Episode 57 of The Muscle Engineer Podcast is another Sustainable Shittalking episode. In this one, we discuss fitness professionals turning into dating “experts”, pick-up artists and how much our girlfriends being into fitness matters to us.

1:20 Why do fitness professionals become business and dating coaches?

5:30​ Insecurities about physical traits and what matters most in dating

13:13 Why the pickup industry is so cringy

20:25​ Libido talk and more on the pickup industry

32:55​ Our opinions on how much our girlfriends being into fitness matters to us

Recommended resources for the week:

https://youtu.be/YKY5zSuny9s

https://youtu.be/REjUkEj1O_0

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Episode 56 of The Muscle Engineer Podcast is another Sustainable Shittalking episode. In this one, we get into a variety of subjects related to personal values, morality, the arbitrary glorification of “natural” status and more.

3:08​ Lazar Angelov's recent video on his natural status

5:55​ Abel’s rant on “Natty or not “ callouts

10:14​ The ethics of “natty or not” videos

17:04​ Discussing the ethics of public callouts

22:35​ Ridiculous ways of assessing someone's natural status

28:37​ Incentives for gear use in different sports

36:35​ Would we use gear? And why do people consider using it?

51:25​ The cognitive dissonance of not wanting to use testosterone, but looking for “natural” test boosters

56:10  The drawbacks of admitting using PED’s as a coach or influencer

1:07:42​ Why we value "natural" things more than artificially enhanced things

1:20:49​ My recommended resource for the week

Recommended resource for the week:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2106476/

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Episode 55 of The Muscle Engineer Podcast is another segment that I co-host with Ábel Csabai, that I’m calling Sustainable Shittalking, until we come up with a better name. Suggestions welcome.

In this episode we covered:

0:00​ Abel’s diet update and the impact of tiredness / lack of sleep on cravings

8:40​ Abel reflecting on a memory that stuck with him

11:15​ Why “knowledge isn’t the answer”

18:35​ My take on the concept of “metabolically healthy obesity”

39:20​ Why losing weight after becoming obese is so hard

42:40​ Giving fitness advice to loved ones and my personal struggle with this

1:12:50​ Recommended resources for the week

References:

https://academic.oup.com/eurjpc/advance-article/doi/10.1093/eurjpc/zwaa151/6105192

Recommended resources:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11382384/

https://youtu.be/1rpFEVGJjtA

If you want to apply for online coaching, email me:

andreiszotak@gmail.com

Say “Hi” on social media:

https://www.instagram.com/szotaktme/

https://www.facebook.com/szotaktme

https://www.facebook.com/szotakandras

You can find Ábel at:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzGVKv513I6Zb0u3mLsL_7w

https://www.instagram.com/ssdabel

https://www.facebook.com/groups/sustainableselfdevelopment/

Get all the previous podcast episodes:

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