like, to lead someone through something that's, like, this is not going to work. They're going to gain all the weight back. Like, to just lead someone through that mindlessly is so irresponsible. Yeah, I totally agree. I think it's, like, it's literally so irresponsible. And I think people need to be less sensitive to, like, literally... Like, you need to know when you're posting something that is just BS. Even if, like, you said, oh, there was a little disclaimer. Or, like, oh, I never...

actually said it, but it's like 1,000% implied. Yeah, like the emojis you use. The emojis, the starting angle. Yeah, the hashtags. You can tell what's implied even when you don't... Imply it. Even when you don't say it word for word. Yeah. Like, even if you don't say...

This workout shrunk my waist. If you start my daily ab workout and your waist is really little and you hashtag it small waist, that's implying that that's what it is. Literally. Because people see it and they get that first thing. Especially also if you're not even looking at where your comments are and everyone's talking about it, how they're going to do it and blah, blah, blah. And it's just toxic after toxic after toxic. And especially when they're young.

people it's so horrible and it gives all influencers a bad rep because then you hear people talk about fitness influencers and they think they're all like that i know they think they're all like chloe ting style like videos i was gonna say that name at the beginning when we were talking about yeah but she's like mad popular so it's like yeah i feel like when you say abs in two weeks everyone thinks chloe t yep i posted that tiktok and be like it was the audio is like

I'm like, what's the audio? I'm not the same as you. Oh, yeah. And I did the words like when fitness influencers like say this, everyone was tagging Chloe Ting. I was like, yeah. Yeah. And people say like like her videos have disclaimers, too. And like I know I mean, I'm not even like calling her out because I know that's an interesting thing. Apparently, her other videos are good. And a lot of people, you know, were sitting around during quarantine and she got them moving. So, I mean, yeah.

Like, it is what it is. I don't think it was necessarily a horrible thing, but she's definitely known for that. And I think a lot of YouTube workouts are like that. It's a big YouTube thing, too. Because those are all clickbait. Like, you have to title them something specific, so you type something specific in, like shrink waist or something, and all these freaking workouts just pop up. And like I said, guys, that'd be so easy for us to do. I'd never do that. I'd never do that. No, we won't do you guys like that.

But yeah, I guess another thing too is also wanting to talk about like when people say that fitness influencers or just anyone fitness wise on social media photoshops themselves and characterizing us as like a giant group of the. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Because that's like what I said about Chloe Ting. There's such a thing with like fitness influencers, like girls that post about fitness are just.

In it for cloud, in it for money, all genetically gifted, all photoshopped, they all got BBLs. That is so false. There's many different levels to being a fitness influencer. And, you know, you can't characterize everyone as just being a fitness... I honestly hate the words fitness influencer. I hate it. Like, I'm like, I want to say, like, I'm a personal trainer. Like, I know what the hell I'm doing. I'm giving you guys the right information. I'm trying to help you. Whereas there's these girls out there that are just...

Putting their body out there. Yeah. Or photoshopping themselves. Exactly. And I know some people do, but I've seen TikToks that kind of are like, kind of, I don't want to say people give up, but like, oh, when you stop following all fitness influencers and like get more realistic because you realize all of them are fake. Yeah. And it's like, no, there is realistic truth.

You can... We do have realistic bodies. You can look like us. They're real. They're real. They happened in real life. They look how they look. And I think what's contributed to that is the Instagram versus reality. Oh my god, I hate that. And it makes it seem like how you look in person is nothing. It's so drastic. Like your Instagram. Yeah. And that's just not...

It's not. I'd say we look how we do. Especially when people... I will get DMs all the time and be like, can you stop posting so many pose things? I'm like, what do you mean? All my workout videos, do you think I'm posing while I'm mid-squat or mid-short?

Like, I'm not posing. Like, that's just my body how it is. Like, obviously, like, cover photos, most likely, yeah, I'm posing. But, like, you guys see enough of my life where, like, I'm not posing. Like, TikToks, YouTubes, like, me actually working out. Like, you know, like, we're not always posed. Because to me, when I see someone who posts so many, like, Instagram versus reality, I'm like, I try to post...

Yeah. Obviously, there's parts you don't see. Obviously, there's times where I'm looking a little rough, like, whatever, and I'm not ready for a camera. But all in all, if you, like, followed me around day to day, my Instagram story and my post for that day would look...

Pretty much like what happened. Yeah. Like, and I just think that contributes to people being like, oh, look, like, they said themselves that they don't even look like that. Yeah. Or they said themselves that everything they were posting is, like, this is, like, a heavy one. That, like, they come out saying that they were, like, disordered. Yeah. And then it makes everyone on TikTok kind of in the, like,

Like, the dieticians that are very, like, no food rules, those kind of TikTok. That side of TikTok, very, like, every single fitness person is low-key disordered. Yeah. And they'll literally make TikToks being, like, if you count macros or work out, you're fatphobic and disordered. Yeah, or, like, the biggest joke right now, I feel like, on TikTok that I see is, like, oh, if you track your blueberries or, like, just something, like, stupid like that, like, that's disordered. I'm like...

What? I'm like, if I'm going to be having a goddamn cup and a half of blueberries on my oatmeal, I'm going to track that. It also doesn't bother us. Yeah. Like, it's not like I'm like, oh, I'm tweaking if I don't. Yeah. Like, I could easily not. But if you have the scale out. Scale is there, I'm gonna, you know? Yeah. But that's the fitness side of TikTok. And I think that just confuses people. Because it's putting this idea in everyone's head that, like, caring about what you eat or how you exercise matters.

Literally means you're obsessed with exercise and addicted and disordered. And that's just nuts to me. That's such a side of TikTok I see so often. But it is possible, though. Like, it is possible what they are saying. It's possible. It's just you can't generalize. Yeah, you cannot generalize it to everybody. But there are definitely, like, people out there that it can be and they are doing it in the wrong way. But...

It's not. You know why? Yeah. Because it's the people that come up these clickbaity ways. Yeah. Or show such, like, a drastic difference in themselves. And they, like, all happen so fast. And then they're like, like... I, like... I am actually not healthy. Yeah. Because...

They, like, used all those diet-cultury things to get where they are. Yo-yo dieting? Like, thinking lifting makes you bulky, and this ab workout is what I did, and I ate 1,200 calories. Like, yo-yo dieting, like you said. Like, that's how they get, like, crazy, crazy clout. And then it's like...

oh, wait, actually, guys, I have something to tell you. Yeah. And then I feel like then it makes people generalize. Like, oh, look, another influencer, all of them are sick. It's so crazy now that we're, like, talking about it out loud because we have never actually, like, I feel like sat down and, like, had, like, a massive conversation about this, like, how toxic the fitness industry can actually be. Like, it's actually crazy. Yeah, and I've seen people even say, like, oh, they unfollowed all the fitness influencers when they were trying to, like,

Like, they made them feel so bad about themselves. Yeah. And I'm just like, you're following the wrong people. Wrong people. You're following the wrong people. And now, again, everyone has different triggers, if you will. So, whatever. But in general, like, I'd say you're following the wrong people. Because you should follow accounts that are nothing but motivating and uplifting. Exactly. And, like, I guess educational, too. But, like, also, like, you want... Like, I don't know. Like...

What's the word I'm looking for? Like can relate. Yeah. Like relating to them is super important. Like I only pretty much follow anybody that I can like relate to. Like, like, Oh, like you could do that. Hey, yeah, I fucking do that too. Like, that's awesome. Um,

But yeah, I don't know. What else? There's so much. Yeah, we have a little list and we haven't talked about it in detail yet. We kind of got talking. Sam was like, wait, save it for the podcast. So we really didn't plan this. We're just throwing out all our ideas. Okay, I want to talk about, because that one is my biggest pet peeve, the model diet. Yes. The model diet on TikTok is so toxic and, I don't know, disgusting. Yeah.

Oh my God. Okay, so I used to be really into modeling, right? That's what I wanted to do. And I'd look at what these people eat and blah, blah, blah. And they're like barely eating. But guess what? Some of them are eating even kind of decent, but I do not have the body to be that skinny. And if I am that thin and try to be that thin, I will be starving. That's just how it is. That's just the facts. And there are girls that post this model diet by this dude and the rules for it are horrible.

Horrible. Like, some of the worst things I've ever seen. You can't eat protein after three. You can't eat protein before or after a workout because it'll make you too bulky. You can't... Oh, my God! It's, like, food combining. It is, like... It's literally food combining to, like, the extreme. It is, like, horrible. I don't even remember all the details because there were so many. And I do edit a video because I was like, this is gonna put some teenage girl in the hospital. Like, it's really no joke. I don't think people understand...

How that could seriously very much harm someone's health to tell someone that they can't eat after 3 p.m. For a young girl, it's TikTok. Same thing goes for the morning, too. Yeah, the morning. Telling someone that they need to restrict their lifestyle that much, especially at a young age and for the sole purpose of being skinny like a model...

It's so horrifying. And I got, like, attacked by a lot of people for bringing it up. Yeah. Because they were like... You wet it or stitched it? I stitched it. Because it literally had my jaw on the floor in my job.

I didn't mention anything about the girl who said it because she was quoting it from a dude. So my full attack is on the guy who has that be a thing. I don't know his name, but that's who I am. Because the girl who posted it is honestly just a, like, victim is the right word. Yeah, I know. Just, like, kind of, what's the word I'm looking for? Brainwashed. Brainwashed. Yes, brainwashed. Right? To think that, like, that's what you have to do to be pretty and successful. Yeah. Yeah.

Oh my God. Like it was more intense than like bikini prep and my responsibility. I see something and I don't, if I stitched everything I found bad on Tik TOK, I asked your page. Yeah. So I've literally only done it twice because I just thought of girls. I follow coming across that and falling down that path. Yeah. Or if I saw it when I really wanted to get into modeling in high school and was the lightest I've ever been. I think so. I don't know. I think you did take it down. I think I might've left it. Oh, you did. I don't know.

I'm not sure. Or she took hers down. I can't remember. Something like that. It was one of them. But if I found that when I was, like, the lightest I've ever been not eating because I was really wanted to, like, model and all this, I don't know what that would have done to me. Yeah. It would have been so toxic. So I had to say something about it. But I've seen that over TikTok a ton.

Not just the one I duetted. I've seen it a few times. Yeah. Honestly, food combining is what fucking ruined me. Like, so bad. Oh, food combining is so weird. Ruined my digestion. Not only my digestion, but made me... Like, I was a whopping hundred pounds. Like, just looking back and thinking about that. Oh, my goodness. That's very much like a YouTube thing, I feel like. Yeah. Food combining. Yeah. Yeah.

And you know what's weird? Girls, I would do it. I would follow them, not because they food combined. I like them. Even Kenzie Burke is who made that popular. If you guys want to know about food, she's who made it popular. And there's some of her stuff I like. I've listened to her podcast. Every time I look at her stuff now, I'm just like, that's all I think about. I've listened to her podcast. I've seen her in YouTube videos, and I don't think she's a bad person. But when I see that that's how she eats and promotes to people, I'm like,

Yeah. What? Her digestion must be so freaking bad. Like, imagine if she had a sandwich with protein and carbs together. Like, just a sandwich. She would be shitting her brains out. Like, dead ass. I don't know. Like, oh my god, that's nuts. Like, no wonder she has to eat food combined because her digestion is so bad. Like, she did it the other way around.

Like combining her myth is that it makes your digestion better, easier to digest things. She's doing it the other way around because she restricted food groups for so long. So now when she does combine those things, it's game over. And that's how it was for me. I've literally, oh my God, I went through it. But I was like, I have to eat normal again. Thank God I never did that. I'm surprised I didn't. But I would self-consciously think about it. Yeah. When I watched girls that would do it, I would kind of think about it.

But honestly, thank God, it was honestly just too many rules for me to remember. Oh, I had it literally written down in my phone notes. If it wasn't so detailed, I may have tried it, but I just couldn't remember. And I feel like...

It was so detailed that I was like, oh, hell no, that was too much work. But I kind of wanted to try. I remember doing it with my friend Kylie from home. We literally did it together, and I sent it to her, and I go, oh, my God, we should try this. I started doing it because she used to – me and her started going to the gym together. And I sent it to her, and she literally said that. She goes, that's too much work. I can't do that. I was like, damn. It's so complicated. Like most diets, like keto, okay, that's no carb. Like they're kind of simple. Like they have like one thing, and this one is –

So many things. Even, oh, you know what did get to me in fruit, food combining? Fruit first. Yep. I thought having fruit at night was bad. So bad. Or having it on your oatmeal. No, like I thought fruit, see, I could maybe do that. Like breakfast, as long as I had it not as like a midday snack or late night snack, I thought about it. Like I felt like guilty about it. Dude,

Dude, I literally used to have my fruit first and then my oatmeal like two hours later. That's the thing. These girls, they're like, for breakfast, I drink a smoothie and then two seconds later have breakfast. And I'm like, why couldn't you eat that at once and be full? No, no, no. It was like a rule. It was like maximum weight was like 30 minutes before having breakfast after the fruit because the fruit takes 30 minutes to digest. And then if you had just breakfast,

protein, you had to wait like three hours to eat again because the protein takes three hours to digest. Now that I'm thinking about it, the fruit first did fruit was I felt like fruit in the middle of the day was a no. And if you get to the point where your diet makes you think that fruit is an unhealthy snack.

I cannot. That is one thing I did. People always ask me too. They're like, aren't you worried about all the sugars in the fruit? I'm like, what? Get out of here. I'm like, please tell me who educated you on that. Fiber, vitamins, antioxidants. Let's focus on those first of all. And what makes no sense about food combining is that no food is perfectly a carb, protein, or fat. Yeah. Like, what's an almond? Almond.

Carb, protein, fat, everything. Beans, carb, protein, fat. That's a good point. Even broccoli, a little bit of protein. A banana probably has like 0.5 grams. This is going deep into food combining right now. No, but it's true. It really is. Like no food is a perfect like carb. Yeah. They have something else. So that's just, yeah. Food combining, BS. That's very model diet-y. Yeah, it is. That's very model diet-y. I see...

Also with the model diet stuff is people kind of like when their full day of eating is like expensive, such fancy food. And it looks like no food is so fancy and expensive. Yeah. I'm like, that's so unnecessary. Like their smoothie has like all these add-ins in it and each bag of this stuff is like 20 bucks. I know. Unnecessary. It's kind of like the that girl aesthetic too. Yeah. But like...

Not fitness-wise, like, the wellness. I'm like, do you want to know our aesthetic? Yeah. Baguettees, blazers, protein powder, oatmeal. Yeah, we have our own fat girl aesthetic. But the wellness side of, like, it's not all wellness people, but, like, some of them that, like, model diet-y, like, eat only, like, whole foods. Yeah. Like, it's so toxic. That is where the majority of my...

came from is that like eating whole foods, like food combining, fruit first, blah, blah, blah. Like I'd rather be okay with eating processed food and tracking my macros. Yep. Because the whole food thing, like my digestion has never been so fucking good in this entire life. I'm so happy about it because I can eat every two hours. Amazing. And sometimes I'm like, okay, I need to go to the bathroom. But that's a good thing.

I guess another transition to food is the one that... Lying about full days of eating. Okay? It happens, people. Whether people are lying that they're eating more than they are, less than they are, whatever. Different foods, whatever. Someone will say on their Instagram they are eating 300 plus grams of carbs. Hell fucking no, they probably aren't if... Actually, that's a lie. I'm sorry. What's...

Just don't always believe what people are telling you on social media, okay? Someone can be completely lying because they want you to believe them. I really don't know what the method is behind it and why it's a lie. I don't know. I think there's different sides. I think a lot of it with girls is either they eat... I think a lot of it's eating less than they say. So either on the fitness side, someone might be like, look at all I eat. And they're like show-ready shredded. Yeah. And it's like...

Unless you have the metabolism of a lifetime, I don't know about that. And I think the other part of it is you know when girls, not necessarily fitness girls, but girls are just like really teeny. And they're like, look what I ate today. And it's like a donut and a burger and a pizza. No way you eat like that every single day. You don't. And then it's kind of weird because it makes it seem like, oh, well, like she's literally a size double zero and eats burgers every day. That's one day. And I think that's just horrible.

Yeah. So toxic. And with the fitness thing, I think it's just very messy to lie about what you eat. Guys, I will literally film a whole full day of eating, and if I realize I forgot to film one little snack, I won't post it. Same. Because I feel like it's just a lie. I literally had one, and I was like, shit. Like, I was, like, munching, like, I, like, munch a lot, like, on, like, random things that are, like, tomatoes or just, like, rice cakes or whatever, and if I don't put it in, I'm like, well, fuck. Yeah, because to me, it's just, like, a lie. Yeah. Because then if people are, like...

I don't know. I just can't lie about what I eat. I can't do it. And so many people do, guys. Just trust us. We've seen behind the scenes. We know. And it's also obvious. Yeah. Like, there's that one girl who's super famous for it. I don't know if you've ever seen her. She's really famous for this. Every name I'm saying, if you look this up, they're, like, literally the most famous person for it. It's no one we, like, know. It's literally what they're known for. The girl that's vegan and says she eats 4,000 calories.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. She's, like, diced. Yeah, I know who you're talking about. I don't know what her name is. Me neither. But she says she eats, like, 4,000 calories. Every fitness person ever has made a video on this girl. She says she eats 4,000 calories. I haven't seen her videos in forever. She stopped posting. Oh, she did? I think so. Oh, okay. But she says she ate 4,000 calories. Yeah. And everyone was like, absolutely not. She's, I kid you not, maybe 90 pounds. Yeah. I don't know that. And it's just crazy. Yeah. Yeah.

It's like I feel bad. No, I feel for those people immensely. I think it's just people. I also feel for our audience that sees it and is misled. Yeah, exactly. You know, so it's like we can't pretend that it's not a problem because there is a certain responsibility. Like I totally respect the struggles. I would rather you post. I mean, posting super low cows is also like...

crazy dangerous. I saw one the other day. The other girl was like, it was maybe like 800 calories. Yeah. Even girls that just like aren't educated enough on like fitness or nutrition, they just throw out like a random day of eating. Just because like someone will be like, oh my God, what's your day of eating look like? Just because they like went viral for something. Yeah. And they post their full day of eating and it's like a thousand calories. And people are like, oh my God, good to know. Like, I love this. Thank you. Like keep posting these. Yeah.

I don't know. They're so, they're really, really iffy. And I think you got to find, got to find people you can trust. I promise every single full day of eating I've hosted is what I eat.

Yeah. I guess I posted more of them. I just love posting my recipes. Same. I'm going to post one, I think, Sunday. It's been on my list and I keep forgetting and I keep eating out. So I need to post one. But that is such a big thing and it's so bad because if you see a girl eating a lot, like let's say they're like, here are my macros, 300 grams of carbs, and they're shredded and then you eat that, even though no one's macros are the same. If you eat that much, if the normal person is eating 300 grams of carbs a day, you're not going to be shredded.

Yeah. Like, that's just, you might not gain a lot of weight depending on your metabolism, but you're probably not going to be, like, vascular shredded. Yeah. Unless you are genetically the most gifted person I've ever seen. So I feel like that'd be so discouraging. Yeah, it would be. I don't, like, full days of eating. I don't know.

Love them, hate them. You just gotta find the most reliable people that you can trust. And you gotta know, too, I guess the responsibility of the audience is you have to be responsible for the fact that you're using it. I post them for meal inspiration to show people that eating a vegan diet high in protein is pretty freaking easy. I eat really basic meals. So that's the main reason I like to post it because...

You know, when I was looking for meals, I'd watch a ton. Never to eat exactly what they eat, but just to see, like, cool meals, cool things to go together, different snack options. So I guess there is a responsibility on...

on like you guys because even if you followed our full days of eating like we don't post it for that yeah we're not posting it for you guys like legit have the same breakfast lunch dinner that I posted for your full day like adjust it based on your macros that's why I hate sometimes putting my macros for a certain meal on

on there because I'm like, so like my, my oatmeal every morning. Okay. Like everyone will be like, okay, how much protein is in that? I'm like, well, it's dependent on how much protein you need for the day. Like I put a full scoop of protein, but if you're able to eat, hit your protein girl a little bit easier, you're

Maybe you just need half a scoop of protein. Yeah. You know, like it doesn't have to be exact macros that I'm using because, you know, sometimes I'm, I like getting my protein through my bowl of oatmeal in the morning with my full scoop of protein, but.

I don't know. You don't need to be copying macros that exact result. Yeah. And that's such like if you look up full day of eating on TikTok, I'm pretty sure probably 80 percent are toxic. Yeah. And just utter toxic. There's even accounts for it. There's going to be like skinny full day of eating. Oh, yeah. I've seen eating like I've seen one Clementine like a day and they post it. Oh, my God. Imagine having one Clementine for a snack.

I have like three of them if I'm having a snack. Dude, but that's... I think the last things we want to talk about are more like exercise. Yeah. Focus. We're going to do a 180 right now. This gets Sam heated. This gets me freaking heated. I don't know. I'm wired up. All of them get me heated. But like my biggest thing in the gym, two, these are two things, is making your workouts more complicated than they need to be. Like your exercises. Or...

freaking full body circuit exercises that just don't need to be done. Like I see way too many dumbbell based like workouts where it's like a freaking, you know, bicep curl to a backward squat to a,

press like all in one, but it's like, that's all the content they're posting though. Like, yeah, sure. Those workouts can be great. Like if you want to get your body moving, sweating, whatnot, but if that's the only content you're posting and you are saying like, this is how you got your body from like these types of exercises, it's not like, I'm sorry, but it's just not. Yeah. And I, and I've done those at home. I've done workouts that have them like YouTube videos, follow them. But I would say for those just devil's advocate, um,

Two moves connected I feel like is the most you can do. Because then let's say a bicep curl to a squat to a press. Your biceps have literally already rested 10 seconds. You're not going to fatigue your muscle. Because they're just complicated. You're not even going to focus on the thing you're working on. I get it if your goal is to burn some calories, sweat. Move for the sake of moving. But if your goal is to put on muscle and...

maybe lose some weight because you are more beneficial to lose weight by building muscle that is not going to be the answer for you especially because those workouts are also probably done by people who think they're toning yeah which we've already said is straight nonsense

And that's kind of all over, like, Instagram, people doing just, like, absurd random combinations of movements. Because it catches your eye. It does catch your eye. And in the gym, there's always people posting, like, just... In my opinion is when it's, like, absurd ways to use machines. Yes, way too absurd. Like, just, like, hip thrusting on the leg extension? No. Using...

I don't know. Using anything for something just so crazy. Using the cables to do sissy squats? No. You don't need to do that. You can use the Smith machine. Use a barbell. My gym at home has a bench which has the little bars on the bottom that you can use. Lift has a sissy squat. Yes, a sissy squat actual machine for it. There's just so many other alternatives. You don't need to make things complicated. Yeah, it would...

It kind of makes it look scary. Yeah. Intimidating. And it's literally hard to use equipment wrong. Like, 10 out of 10 would not recommend. Yeah. And some people aren't always doing that in the gym. Also, people in your gym would hate you. Like, if you're using... They would hate you. If you're using the pull-up machine to do, like, a step-down...

Like, you don't need to do that. There's more beneficial ways to target your glutes. If you were sitting on a bench to do hip thrust on the Smith machine, I would hate you because I need the bench. You can hip thrust on the floor. Yeah. Like, there's zero difference to being elevated. Yeah. To being on the ground. And if someone else can use the bench and you're just going to use it to do that. Unless it's, like, empty. But using...

I think we've talked about this before. What episode were we talking about this on? I think we did.

I don't think deja vu right now. Same. But, like, even, like, the hip thrusts on, like, the hamstring curl machine. Yeah. Don't be doing weird things. Like, don't think that those weird things in the gym, because they're different, are, like, more efficient or better or a shortcut. Like, just stick to the hip thrusts on a barbell. Stick to the normal things and don't think you have to do some wild, crazy exercise to see any type of result.

Because that's another thing that goes viral kind of fast if you show something different. Yeah. Like, exercise I used to grow my glutes and it's something people haven't seen. It's like, oh, whoa. Yeah. I should use a bench to hip thrust. That's another thing, too, is, like, even with, like, personal trainers and, like, clients, like, the relationship between the two. Like, oh, if a client's like, oh, I'm getting really bored of this or I'm really tired of this. So then the client or the trainer will, like, completely change, like, the programming and make them do, like,

fun exercises just so they don't get bored and want to leave them. No, keep it basic, stick to the basics, keep it relatively the same. And that's how you're going to see results.

I just, I don't understand like when I see like programs out there, out there and they're just like all these crazy things. Yeah. Just so it's fun. Because we change our accessories week to week. Our compounds stay the same and the accessories are still just variations of the same thing. If you scroll through our Instagram, every workout you'll see is the same. Yeah. We talked about this last week when we were programming workouts. Yeah.

Oh, yeah. Okay, so this is basically that people talk about it wrong. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We talked about programming workouts. You'll see that they're the same, but we do slightly different things. We don't switch one week to the next doing some wild circuit because we feel like that's four consistent results that's not going to work. It's just not going to work, and people...

People are always doing weird stuff like that in the gym. Weird things. And I get it if you're uneducated, but if it's a fitness influencer telling you to do these things, then I'm like, okay, you're literally just doing it for clickbait to get some videos out there to get more engagement. Like, I get it. Like, newbies, if you're out there doing these things, like, I'm not judging you. I'm not judging you. I'm judging the influencers and personal trainers out there that are...

Doing all these whack things. Because if it's crazy things and, like, a bunch of movements thrown together, it's pretty much going to be, like, cardio rather than growing, like, putting on muscle mass. Even if you're using weight for the workouts, you're not really, like, doing any type of progressive overload or, like, no way to measure intensity at all. So you're pretty much just doing cardio. Yep. And that's about it. If you do those crazy workouts, I was going to see if there's anything, like,

I can think of on TikTok right now. Or maybe that I see that is just horrendous. But that's like just some horrible things I see daily. All the time. Hopefully we can help a bunch of you. Yes, I hope so. And hopefully you stray away from the

horrible horrible sides of tiktok that just confuse everybody that's honestly what it is it just makes it so confusing yeah it really does there's some people that act like they know nothing then there's people that act like they know every single thing in the world and that everyone else is wrong and that they're the only way of doing things even though what everyone else is doing is the most basic yeah knowledge of all time they think that they have some crazy solution

And you don't know people with good bodies just think that they're fitness influencers because they have a good body. Did you see someone post like maturing in the gym is realizing Summer Rae is a fitness influencer? Yes, that one made me laugh so hard. But there's people that think that. Yeah. I used to think that. That's nuts to me. I literally used to think that. And then I saw her squat and I was like, oh, wait a minute. Wait a minute. That...

Like we said, some people don't eat how they say. Some people also don't work out how they say. Yeah. Yes, that is so facts. Some people don't work out how they say they do. They will say they do certain things or they work out a certain way, but they don't post it. They don't do it. They don't post it. We'll never know. We'll never know. Unless you're in person with them. We'll never know. And what we post is what we do. So I think it's just weird when it's like, hmm, you just...

Made that up and threw it on the internet. I feel like y'all are going to come into our DMs and be like, who are you talking about? Tell me. It's so funny. But it's just like, it's just stuff to watch out for. If someone's not like showing you that they're doing it, it's like, I don't know. Like, how is that going to help you? Yeah. You have no idea how it's going to work for you, how you should do it, the like results they get. Like, you have no clue. Such a puppy. Huh.

I feel so relieved after venting about this for an hour. This is a vent sesh. This is just a vent sesh of the stupid things on the internet, like straight horrible things on TikTok. I think that's mostly what it is. It's just horrible full days of eating, clickbait titles, and ridiculous workouts. Yep. You just summarized that in one sentence. I did. You did. Our entire podcast, we just summarized it in one sentence. Yeah, that's it. I'm going to cut the rest and just put that. Honestly, guys, that's it.

And if you realize, if you look at all the content, you'll realize it's one of those. Yep. Like, it's one of them. If they're not... I mean, my old stuff, even... I'm not even saying I'm perfect. Please don't scroll back on my TikTok. When I got followers and posting fitness stuff, I was just posting, like, my journey for fun. I didn't think I was ever going to become, like, a source. Yeah, right? You know? Me too. Like, I was like, I'm throwing this on TikTok because I think it's, like, fun and cute. Yeah. Like, I did not think I was...

like literally gonna become like known for this yeah I thought it was just like this is fun to post in quarantine at my house and then I was like oh wait people watch these yeah I was like hold up so times have changed for sure but also it's times I've changed but I also was working out at my house with one pair of dumbbells yeah so there's those circumstances like yeah you can't change like you have one pair of dumbbells I had one pair of dumbbells in a booty band yeah you know I had to

I had to make it work. But so like quarantine is quarantine, but. Oh, sorry. It's okay. Well, I think it's been an hour.

Yeah, it definitely has been. And this is a good one. This is a real good one. It's our true feelings. Juicy one. We should just get juicy on every single time. Yeah, we should. I feel like with the title of this podcast, we should just straight up. No holding back. None. I'm done holding back. You know why too? Maybe next one, we'll call them out with names. You guys can't comment on this. So we can say whatever we want. Yeah. All right, guys. We freaking love you. And I hope you guys enjoyed this. And hopefully we were able to help you out a little bit with that clickbait shit. Yeah.

But so long and see you at the next episode. See you next Friday. Bye.