 First question is from a pal 683 What are some of the craziest fitness myths that you've heard from clients? Oh, I got one. Yeah. Yeah, I do I got one that won't go away. So I so I'll go let me go first. So I read this app This was like a thing for a minute It was like a year or two where this kind of became a thing. So I'll strain this lady First time I heard about it and she goes. I'm my friend lost I don't know how much weight 30 pounds or whatever doing this new diet called the HCG diet Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Remember when this was a thing. This is still a thing. Yeah, so I was like HCG died I had a sister-in-law who just did this like a couple years ago still. Yes, okay So I'm my hundred calories and they run you on HCG. Well, let me get let me get it go through this So she goes HCG so I'm like HCG I'm like you mean human Chironic gonna add a trope in or whatever that's like the human hormone women produce it when they're pregnant It's what birth, you know birth the whatever P sticks or whatever pick up and right If you give it to a man it boost testosterone So athletes will take it sometimes to come off of testosterone or whatever So I'm like, is it this it can't be that like I don't think they could prescribe that for diet purposes or whatever Well, sure enough. That's what it was and she says the HCG makes the makes women lose so much weight or whatever So she's like should I do it? I'm like, okay, they're gonna inject you with this hormone or this precursor I don't think it's a good idea. Definitely not doesn't sound like a good idea. Let me look at the whole plan So she's bringing me the plan. It's 500 calories a day Yeah, 500 calories a day and then they inject you with the HTT. I look here's a deal if you're on 500 calories a day They can inject you with anything And you'll lose weight. It doesn't matter what it is. They can inject you I could put you on the you know the vitamin B12 diet I could put you on anything I inject you with 500 calories you lose weight So I tried to talk to her about this and said look you're gonna really hammer your metabolism You're gonna end up losing a lot of muscle and there's no way you can eat 500 calories to maintain So when you go back you're gonna gain the weight back. She didn't want to listen to me She ended up doing it and I had a lot of damage control to do with her afterwards But it was a thing there for a second. I'm surprised they're still doing it Yeah, no, it's still a thing I might I said my sister-in-law was just a couple maybe two or three years now that She came to me and she was already in the middle of it like she was dropping weight We're all like a family event and everyone's like, oh, you look great. How do you do it? She's like, oh, my doctor's got me on this HCG diet I'm like, and of course my pick up what explained to me same thing. She explains it to me That was actually the first I had heard of it. So you heard of it way before I did And she gained the weight back. She of course and and more so and I mean I she was already in the middle of it So I couldn't get her to stop and of course a doctor told her so, you know, who's you know, her part That makes me yeah, yeah, doctor tells her so of course I'm not gonna win this argument, but I'm explaining to her I was like, you know, sis do you really think that you're gonna eat 500 calories for the rest of your life? No, no, I just want to get down to this way. That's what they all say, right? Yeah, just want to get down to this way and then and then figure out from there It's like no, that's not how your metabolism works So your metabolism will screw me up and then we'll figure it out from there That's like what you're doing right now is you're gonna get used to eating 500 calories And then when you go back to normal life and especially this family I'm like we drink and eat and we do all these festivities all the time like there's no way I mean you crush you crush your weekly intake in in one weekend with the with this family I was like, there's no way you can sustain off this. So yeah, I know she She ended up putting it all back on so that's a terrible one Here's another one that and I still see this. This is really popular still is these body wraps Oh, right The claims that they make the amount of weight and calories it burns and everything and it's really just water weight, right? And I didn't know exactly. It's hilarious. I mean, it's like they wrap you like saran wrap your entire body Yeah, and they sit you on like a massage table and you know I think you sit on there for like a good solid hour or whatever put like a heat suit like Yeah, they wrap you in like had a few clients like a cocoon and and and you know, it's funny because You know, it's one of those things. This is like how it's a temporary like illusion. Yeah, exactly. That's definitely look exactly That's why it's like it's it's how easily we are manipulated and why things that people can feel or see We're so easily sold on right away because if you do go, you know completely suffocate your body for an hour and heated heated up like super hot and sweat, you know Three pounds or five pounds of water out of you and then you get up and you look at yourself in the mirror Yeah, you're gonna see you're gonna look smaller You know if your clothes will feel but all you've done is just like Leaked out a bunch of water weight as soon as you go pound a gallon of water at one point You're gonna put it all right back on and so very temporary Yeah, and I mean they charge big money and the claims that they make for how many calories that you're burning in and I was Get the hell out of here. Yeah another one is even just liposuction, you know I remember as a trainer. I was I was young. I was 18 maybe 1819 and I was doing this body fat test on this woman and Back in those days actually it was the same kind of body fat tests. We did later on so it was like bicep tricep Sub-scapula super supra iliac crest though. So those are the four points that you do with the caliper test, right? So the bicep tricep that's easy to know where that is The supra iliac crest that's right above the hip and then sub-scapulates below the shoulder blade So you test all these points and I remember this woman came in and she she was overweight And so she did a free body fat test with me and I tested her bicep fold and then I went to her tricep fold It was very strange because she had more fat on her bicep than she did our tricep and that never happens You store more in your tricep, especially for a woman and here I am as a kid I'm 18 years old and I did this and I was like this is very weird and her arm looks strange She was overweight, but the tricep was laying on the bicep So I sat her down and we start talking I said have you ever had liposuction and she looked at me like I was some kind of wizard How did you know I said while I tested your tricep and your tricep fold was less than your bicep It looks to me like you got fat sucked out of your tricep and when you went and gained the weight back You don't lose the ability to store body fat. You just store it in other places now So then when ends up happening is you store body fat and now you have this weird fat Storage on your body because it doesn't store it like it naturally would And she's like no that that's what I mean people that have Sawed out liposuction hate to hear this conversation, but I would tell I'm like I'd seen enough clients do it so much I'm like honestly I you look better 30 pounds overweight Normal fat naturally balanced away your body genetically is made and designed to store body fat Then to lipo and then put 30 30 pounds on the body It was the same a sort of a thing like I used to train a bit of obese clients Like that would come in with a stomach staple and that was their their answer to you know shedding an extreme amount of weight because that was I mean obviously that was the big pressing issue was like We got to get this weight off. And so the doctor would sell them on You know being able to staple and like shrink the size of their stomach. They could only fit so much in there They could eat whatever they wanted so it just seems like, you know, well, I just get full So I'm gonna be good and then this is you know, I'm gonna live my life from then on and I'm gonna keep shrinking and You know and the weight definitely came off and it all went that direction And I'm just like trying to tell them to you know be be reasonable about this I think about building muscle think about long-term behaviors and habits and things like that inevitably, you know Most of them that I've stayed in contact with have gained in spite of the the size of their stomach or had stretched the stomach back to To its original size. Yeah, the worst one that I've ever seen though The worst was the tube that was attached to the stomach We talked about that when we first started my mom that it's attached to the stomach And it comes out of your body and you literally eat and then you go and empty your stomach into the toilet Yeah, it's bulimia. Yeah, it's bulimia. You're just not throwing it up You're putting it through medical bulimia crazy. Yeah