How Physical 100 Exposes The Fitness Industry

Physical 100 exposes the fitness industry highlighting what we believe fitness to be- aesthetic and what it actually is! People from all sporting backgrounds, body builders, strongmen, youtubers like 김강민_Kim Kang min and mma fighter Yoshihiro Akiyama took part in physical challenges testing fitness.

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[sensam]

Your argument that athletes perform better at athletic tasks than people who train for lean & muscular cosmetic appearance is very simple and nearly impossible to disagree with. However, your argument that "athletes are not actually lean" is disingenuous at best and harmful at worst.
Nearly every single sport than primarily involves moving your own body produces VERY lean athletes: triathlon, sprinting, gymnasts, endurance calisthenics, freestyle calisthenics, climbing, kickboxing, etc.

Sports that primarily involve moving foreign objects are the ones that tend to produce less-lean individuals: Strongman, Powerlifting, Olympic Weightlifting, Throwing Sports, etc.

If you want to move a really heavy barbell, by all means be big and don't worry about losing your six pack. But if you want to be good at (strict) dips, pullup, muscle ups; and have a sub 20-min 5k time, you are absolutely going to be better off being around 10%-12% bodyfat as a man, and 20%-22% as a woman.

[BagoGarde]

Bodybuilder (man and women) were on steroids and clearly never trained for performance. They trained for hypertrophy (looks).
Athletes performed better because they trained for functionality. Its a good show to illustrate the idea that fitness is not always based on looks
Some dudes on steroids are very unhealthy due to the steroids they inject and its impact on kidney liver, heart etc..

[Shvabicu]

That's because bodybuilding is not a sport targeting performance. Bodybuilding competitions are pageants. Put an Olympic decathlete in there and he will destroy everyone.

[tjohannam]

I think the first task was already humbling, instructive, and gave many a reality check. 
The task was to hang onto the elevated structure by sheer strength and will, and a lot of jacked men at a higher weight count just dropped like flies into the water beneath within minutes. The people that hung on longer were either mentally strong, or where soldiers and athletes.

[MrRONINDEX]

You got a new subscriber and fan, am a London based boxing coach, we see it all the time, hench bodybuilder types turn up and they barely make it through the warm up

[incognito]

"They keep complimenting the physiques and it's very physique-based instead of actual strength."
That's the point of the show. To find the best physique. Of course they'd base everything around that. And if you had the best physique your strength will show through.

[AirLancer]

I mean, it's not like Yun Sung-bin (2nd in the boulder rolling challenge and favorite to win overall) isn't himself an elite athlete. "Athletes don't look like what's presented in media." Except for all the athletes that do. That's WHY they're presented that way. What you mean is "athletes don't ONLY look like the way they're typically presented in media, " which would be true. Also aren't you basically saying that bodybuilders don't count as athletes when you say stuff like "athletes don't look like this, they're not ripped with six packs"? Plus a lot of those super-ripped, low bodyfat guys that got eliminated...were also elite athletes in their fields (like the fencer for example), so spinning the results as "see this is what a REAL athlete looks like" seems like a really weird direction to take things in.

Apparently the ending was either totally botched or straight up rigged, which is rather deflating too.

[stevieboymkii]

From memory of the first episode, a lot of the people in there were also commenting on the size of some of the torso busts, rather than just how lean they were. That second task really punished teams that built sloppy bridges. Whilst the male wrestler and his team were portrayed as somewhat arrogant, I was personally a little disappointed to see them lose at this stage, mainly as the wrestler himself seemed like one of the individual favourites, being large and strong but also explosive, with his backflips. Then again, he failed in the redemption challenge. The cyclist was almost a dark horse as it felt like he wasn't really mentioned until the last couple of episodes despite being an absolute beast. Sadly there was controversy around the ending and there are reports that the cyclist should have won the competition as a whole. It's true that the fitness industry pushes lean body types, although that seems more for men these days and younger people in the gym will see this. Sportspeople I think won't be particularly affected as they'll be searching for different sources of inspiration.

[seanlikessubaru]

Well, I was gonna tryn be an asshole and downtalk you but youre clearly an athlete that knows what youre talking about. Im glad i shut up, you deserve a large voice and to let young girls everywhere know theyre incredibly capable. Thank you, im humbled!

[ManlettFitness]

does this even need to be a video? Function vs aesthetics are different fitness goals.

[rebekahwalkarden]

Great video! There are people in my CrossFit class (I only just started) who have been going daily for 8-9 years and are very fit but have larger bodies! The two things aren’t as closely related as people think and it was actually quite a shock to me when I started even though I’ve been trying to work on my mindset around this for years. Now I just need to figure out how to tune out the toxic diet talk at the gym

[PhilMcCool]

It's not that the less fit looking people were actually fitter. There was an element of intelligence and strategy in the sand bag and boat games which made it possible for less fit people to win.

[GabeCabrini]

You need more subscribers, your commentary is so fun to listen to. Great editing and tbh I would love to make videos like this someday! Keep it up!

[rachelr]

Watched the show! Definitely agreeing what you

[randkamza]

It would be easier to get your point across if you actually provided correct information.
In the ship pull, the team with the stronger guys and big dude did dominate and win 1st. They won by like 7 minutes. They did not get 2nd like you mention.
Would be great if they represented mote body types. Gabi Dixson would have been very formidable against the bigger guys in a strength event. Just Gabi is so elite I don't think their is a Korean female equivalent of her.

[catchingfeelings]

No no, the body builder didn't think he would do well. He actually said himself that he doesn't want to do it but since his team didn't have anyone to do it so he was forcefuflly do it. And the Bigger guy with less muscle definition actually lifted cars before in his early careers with deadlifting competition. He was 100% sure he was going to win.

Please also look into the scandals too, in the final quest for the two finalist. Haw min, the cyclist, was supposed to win. The result was rigged with technical difficulties with the production team. Not to mention when Jin Young rope's get oiled but Hae min's doesn't? It really shows why he was pulling harder

[aloysiuspendergast]

Agree with some of what you said. However, you seemed to have concluded that low BF athletes don’t do well. I think both can do well, just not the pure bodybuilders

[OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOq]

Our body is designed to run long distances, and for throwing objects with a lot force and precision.
Would have liked to seen a race challenge of 4 miles and one where they throw a baseball to measure speed and accuracy.

[snusnu]

But then Season 2 happened, and undermines your point.

**Spoilers**

The 2 men that made it to the final have the bodies of male fitness models. The guy that won could easily be on the cover of men's fitness, without doing any preparation.

The woman who did the best was a bodybuilder, and she did phenomenal in both the Maze and Cart pushing challenges, to the point the men were astonished (and so was I).

(Also, in Season 1 Yun/Ironman was an incredible athelete who looked like a near stage ready bodybuilder, and only lost to the cyclist due to his superior endurance who it seems - due to being screwed by the producers - should have won the finale.


As Sensam6155's comment points out, when it comes to specific sports and weight classes there are lean or healthy bodyfat level bodies; Track, Some field sports (Triple and Long Jump), Combat sports below the heavyweight division, Olympic weightlifting below the heavyweight division, Swimming and gymnastics.

[stevensantos]

I just found Physical 100 on Netflix, starting with season 2, and I noticed what you said here in the cage matches. All the athletes had a little chub abound their midsection and blew the vanity muscles out of the ring every time.