 I'm gonna do something different in this video and I'm gonna talk about bigorexia also known as male body dysmorphia I feel like this video is gonna be very resourceful for a lot of guys out there because there's simply enough resources for males out there in regards to this problem now Females they have a lot of resources. They have a lot of support groups for female body dysmorphia They know where to go to they know how to approach it But guys it's something kind of like the pink elephant in the room That no one discusses so I'm gonna talk about it right now and the reason this has been brought up to my attention is because a YouTube fitness celebrity rich piano recently passed away and this guy was Someone who was self-proclaimed a sufferer or bigorexia. So it's not just a small problem It's a widespread from my seat all the time basically bigorexia is generally one guys into fitness, right? He goes to the gym. He gets fit He develops a good body, but he's never big enough or he never looks good enough He's constantly insecure about how he looks he wants to get his shoulders just right He wants to get his calves just right his quads just right All these things these small Selling nuances that most people won't be able to pick up with they give him a huge sense of insecurity especially the calves for a lot of guys they give guys insecurities and I Blame social media and Photoshop and a lot of these other Fitness models that are in the scene because they've created this false image that guys now try to Adhere to in the same way that females have fed false images of Picture-perfect girls on the cover of magazines with no pimples. No no blemishes Just perfect Photoshop guys are being fed the same thing But in regards to their body you watch YouTube videos you watch his Instagram videos of these guys with these insane insane proportions insane muscle mass incredibly low body fat and a lot of guys see that as a goal to reach you they see that Idealist Greek God Physique as a goal to aspire to now. There's nothing wrong with that But you have to still have a realistic approach when you're going about this You have to understand that a lot of these images that you're being fed are not authentic A lot of these guys are just seeing on Instagram feed to no look like that year-round a lot of these guys Do not even look at that a lot of them use Photoshop a lot of them use steroids and claim to be natural So you have to separate Reality from imagination and see what you can do now. I've personally experienced this myself I've been going to the gym for about five years and a half now. I started off as a skinny kid You know, I hated Being called skinny by all these girls people always call me skinny really made me insecure So I went to the gym. I buffed up and got bigger now I was a stage. I was about 200 pounds or 93 kilos and I was pretty big but the thing is I still felt small. I still felt like I wasn't big enough I need to get bigger shoulders. I need to get bigger delts and this kept going on Got extreme where I'd be doing these, you know ridiculous workouts I'll be doing the meal prep all trying to catch an illusion something that wasn't there This goes this false ideal that guys have been fed, right? Eventually I snapped out of it, especially with the store season thing the store season concept I'm always talking about learning to see what's in your control and what's not in your control now for a large Percentage of us. We do not have the genetics to come anywhere close to these guys that we idolize So you need to come to terms with that and see what is in your control. You need to learn to lift for yourself to Realize what's reasonable for yourself and to aspire to reach that goal to realize what body fat percentage is safe for you or Makes you feel the best and to go for that to realize what amount of muscle makes you feel good and to maintain that Don't get swayed away by people and their opinions. Don't try to reach goals that under listing don't try to look like the movie characters because Even those guys don't look like that So it's all about learning about what's in your control and learning to lift for yourself Go to the gym and set your goals set your goals and hit them and it should be a healthy thing It shouldn't lead to these negative mindsets. So Bigorexia sucks ass and don't fall for it. Don't fall for it Lift for yourself look for your body and the experience be much more enjoyable Hey guys, I hope you get some value of that. Peace