 So for those of you who don't know there is a channel run by a man named Alan Roberts and his channel is called Every Damn Day Fitness and some people have a problem with his channel and that's what we're going to be talking about today. What is up everybody? This is Chris from The Rewired Soul where we talk about the problem but focus on the solution and if you're new to my channel what I try to do is take different topics going on in the YouTube community try to see what lessons we can learn from them to improve our own mental and emotional well-being. So if you're into that stuff make sure you subscribe and ring that notification bell and by the way make sure you're following me over on Instagram and Twitter at The Rewired Soul. I have a bunch of stuff going on and that is the best place to be if you want to stay up to date with all the cool news and all that stuff. Alright so anyways let me clarify real quick on the title I just I couldn't really think of another way to title it I don't have a problem with Alan Roberts or what he does on his channel I respect the hell out of this dude and you're gonna see why in this video alright but when I look at his channel and I see what he's doing and I see other things happening in the community or just even in society I look at the difference between like the mental health stigma and talking about like body appearance and everything like that and it's just really fascinating to me and I just kind of want to open this up and try to have a conversation with everybody and see what your thoughts are on this topic alright now real quick too even though I just cleared that up that I don't have a problem with Alan Roberts before anybody starts bombarding me with the fat jokes and listen bucko I've been hitting the gym like a boss I try to do about at least two miles a day or so I'm also vegetarian and I'm trying to watch what I eat and all that stuff but anyways Alan Roberts if you ever watched this you want to hook it up with some fitness tips hit me up brother alright so anyways let's talk about his channel every day every damn day fitness all right so yeah basically you know his expertise Alan's expertise is in fitness you know you don't really need to do too much research like look at this dude like dude can bench press me all right but anyways fitness is a great topic you know on youtube it's a great topic on instagram he has like 35 000 on instagram as well but he's done something very interesting in order to teach people about the importance of living a physically healthy lifestyle which could also help your mental health as well in order to do that what Alan Roberts often does is he takes mainstream examples whether it's youtubers like boogie2988 I think he's also made some videos on amberlyn reid he's also used people like tass holiday and he uses that as an example and it gives his thoughts and opinions in order to teach the audience about that but he doesn't just take examples of people who he feels are doing things wrong but he also finds people who are doing things right so he finds mainstream examples of people who are doing the physical health thing and he tries to teach the audience about that and it's working I believe he has almost 200 000 subscribers and some of you watching this video you're like dang chris that sounds really familiar somebody taking mainstream examples and using that as a way to educate people about some sort of health topic all right so for those of you who don't know um my channel has been deemed controversial by some because I talk about mental health and something that I found was something that Alan Roberts found as well is when we have examples going on in the mainstream one way to get traction on youtube and you know to get your videos out there is to use mainstream examples when we're talking about things right so whereas he's talking about physical health I'm talking about mental health right and here's the thing like this isn't a video to be but but but what about this guy no no no no no no no no like I love what Alan Roberts is doing like because that's the type of learner I am and I know a lot of other people are that type of learner as well you need some example that you could relate to in order to kind of soak this in but like I said at the beginning of this video like I just kind of want to talk to you guys like what I really think is like with all the backlash that I've received in the past is as I feel it shows you like how much of a mental health stigma is still out there right like we have no problem on a regular basis and this has been going on forever right like look at magazine covers and everything like that we have no problem talking about people's physical health we have no problem talking about people's physical appearance but the second you talk about mental health that's when things get weird right and I just think that's interesting because one of my goals in life and I might have just uh uh attacked it too soon was I want to be able to talk about mental health just as easily as we talk about physical health right now like I said in the intro there's some people who have a problem with what Alan Roberts is doing but I don't really see a problem with that anything that's put out there publicly is up to discuss like I I just watched a few of his videos and I can tell that he's not coming from a place of malice it's a place of concern whether it's the people he's referencing in the video or the audience as a whole he's not saying like this is a terrible person this is a bad person but he knows the influence that people have right for example like what I'm saying is like I have a platform I have influence maybe hypothetically Alan made a video about me like I'm on this platform so if I was here saying like oh I'm healthy and here's what I eat and stuff like that like he would say yo what that dude's doing is a bad example and I can't really argue with that right so I think it's important that we talk about behaviors and everything to try to see what we could do to improve our own mental health as well and this isn't something that is specific to Alan Roberts either so my beautiful girlfriend Tristan she actually got me into a channel um Abby Sharp all right so Abby Sharp her expertise is in uh uh like physical health as well I believe she's a dietitian and Tristan and I will watch videos about like she kind of analyzes like what I eat in a day videos like we were just watching one the other day when she analyzed um a Gabby Hannah video but anyway she comes in there and just talks like is this healthy or is this unhealthy is this good or is this bad like I think that I don't know that's an excellent way to teach and maybe that's just the way I learn maybe that's the way some of you learn as well now getting back to the topic so Alan Roberts his expertise is in physical health but in his most recent boogie 2988 video he said this honestly I just think he should get inpatient therapy boogie needs serious intensive psychiatric help along with physical help to help him lose weight lose the rest of the weight and deal with his issues because the man has problems he does so this is not meant to demean or be mean to him uh I even said to him at the end of the long ridiculous childlike rant in my instagram dms um that I would not make any more videos about him if he didn't say anything dangerous to his audience now his his niche is physical health so some people would say he has no right to comment on the mental health of boogie 2988 I'm gonna link that video down below if you want to get the full context um because I somewhat agree and disagree with what he's saying I referenced it in my last video because boogie is very open about his mental health and his struggles and everything so but I understand Alan Roberts concern right much like myself and much like other creators our concern is for the the larger group of people right so he's speaking his opinion about boogie talking about these things very publicly because he's thinking about how it might affect somebody so I don't think that he should not talk about that subject just because he is not a mental health expert he has every right to that opinion because again anything that any of us put out publicly I feel are up to be discussed publicly by others you know what I mean so the last thing I'll talk about is one thing that I look at when I look at you know these fitness channels and everything like that um I absolutely agree like one of the reasons I'm going to the gym and everything and trying to eat a little bit better is because physical health matters right but I actually used to be like about 200 pounds lighter and I was miserable I was depressed like back in high school I was a triathlete I was very physically active I lifted weights I was actually pretty strong if you could believe that but anyways I was miserable I was depressed so something that I try to remind people is like yeah make sure you get your physical health in check like you absolutely should but just know that it is not going to guarantee happiness and the reason I say that and caution people about that is because some people like oh if I could just lose X amount of pounds then I'll be happy or oh if my butt was just a little bit more tone then I would be happy right if my biceps were just this certain diameter then I would be happy right and this is a lie that our brain tells us like almost in the same vein as if I only had this much money then I would be happy so the only thing that I try to remind people is physical health and mental health are just as important like one of the reasons I started going back to the gym recently is for my mental health I know I know the mental health benefits of going to the gym getting that cardio in all right raising that that heart rate and releasing like the endorphins and everything like that and it's helped out a lot I've discussed this on my podcast a bit so just keep that in mind that physical health and mental health like it shouldn't be one or another it should absolutely be both all right but anyways let me know down in the comments below what your thoughts are on this subject like do you think like there's kind of a double standard kind of like I'm talking about like why is it okay to talk about physical health but not mental health what are your thoughts what are your opinions on that all right but anyways that's all I got for this video if you like this video please give it a thumbs up if you're new make sure you subscribe and ring that notification bell and a huge huge thank you to everybody supporting the channel around patreon you're all amazing and a thank you to everybody who supports the channel another way like buying my books and all sorts of stuff yeah and if you want to learn more about 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