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Just a general comment after watching a lot of training clips on the web in the past few years. I kind of stopped following the sport awhile ago. I was kind of offline more than on back in the covid working from home days.
I started watching a lot of training videos that were coming up in my feed. Maybe it's dilution because so many videos are made each week and it just gets repetitive.
The sport has really seemed to have changed and maybe the Instagram youtube culture has contributed but I miss the days of the cutler and coleman training videos where they absolutely destroyed every known fiber in their muscles trained. Just all out bombing and blitzing. When Nick Walker burst on the scene a few years ago he was destroying some serious weights. Like 405 free weight militaries and 200 pound dumbells. Now when I watch most of his vids I about fall asleep. Mostly machines and tons of chatter between sets. I notice the same with Labrada Iain and some of the others like Brett Wilkin and Fitzwater. Many now have Hypertrophy coaches and do a lot of stretch and squeeze sets on machines with perfect form.
All seem to use the same terms like "top set" and other things. Sometimes I wonder if I am watching the same videos over and over again.
I don't know if it's a trend like everything else everyone dresses the same pushes their own supplements trains the same poses the same it's like one big cookie cutter or stencil.
They could be just trying to avoid injury and continue to refine their physiques as a lot of them like Nick and Iain have probably topped out their mass.
Does this seem off to you guys or am I on point here with some of the observations?
I started watching a lot of training videos that were coming up in my feed. Maybe it's dilution because so many videos are made each week and it just gets repetitive.
The sport has really seemed to have changed and maybe the Instagram youtube culture has contributed but I miss the days of the cutler and coleman training videos where they absolutely destroyed every known fiber in their muscles trained. Just all out bombing and blitzing. When Nick Walker burst on the scene a few years ago he was destroying some serious weights. Like 405 free weight militaries and 200 pound dumbells. Now when I watch most of his vids I about fall asleep. Mostly machines and tons of chatter between sets. I notice the same with Labrada Iain and some of the others like Brett Wilkin and Fitzwater. Many now have Hypertrophy coaches and do a lot of stretch and squeeze sets on machines with perfect form.
All seem to use the same terms like "top set" and other things. Sometimes I wonder if I am watching the same videos over and over again.
I don't know if it's a trend like everything else everyone dresses the same pushes their own supplements trains the same poses the same it's like one big cookie cutter or stencil.
They could be just trying to avoid injury and continue to refine their physiques as a lot of them like Nick and Iain have probably topped out their mass.
Does this seem off to you guys or am I on point here with some of the observations?