Supposedly back in his “bodybuilding days” (when he was 260 lbs and 12% bf - at 5’7?! -lol), he would reverse grip bench 500 lbs… (Bwah-ha-ha-ha-ha!!!)
Think about that for a moment,… Anyone recall what the Barbarian brothers used to look like? I don’t think they handled weights that Blaha claims to have and they were super human specimens indeed! I’m sure plenty of online fitness folks exaggerate SLIGHTLY, but the thought that Jason honestly thinks people buy any of his insane claims just shows how far gone he is.
I’m glad I clicked on this. I used to feel bad for periodically watching blaha for the entertainment but now that I know I’m not alone I feel like it’s okay.
He was actually one of the very first sources of info I came across when I decided to like, lift some weights instead of sitting on my ass all the time about four years ago.
I never followed any of his specific advice, but he seemed like an authority on lifting and I recall a lot of online hype around his ice cream fitness program, insomuch as it was popping up in the searches I was doing at the time.
I got caught up on his shenanigans last night. What a guy!
It really is amazing how slow and drawn out his social media “death” is taking. Most (if not all) of his videos have been demonetized by YouTube, so he’s not even making money off spending his days trying to churn out videos on topics he’s covered many times over already… anything not to get a job I suppose…
I wanted to be a professional football (soccer) and/or basketball player as a kid. And I was sure I would be. Then I discovered beer and girls and by the time I knew where I was I was in my early 20s and too old for it. So I became a lawyer instead.
Seems like Jason Blaha never had that kind of awakening…which is a shame because he’s obviously a man of reasonable intelligence who could have applied himself productively in any number of ways.
What does everyone think about all the social media fitness people getting de-monetized on YouTube and having their content taken down/blocked on Facebook and Instagram lately for being inappropriate or ‘triggering’ or whatever?
@IronAndMetal if they’ve violated the host’s terms they really can’t complain about it, to be honest. It’s no different to any other job surely, break the rules and you become subject to them and may lose your salary/revenue stream…
‘Triggering’ means that something offends someone, that something ‘triggers’ them.
For example, Lui Marco had a video up where he said that a bodybuilder had “killer triceps” and that statement was deemed ‘triggering’ (aka offensive) and the video was demonetized.
I guess that was the kind of concept I was referencing. It’s one thing to show dead bodies or lynchings or mob violence of some kind, but quite another to ascribe an adjective to a muscle group…yet they are both deemed inappropriate and unsuitable for any audience?
I completely understand that Google, Instagram, Twitter, etc are all private companies. Thus, play by their rules or don’t play at all. But…is an algorithm that looks for certain words/images but fails to take context into consideration helpful at all?
Google once pulled out of China because of censorship(of course, there were other reasons but this was the one they made a big fuss about publicly). Now it looks like they’re doing the same thing that they’re opposed to. I don’t like it at all.
@IronAndMetal gotcha. Yeah that’s pretty ridiculous. I suppose a little bit of that is inevitable as a by product of automation (it’s that or employ tens of thousands of people just to monitor new content), but you’d expect they’d have a procedure in place to rectify that kind of obvious screw up quickly.
See, if we didn’t have Blaha, we wouldn’t have things like this. And I would never have nearly laughed myself into a coma. There’s always good that comes with the bad.
