r/fitnesscirclejerk Versus Fotis Chatzinicolaou

 

r/fitnesscirclejerk Versus Fotis Chatzinicolaou

Hey omorfe,

(reminder this mean good-looking man in Greek)

Yesterday, r/fitnesscirclejerk (a subreddit on, um, Reddit) shared my “one exercise to banish in 2022” piece.

As expected, most of the comments were A+ entertainment.

Plus, they only focused on my training recommendations and humor.

Imagine what would happen if they also knew that I:

• hit on multiple girls on the public almost daily
• paint my nails dark green
• am an anime/manga geek who rewatches/rereads his favorite series multiple times
• prefer supporting animal shelters over big non-profit organizations that help hoomans
• believe Donal Trump is someone to study if you’re interested in becoming successful (Success, after all, is your ability to hit your goals and is a morally neutral word)

Anyway, let’s see a few of those comments along with my thoughts:

HTUT-2 D-2 wrote:

“That whole user reads like someone put a lot of time and effort into a satirical account to avoid dealing with any more rejection letters from publishers.”

I haven’t shared this but I’m actually a vampire who has lived for centuries.

Since I can’t die, I have a lot of time on my cold hands.

So I create satirical accounts on Reddit, the place where mere mortals go to have their time wasted.

Moving on…

When someone shared my humorous description about myself (Fotis is hailed as the best coach in the world, and the most beautiful man in fitness. Both titles are given to Fotis by his mom), MoanAbides wrote:

“I struggle to really wrap my head around that level of narcissism. Even if he knows he’s full of shit and is just hustling, hoping idiots believe the hype of this dude no one has ever heard of, the audacity of the claims are just insane.”

It’s all good.

Let’s hope Moans here lives in a democracy. So it’s not against the law for him to not understand humor.

Up next…

Assleanx gives a great business suggestion:

“I’m guessing (obviously besides the fact that he’s Greek) that the end goal is to look like a Greek statue. I hope he’s giving his followers tips on how to shrink their genitalia because small penises mean more rationality”

Thank you good sir/lady/thing.

I’ll shorty announce my upcoming program, Grecian Genitalia Shrinking, to my audience. Hopefully it will kick glutes and take surnames.

I understand you’re an expert in small D’s so I’ll reach out to you for advice and, why not, an interview that will (and I hope I don’t offend you with this verb) *enlarge* the value of the finished product.

_ILikeItRaw feels better and has to share this:

“Sometimes I worry that I’m yelling into a void on the internet to make up for a lack of real-life socialisation. Then I see this guy writing weekly novellas with 0 comments and feel slightly better about myself.”

Weekly?

How dare you.

I’m writing daily.

But since this guy likes it raw, avoids humans, and actively searches for others who do worse than him (instead of trying to improve) in order to feel better, maybe I should start writing twice each day? If it’s going to help at least one tormented soul, it might be worth it.

Finally…

naked_beef has a big but semi-decent comment that’s worth discussing so let’s see it:

“What do these people imagine is the big difference between something like a Romanian deadlift and regular conventional deadlifts? They’re like 90% the same damn movement. Just because people typically train them lighter and slower, top-down, having an emphasis on the eccentric, and with some kind of intention to be a hamstring “isolation” movement (MMC?), that doesn’t mean they’re all that different.

This idea that a conventional deadlift is “bad” for growth of the hamstrings and/or glutes — but that Romanian deadlifts are magically the best thing ever for them — it just makes no sense. Especially when people do them with a limited range of motion, as they are often done. You know, slowly lower until you feel a stretch in the hamstrings and then come back up. It’s *less” range of motion. Limiting knee bend, the other part of Romanians, doesn’t even really come into play when you’re only lowering 3 inches below the knee. You wouldn’t have that much knee bend at that part of the movement with conventional deads, either.

So people turn them into a partial top-down conventional dead, with lower intensities, higher reps, further from failure. You can just do all of those things with conventional deads. Literally all of them.

The complaints people list for problems with conventional deads all come down to some poor management of the combination of load/intensity, volume, and technique. Romanians don’t inherently cure any of those things — typically people just do them differently. Like, yeah, a lot of high intensity sets close to failure is a fatiguing way to include deadlifts. If that’s the complaint, just … don’t do them that way. And the idea that that’s bad for growth compared to Romanians? Seems like a load of crap to me.

I assume this is basically this guy’s blog, right? No subscribers, no comments on any of the posts. It’s just him musing to himself?

Or does he think he has an audience?

… Oh. He has a website.

Oh. Oh….”

He actually has good points.

Mainly, the difference between Romanians and conventional is small.

But I’m a firm believer of the “small hinges swing big doors” mindset.

Meaning, small tweaks can benefit you enormously.

Here’s a tiny list of examples:

* Elbow pain when performing dumbbell curls? Place your thumb next to your index finger and you’ll lower/eliminate the pain.

* Can’t feel your quads during leg extensions? Flex and hold your legs up at the top of each rep

* Knee pain when performing lunges or bulgarian splits? Bend forward a lil during each rep

* Can’t feel the chest during barbell bench press? Apply inward pressure with your hands and maintain it from top to bottom

* Low back pain when deadlifting? Try moving one of your feet a little bit forward and see if things improve (I bet this will trigger 99% of people who don’t understand anatomy and so be it)

Side note:

I love how some people say I have zero followers on Reddit and, “hur hur hur that’s cause he’s full of shit and nobody follows him”

Sorry lil snow flakes, but I’m not interested in building my business on platforms I can’t control. Reddit, Facebook, Youtube, Twitter, Pinterest, and others have shown how eager they are to ban and delete people if they dare say something that goes against the grain (just look what happened in the Cobitch-69 era)

Personally, I focus on building assets I can control. I couldn’t care less about having zero followers on platforms that can throw me out whenever they please without an explanation.

End of side note

Anyway, I’m actually happy they shared my content and they commented.

They proved a point I’ve been making for a long time:

People get really emotional when you offer them a different point of view.

And I know that’s the case because I wrote this:

“In the past I’ve talked about “exercise traditionalism”. As you may remember, you have E.T. when you’re absolutely adamant about performing exercises that disagree with your body.”

Keywords: disagree with your body.

You wanna stick to conventional deadlifts?

Great.

All the power to you.

For my clients (busy professional men with mediocre genetics) I’ve experimented and found better alternatives to conventional deadlift. And yes, even if it’s 90% the same as the Romanian variation, that tiny 10% can make a huge difference depending on how you structure the workouts.

Anyway, I wanna thank all my unpaid marketing interns over at r/fitnesscirclejerk. I don’t know you from Adam and Eve but you provided some A+ entertainment for me and my -1,2a9,852 followers.

Now, if you’re someone who chuckled and are interested in discovering more about my work, start by grabbing my one sentence muscle building plan at:

http://grecianman.com/

Your Greek buddy,

Fotis “Most Hated Real-Life Coach In r/fitnesscirclejerk?” Chatzinicolaou