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What's up, guys? Jeff Cavaliere Athleanx.com.
Look, I've been training for over 25 years, and
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I've seen it all. I've heard it all, but I haven't
quite seen things that are as disturbing as this.
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For all the years up to this point, what people
focused on was nutrition, workout routines, solid
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interest in bettering their physiques, and getting
themselves in shape. There is such a disturbing
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trend right now where those search terms and
even those interests have been replaced by
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TRT or interest in TRT, SARMs, Peptides,
Ozempic. You've got things like diet plan,
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we all used to think was the way we lost weight,
being dramatically eclipsed in interest level by
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Ozempic, a drug given to Type 2 diabetes patients
that is being abused by people as a means of
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losing weight rather than following a diet plan.
You've got people who are googling TRT at a much
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higher rate. At the same time, you see a steep
drop off in one of the most classic search terms
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of all time when it comes to workouts, chest
workout. Everybody loves International Chest
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Day. You literally see a decline in chest workout
in favor of TRT. We need to talk about this.
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If you think about these alternative solutions for
adding muscle or losing weight, does it ever cross
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your mind that they may not be safe either short
term or long term? And then when you apply the
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fact that these solutions are increasingly relied
upon by younger kids in their 20s, it becomes
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even that much more disturbing. The effort and the
interest in even putting out the effort initially
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to see how well you do in terms of building your
body is gone by the wayside in favor of opting
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for one of these solutions rather than actually
putting in the hard work. And there's actually
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interesting data around this. So, if you look back
in terms of usage, there was a pretty heightened
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spike in interest around the 2005, 2006 time, you
can see it here. That actually came down and then
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has seen a resurgence of late, especially as it
becomes more solution that people are relying
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upon, whether they need it or they don't. Do
you know that the only age group that didn't
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see sort of a wavering during that time period
is the 18 to 34 age group? They've only seen it
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steady increase from 2014 till now. Why? Do you
really honestly think that that many young guys
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are hypogonadal and in need of testosterone
replacement therapy? I mean, be, be honest. Let's
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fucking be serious here, honestly. And before
you answer that, why is it that there's also this
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increased willingness for people to simply say,
"Oh yeah, I'm on TRT?" You and I both know what
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that means. That in a small percentage of people
who actually need it, it's a valid statement,
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and a large percentage of young guys who say
that it's a soft launch for I'm on steroids.
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You know it. It's like I'm going to it's a test
study on how my friends and family react to me
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telling them that I'm on steroids, but I'm going
to kind of ease them in with saying I'm on TRT.
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Oh, the 200mg of testosterone I'm taking right
now, totally prescribed TRT. I need it. First
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of all, I don't know many people that need
that much testosterone. And even those that
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are taking lesser dosages probably don't need
that much either. It's become an on-ramp or
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an excuse for people. And I'm sorry if you've
taken that road and you feel offended by this.
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I have to call it out because I don't think that
there's an evaluation of the potential risk. Now,
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I don't want to turn this video into their
dangerous or all of these things are dangerous.
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A lot of them are frankly untested. Some of
them actually show benefits, but they're still
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untested. They haven't been around that long,
when you talk about peptides and SARMs, relatively
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speaking. You don't have a lot of long-term data
that talks about its safety to validate your use
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of them. And people who actually have been relying
on these things as crutches for a lack of effort
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just simply pisses me off because you haven't even
tried. You haven't even tried. Or you might be a
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fitness model and think you need to do this stuff.
There are plenty of those out there too. And then
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they have the gall to make the video about
needing TRT because they were Hypogonadal.
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I don't -- I'm not buying it. Now, I'm not saying
that it doesn't happen. I shared in a previous
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video a friend of mine has a son who was on TRT,
and he had a pretty much zeroed-out testosterone
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level, his free testosterone were in the, were
in the toilet. So of course, living his -- the
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rest of his life like that wasn't going to be
a solution. But for every one of those guys,
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there are 100 who never even need to touch the
stuff. And again, you might argue the safety of
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it. We can all agree that there are some common
risks of increased prostate size, potentially,
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I'm just laying them out there. An increased
hematocrit or thickening of the blood that could
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lead to issues, cardiovascularly. There are hair
loss risks. There are issues with apnea, sleep
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apnea. Are you evaluating the potential risks,
though? Are you even concerned about the potential
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risks? And I actually think that this is an area
where people aren't -- the younger guys these days
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don't give a shit. If you look at TikTok, you've
got clear evidence of that, whether you're eating
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Tide pods or fucking putting beeswax on top of
your eyelids, so you don't fall asleep and you're
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causing blindness or you're doing a blackout
challenge. I mean, there -- for what? For views?
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You clearly aren't evaluating the risks. And when
it comes to me, I'm a risk evaluator. I'm a risk
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assessor. And risk assessment has probably led
me to not do things that I would have potentially
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wanted to do. Like, I'm not going to bullshit you
as a kid, I was a skinny kid. The ideal and the
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allure of steroids are something to build muscle
at a faster rate was high for me, very high. And I
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shared before how I did have a fear that my father
would kick my ass if he ever found out and throw
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me out of the house as a valid reason for me never
to touch it. But even beyond that, I was assessing
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risk even back then. My own personal risk of
longevity. A guy who looked at a life ahead of me
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and said, I don't know if that's a good idea. I've
never wanted to be on the leading edge of that
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research. They all may be proven to be safe. SARMs
and peptides and TRT and everything else may all
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be proven safe. I may be the asshole years from
now thinking, Geez, I wish I took that. You know,
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some of the same studies that talked about the
heart-destructive potential for TRT came back and
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said it's actually heart protective. That could
be a cool thing. That could be great. So, it could
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be actually something we all should be taking
as men as we get older. But I don't think the
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research proves that yet. And as I said, I don't
want to be on that leading edge of research.
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And here's the reason why I don't think we need
to take those risks. And this is the big crux
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of the video and what gets me so heated about
this. Because there's an alternative that works.
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You know it, I know it, everyone watching the
video knows it. There's an alternative that
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works if you're willing to put in the time and the
consistency. And I'm sorry, but this is where in
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a world of 10-second TikToks and shorts and shit
like that, that people's attention span has gone,
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that they can't even focus on a month's worth
of workouts or a year's worth of workouts or,
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God forbid, five years worth of training and good
nutrition. They can't think about it. They can't
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fathom the consistency that's needed there. And
if it's you, I feel bad because you don't need
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these alternative solutions you haven't even
tried yet. If you're one of the ones that has
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been diagnosed as medically needing whatever these
solutions are, then by all means, of course, I'm
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not putting you down. Do it. But when you think
about the alternative of consistency and effort,
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here's another revelation that might blow your
mind. I don't care what you do. You don't have to
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use Athlean-X. You'd be smart if you did, but you
don't have to. You can do whatever the hell you
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want. You want to bulk and cut till the cows come
home? Go ahead and bulk and cut. If it's giving
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you the results you want, then stick with it.
If you want to eat Keto, go ahead, follow a Keto
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diet. If you want to follow a carnivore diet?
Go ahead, follow a carnivore diet. You want to
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follow a sensible diet? Follow Athlean-X. I'm just
kidding. What I'm saying here is I don't care what
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method you use, but there are so many options. You
want to do effective reps, do effective reps. You
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want to do long workouts, do long workouts.
You want to do push, pull legs, total body,
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whatever it is you want to do, there are so many
things you can try that if you consistently put
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in the effort, it will work. Don't seek out these
alternative solutions as a bypassing method for
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that. And that's what's happening. That's what's
happening. So we're at the point now where the
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common questions I used to get, "Jeff, how do
I fix my rotator cuff?" "Jeff, how do I get abs
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like that?" Jeff, what do I actually supposed to
-- what am I supposed to eat in a day?" "How much
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protein do you eat?" "What do you recommend for
a good chest workout?" "What do you do...?" No,
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those have all been replaced by, "Should I start
taking TRT? Seriously, Jeff, I want to know."
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"Should I take SARMs? What do you think about
SARMs?" "Hey, peptides seem to be great." "Hey,
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a friend of mine is losing a whole bunch of
weight with Ozempic. Do you think I should
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do that too?" By the way, on Ozempic new studies
coming out, the weight loss that you're actually
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seeing is not really helping you very much
because you're losing more muscle than fat.
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So, while you might be getting
lighter, you're getting fatter.
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Go tell that to somebody that you know who's
probably run to this. And by the way, in the
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process made it hard for diabetics to actually
get the medicine. Do you see how crazy this is?
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Focus your effort on what has worked before. Try
to drive chest workout back up again in the search
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terms and maybe leave TRT on a decline. Not for
those that need it, but just let's see if we can
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make that shift. Focus on what needs to be focused
on again, and I think it'll be a lot happier with
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it because you'll be a lot prouder of the fact
that you've put effort back in and removed a lot
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of the early excuses that you've been trying to
make. Guys, I hope you found the video helpful. If
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you're looking for the no-excuse ways to do what
we do, it's always been available at Athleanx.com
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and it certainly is there now. If you're looking
for more videos, guys, if you want me to kind of
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every now and then, pull off the earmuffs so you
guys get a little bit of the truth, I'm happy
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to do that, too. All right, guys, I'm back here
again with another video. I'll see you soon.
