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Get ON My Internets! Praise For Positive Online Influences & Personalities

Thumbs Up For These Peeps, Thumbs Down 4 GOMI!

I do not own the rights to pictures of The Fonz from Happy Days. Would be funny if I did though right!
Please don't sue me Henry Winkler, that would not make for very HAPPY DAYS for me! :p

If you aren't familiar with Get Off My Internets (GOMI), it's pretty much a bunch of gossipy haters that like to criticize the posts, videos, and websites of some of the internet's biggest personalities. They seem to GET OFF on tearing people down and criticizing their hard work. I like accountability and all, but this website is really just pretty pathetic when it comes right down to it. I don't know what came first, this website or Gossip Girl (I've only seen 2.4 episodes I swear), but it seems kind of similar. I'm not on the site at all to my knowledge, maybe because I'm a dude or just am not nearly popular enough at this point, but the negativity of this site really got me thinking. If I had the energy and time, I'd make a ripoff site called Get ON My Internets featuring helpful, positive, honest, and enthusiastic social media influencers and ballin bloggers instead of being one that cuts down everyone in seething jealousy and insecurity.

So I don't have the time and effort to make a whole site (yet) and of course don't want to deal with any legal backlash, but I will start a new series today highlighting some of my favorite POSITIVE and healthy internet personalities! Am I mentioning people I know? Well yeah, you gotta write about what you know about, and who you follow. I'm not going to write about people I don't know anything about, that would be something GOMI would do! Am I missing tons of inspiring and amazing people? Of course! That's why I will write follow-ups and try to get to know people better and follow new personalities to see what they have to offer. These people will help you to reach your fitness goals! So here's my first batch of people that I WANT ON MY INTERNETS! (in no particular order)

1) ShakeLightly's Brandon Collingwood:
Why am I starting with Brandon? Because I think he's one of the biggest hidden gems in fitness, YouTube, and comedy. He's a personal trainer / comedian out of California with a pretty great sense of humor, a very strong and genuine desire to help people, and he's jacked as hell! He's helped and entertained so many people, but he's also very modest and self-deprecating, so I have to be the promotional jackass to put his great stuff out there! He has over 2 million YouTube views and some interesting and consistent content yet I rarely hear anyone talking about him. I hope that changes in short time, he definitely deserves it. You should check his stuff out for yourself!

2) Brooklyn Fit Chick
An epic blogger, vlogger, fitness instructor and media guru. From the concrete jungle where dreams are made of (there's nothing you can't do). This Fit Chick has tons of great posts on workouts, fitness media, lifestyle, and pop culture. Delicious and nutritious stuff for your brain! Check out her site!! NO SLEEP TIL BROOKLYN!

3) Scooby's Workshop
Scooby's Workshop on YouTube is one of the first workout channels online and he's got 200 MILLION views to show for it! He's pretty much the father of YouTube Fitness for Men, and puts out some great videos and articles to help beginners and pretty much anyone get in great workouts in their home or on the go. He's pretty damn helpful and has a great attitude towards helping others while not being about profit margins.

4) Jack Nauss of Choose Fitness:
Start with a YouTube/Fitness hidden gem, and I'll end with another! Jack Nauss is 18 years old and he's got over 200 YouTube Fitness videos, over 25k subscribers, and over a million views! He's a freak of a natural bodybuilder, a hard worker, and is always very supportive and helpful to anyone who communicates with him online. If he keeps up his work ethic, this guy could be the next fitness icon! If you have a question, especially on youth fitness or teen bodybuilding (or youth entrepreneurship in my opinion), this is the guy to ask.

More posts like this to come down the road! I apologize for missing you in the first batch, time to go back to watching Gossip Girl...I mean doing manly things! Cars, Bench Press, Babes, and so forth.

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Proud To Be Steroid Free!

Hey Frugal Fitness Fans! Thanks for checking out my site, hope you find some good stuff here that can help you save a ton of money while getting you in the best shape of your life! Now if you've been following my blog and videos, you know that I've made some mistakes and done some things I'm not proud of in my life. In many areas, especially in the past, I've tried to take shortcuts and gain any advantages possible. I've made as many mistakes as anyone, and don't look down on anyone for making them as long as they learn from them. But there is one thing I am very proud to say I've never done: Steroids, HGH, Clenbuterol, Andro, other Pro-Hormones, or any other dangerous and illegal performance enhancing drug. Throughout athletics and an already somewhat lengthy career in Fitness, I'm proud to hang my hat on the fact that I've been 100% Natural the whole time and plan to stay that way for life.

Why wouldn't I take these powerful drugs that could give me a huge advantage in the fitness industry that I'm in? Oh I could go on for hours. I won't bore you too much with all the health risks such as liver failure, heart failure, hormonal imbalances, roid rage, acne, male-patterned baldness (don't need any help in that area! haha), stretch marks, psychological problems, etc. Most of us already know all of that stuff. But here are some other reasons why I've never engaged in such garbage (some are more important than others, but reasons nonetheless!):
-It's not healthy, and I try to promote HEALTH and LONGEVITY as well as improved performance and physique
-I have enough problems and obstacles to overcome without dealing with the short and long-term risks
-It has very severe & dangerous psychological risks, especially combined w/ medication, medical conditions, or alcohol
-I don't ever recommend any client, family, or friend take any of these substances and I don't like being a hypocrite
-It is illegal and you can get in enormous trouble for using or dealing
-You'll look like an idiot with tons of acne and stretch marks
-I'm short, and already pretty bulky for my height, if I took HGH or testosterone I'd look like an Umpa Lumpa!
-I want to be a good role model for friends, family, clients, readers, and viewers.
-While I love Arnold Schwarzenegger, many other Pro Bodybuilders, and some other Pro Wrestlers / Athletes, that doesn't mean I agree with everything they do, especially when it comes to steroids and other drug use.
-Overall, I don't think the risk/reward ratio makes any sense for 99.999% of people out there, especially myself

This is what a steroid user looks like. No Thanks!

Over the years it's been pretty interesting how many times I've been accused of being a steroid user by people that just don't know what they are talking about. Some people joke about it, but others are very serious. Yes I am strong and muscular, but not freakishly so. Yes I am somewhat lean and have gotten very lean at times, but not ridiculously so. To an educated individual, I am not even a border-line candidate for the the label of "Juicer" as I'm not really that ripped or muscular compared to other natural bodybuilders or fitness models. Sometimes I just have to laugh when someone asks if I took/take steroids but other times I feel it demeans and attempts to besmirch the physical training and nutrition I've engaged in since I was 7 years old. I try just to laugh it off but occasionally it gets to me. Luckily, anyone that actually knows anything about bodybuilding or steroids would take one look at me and know that I've never used in my life. It's pretty easy to guess if someone has used or is using steroids, there is not usually a grey area or big shadow of a doubt, especially in bodybuilding.

My First All-Natural Bodybuilding Competition 2007 Age 21

So you can accuse me of "Juicing" or whatever you feel like, I'm just going to laugh more and more and let it bother me less and less. I make mistakes every day but taking illegal performance enhancing drugs is just not one of them and at least I can be proud of that. I hope you will all stay natural or consider going back to natural if you aren't already and avoid the health and legal risks.

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Beware Of Online Meadheads!

WTF?! N00B / MEATHEAD ALERT!!!

These monkeys deserve some messed up bananas

Snookiesaurus?

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- Why CrossFit Is Unhealthy

- Hang On For Health: Grip Training Workouts

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Bench Press Monkeys & YouTube Trolls

If you want to find some fantastic and impressive bench press videos, look no further than YouTube. If you want to find some extremely jealous, critical, and pathetic commentators (also known as trolls), you also need not look further than YouTube. I've posted a few bench press videos of myself and my training partner lifting close to our personal bests over the past year or so. We lift pretty heavy weight and use pretty solid form, especially compared with some of the goons that you see on YouTube that use horrendous form or are wrapped up from head to toe (which is not "raw" powerlifting and can add up to 40% more weight to your lifts). While I am proud of the weight we've both lifted, I have never made any claim that I am the biggest and baddest bench press beast in all the land. In fact, I think barbell bench is one of the least beneficial exercises in my workout program these days.

But judging from the comments you can see on my videos, and pretty much any other bench press video out there, people like to tout their bench press achievements (real or fake) as their life's biggest accomplishment. "Whadda ya Bench?" is the big question in and out of the gym even these days. It's not worth giving these n00bs and their comments a second thought, but I do find them pretty humorous and sometimes downright sad. I always ask the critics to show me their videos of their incredible bench press accomplishments that they brag about so openly, but they never manage to materialize! Very strange...