It is okay for something to die.

Here is a little overview of the current most popular fitness influencers, and what you should know about them before listening to anything they say.

The Team

Alexander Bromley

Bro Strongman

My favourite at the moment. Unfortunately the last video contains AI generated animations which I’m not fond of.

Mike Israetel

Science Based Mentally Challenged

Milo Wolf

Science Based Bootlicker

Greg Doucette

Bro Supplement Peddler

Drug dealer with a loud mouth. Has an absolutely insane video editor.

His videos are 90% drama with some workout advice sprinkled on top. His workout advice is extrememly basic and generally good.

Do not listen to him concerning supplements, even if everything he sold worked, he is still very much in the game of peddling turk (which has never shown any efficacy).

Jeff Nippard

Science Based

Lylo

Science Based

Jeff Cavalier

Science Based

Used to be good, but fell down the trap of chasing relevancy. Probably natural at some point, but hard to believe that one can retain 6% body fat year long at 50.

The Conclusion

… because most writing during most ages was terrible, but the only surviving and known pieces from the past are those which stood the test of time.

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This was the conclusion I got to. This article is about the journey how I got there.

These are my notes on two videos by the writer Hilary Layne: Modern Heroes are Weak and Boring and Modern Villains are Pitiful and Impotent.

Both issues stem from the lack of objective morality in the worlds created by modern writers.

The concepts of Good and Evil in modern literature are based on how it makes the reader/writer feel. This makes them extremely malleable and ultimately meaningles.

Readers prefer anti-heroes because they are closer to the classical definition of a hero: “The main male protagonist of the piece”. Anti-heroes are closer to objective morality as they can act, whereas modern heroes can’t.

Finally some good new has come out of the AI world.

If you thought piping curl to shell was bad, the AI crowd has decided to turn the knob to 11.

Thanks to the likes of Openclaw¹, we will soon be able to hack anything and everything, the way 90’s movies convinced us we could.

And we will be able to do it basking in bespoke vibecoded UIs, as Operation Swordfish has intended.

I started lifting 10 years ago using the Starting Strength 5x5 iOS app¹. I would still recommend it for beginners.

Then when I switched programs to 6 day Push/Pull/Legs ², I switched to a paper notepad with just handwritten weights and reps like so:

Since my progression solely depended on the last time and the goal was to do “moar”, with a 6 day split it was easy, just flip 3 pages before and compare.

Eventually I started using multiple gyms, and didn’t have the notebook with me, so I switched to a long note in the Notes.app on iOS. There the comparison to previous time was more tedious, one had to scroll up and down.

Naturally I made an app. I started by making it an iOS app, but quickly abandoned that since I realized nobody will ever use it and I do not want to go through the review process.

Then I made it into a progressive web app.

You can find it here: https://apps.yozy.net/swolog/web

Note that I made this app for me. I am sharing it with the world since it is based on many open source contributions. I am licensing it under AGPLv3, but I provide no support, or would answer for any feature requests.