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youtube is FLOODED with free fitness content, I mean, you could workout for five years and never see the same video twice its all evergreen - crunches from fiv

youtube is FLOODED with free fitness content, I mean, you could workout for five years and never see the same video twice its all evergreen - crunches from five years ago are just as good today everyone I know who worked as a personal trainer has moved out of the industry endless free resources out there and then the content connected to devices like Peloton etc not sure how you can make a buck in this business want to track your progress? look in the mirror or guesstimate

FredPret 1y ago
Conversely, a tidal flood of free content, much of which is low quality, can motivate a consumer to shell out $$$ for something that's more curated, limited, and has a guaranteed lower limit on quality. I know because I've done this many times in many contexts, with everything from fitness apps to programming courses to buying the latest fiction books. With all of these, there are multiple lifetimes' of free, good content out there, but good luck mining the nuggets out from the thick layer of slop.
- maqp 1y ago
  Yup, I have no idea what's the point of gazillion YouTube shorts on exercises that have perfectly good tutorials by experienced people, available already. E.g., https://www.youtube.com/@RenaissancePeriodization/playlists https://www.youtube.com/@RenaissancePeriodization/playlists has ridiculously good per-body-part demonstration playlists if you scroll down a bit.
  - FredPret 1y ago
    You joke but this is exactly what I'm talking about. This channel must have hundreds of hours of content, and I'm sure much of it is good, but I don't have hundreds of hours. Instead, I will send hundreds of dollars to some trusted person to distill hundreds of hours into an app or something that I can use immediately.
    - maqp 1y ago
      No I did not joke. If you bother to open one of the playlists I referred to, you can find e.g. 10 rear delt exercises demonstrated in under 15 second videos with extremely good tldr advice. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34gVHrkaiz0&list=PLyqKj7LwU2Rv-tzrJev2STMTIGt_JeugT https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34gVHrkaiz0&list=PLyqKj7LwU2... Mike Israetel who runs the channel is in the top-5 in scientific body building circles. And you can get those same videos in their app https://rpstrength.com/pages/hypertrophy-app https://rpstrength.com/pages/hypertrophy-app Personally I'd use Jefit or Hevy over RP, but the point stands.
      - FredPret 1y ago
        Every point you make is fair but the point still stands: you had to find this stuff first. And if I did not know about him and typed "rear delt exercise" into Youtube, there will be an endless amount of slop before I personally would run into this guy. I'd gladly pay for this guy's app if I were in the market for a new workout plan. My point is that free content does not eliminate the market for paid content.
maqp 1y ago
Jefit isn't about video tutorials, but keeping track of your progress in specific exercises, and performing correct amount of volume to progress but not over-train, a thing that becomes harder when you advance and your progress starts to slow down. At that point avoiding stagnation requires a lot more optimization and an app that can tell incremental progress in bench is more motivating than looking at the mirror and seeing very small changes. Also, for powerlifters the mirror is a poor tool since it's not about hypertrophy and body shape.
sergiotapia 1y ago
> want to track your progress? look in the mirror or guesstimate Do you lift? That's not a good way to track progress.

FredPret 1y ago

Conversely, a tidal flood of free content, much of which is low quality, can motivate a consumer to shell out $$$ for something that's more curated, limited, and has a guaranteed lower limit on quality. I know because I've done this many times in many contexts, with everything from fitness apps to programming courses to buying the latest fiction books. With all of these, there are multiple lifetimes' of free, good content out there, but good luck mining the nuggets out from the thick layer of slop.

maqp 1y ago
Yup, I have no idea what's the point of gazillion YouTube shorts on exercises that have perfectly good tutorials by experienced people, available already. E.g., https://www.youtube.com/@RenaissancePeriodization/playlists https://www.youtube.com/@RenaissancePeriodization/playlists has ridiculously good per-body-part demonstration playlists if you scroll down a bit.
- FredPret 1y ago
  You joke but this is exactly what I'm talking about. This channel must have hundreds of hours of content, and I'm sure much of it is good, but I don't have hundreds of hours. Instead, I will send hundreds of dollars to some trusted person to distill hundreds of hours into an app or something that I can use immediately.
  - maqp 1y ago
    No I did not joke. If you bother to open one of the playlists I referred to, you can find e.g. 10 rear delt exercises demonstrated in under 15 second videos with extremely good tldr advice. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34gVHrkaiz0&list=PLyqKj7LwU2Rv-tzrJev2STMTIGt_JeugT https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34gVHrkaiz0&list=PLyqKj7LwU2... Mike Israetel who runs the channel is in the top-5 in scientific body building circles. And you can get those same videos in their app https://rpstrength.com/pages/hypertrophy-app https://rpstrength.com/pages/hypertrophy-app Personally I'd use Jefit or Hevy over RP, but the point stands.
    - FredPret 1y ago
      Every point you make is fair but the point still stands: you had to find this stuff first. And if I did not know about him and typed "rear delt exercise" into Youtube, there will be an endless amount of slop before I personally would run into this guy. I'd gladly pay for this guy's app if I were in the market for a new workout plan. My point is that free content does not eliminate the market for paid content.

maqp 1y ago

Jefit isn't about video tutorials, but keeping track of your progress in specific exercises, and performing correct amount of volume to progress but not over-train, a thing that becomes harder when you advance and your progress starts to slow down. At that point avoiding stagnation requires a lot more optimization and an app that can tell incremental progress in bench is more motivating than looking at the mirror and seeing very small changes. Also, for powerlifters the mirror is a poor tool since it's not about hypertrophy and body shape.

sergiotapia 1y ago

> want to track your progress? look in the mirror or guesstimate Do you lift? That's not a good way to track progress.