The Golden One - Dad Bod Trend and Fitness Fanatics

00:00:00.040 Greetings you proud sons of Makedon! Today I want to discuss the dad bod trend that has been

00:00:23.280 requested quite a few times by you all so here it goes. Let me first of all elaborate a bit

00:00:29.680 on you know with trends and everything the pendulum always swings so we had a

00:00:35.380 good few years of fitness frenzy as it were and now it turns back to not caring

00:00:41.020 about fitness so people want to be a bit unique and rebellious and go against the

00:00:44.620 trend so now the the the mainstream thing has been to be into fitness and now

00:00:49.780 they rebel and go against it. But that's for another topic now I want to talk

00:00:55.960 about the dad bod per se and the articles I've seen about it mainly elaborates on

00:01:01.540 you know what women find this attractive or this is how we're gonna look to be 0.90

00:01:05.800 attracted to the ladies during the summer and let me elaborate a bit on that

00:01:11.740 regarding lifting for women like what you have to realize like no I'm not gonna 1.00

00:01:17.200 sit here and say like oh I never care about women what they think etc obviously 0.98

00:01:20.960 I want to look good for my girl and be well trained well mannered well dressed

00:01:25.760 for her but to think that any guy who is serious about reaching physical

00:01:31.460 perfection is doing it to appease the ladies that's that's absurd and laughable 0.77

00:01:37.680 and I'm sorry girls but that's just the way it is like you don't have a guy who's

00:01:41.960 been in the gym for more than a year who is still training to appease ladies 0.97

00:01:45.380 perhaps some guys go into the gym and when they're young with a mindset like okay cool I'm

00:01:50.700 gonna have a bit of a bigger gonch or abs or anything like that but when you when

00:01:57.540 you're into it you you don't really think about that it's not the case that I've 0.98

00:02:01.140 ever gone into the gym like okay for a meeting I'm gonna be a fucking beast in the 0.98

00:02:06.960 gym I'm gonna deadlift hard and heavy like I'm not gonna do that to think like oh 0.97

00:02:11.400 now girls will find me attractive like that's that's absurd and I think I speak

00:02:17.340 for the vast majority of guys who've been in gym for more than a year or so so

00:02:22.560 for me when I hear those sort of arguments like this is what women like this is 1.00

00:02:26.880 what is attractive and sexy like it's it's nothing to do with that like I don't

00:02:32.580 try to reach physical perfection because of that just as I don't read books to

00:02:38.180 appease ladies I'm trying to reach mental perfection and physical perfection 0.67

00:02:41.940 awesome book by the way let's talk a bit about merits of the dad bod trend and like

00:02:47.400 obviously yeah it isn't sexy to be a fanatic it isn't but it can be very useful to be a

00:02:54.480 fanatic for a certain period of your life I had my fitness fanatic period like two years

00:02:59.800 ago and good god I was shredded back then and I'm I'm thankful for that I had that time in my life

00:03:12.480 where I was you know ultra fanatic with everything I didn't leave anything to chance but now two years

00:03:18.700 later I'm a bit more relaxed because I know where to focus what to focus on and what not to fuss too much

00:03:25.580 about so for me like now I can have a bottle of wine with my girl I can have a rulletårta with my

00:03:32.380 boys and that's a Swedish pastry it's all about timing it and making it sustainable can I have a

00:03:38.360 bottle of wine with my girl every night if I'm having a photo shoot in three weeks no I cannot

00:03:43.740 can I have it once every month or twice every month yeah I can can I have five rulletourtas daily

00:03:51.920 with my boys as pre-workout no perhaps not that would you know not leave that much room for other

00:03:58.720 better foods for me to indulge in can I have it during the Saturday pre-workout watching a

00:04:05.580 pre-workout film yeah definitely it will grant me you know some good good pomp in my body

00:04:10.880 so you tend to when you when you have been a fanatic when you've been there you know what was really

00:04:19.380 important and what was not important so for me right now I'm you know quite quite content quite

00:04:24.080 happy I'm cutting right now but aren't really affected mentally by it because I know where to

00:04:30.020 put the focus and the focus is not in obsessing in every little detail so to conclude that thought

00:04:37.180 like I do genuinely believe that you should have a fanatic period but then you also have to know when

00:04:42.160 you leave it so you don't always like year round go and obsess overly much about some something such as

00:04:50.720 counting every little macro here and eating ultra clean all the time like make it it might sound gay 0.77

00:04:57.640 but balance in life is actually good and you should utilize more of it and know what counts and what not

00:05:04.500 counts and what I would like to say to more you know to the general population like you should train in

00:05:10.380 the gym you should lift weights that's only positive but just because you lift weights and

00:05:15.380 go into the gym doesn't mean that you need to be a fanatic when it comes to your diet but like just

00:05:21.880 go into the gym you don't have to embrace the whole lifestyle you will get better results by embracing the

00:05:26.880 whole lifestyle and as I said if you're really serious if you're a younger guy listening to this like 0.98

00:05:31.640 in your early 20s or something have that fanatic period do it by all means I've learned so fucking 0.80

00:05:36.960 much during my fanatic period you know with mind games hunger control how to motivate yourself

00:05:42.680 everything like that so for me it's brilliant but if you're just a regular guy in your 30s like and

00:05:49.280 don't aspire to have the sickest physique possible then just go into the gym but then if you want to

00:05:54.380 have a beer with your boys during the evening yeah sure fine do it and lastly I can also see why it

00:05:59.160 would be attractive for a lot of people to adopt a more um lazy attitude to stuff because it's you know 0.96

00:06:05.320 fun to drink beer and eat um eat a lot of shit as it were and also obviously more attractive to

00:06:11.140 women that you don't overly obsess of everything all the time you know to have a bit more chill 1.00

00:06:16.500 attitude to life but then again like I have a really chill attitude to life right now I just have to pick

00:06:21.960 my moments so um so obviously everyone knows that I can't you know binge every day but I can fit in my

00:06:28.700 little taut or my bottle of wine every now and then so it becomes a balanced life but then to

00:06:33.460 to say a few final words like obviously I don't ever condone of celebrating decadent body ideals

00:06:39.920 I think every young man and woman should strive for physical perfection because you learn a lot

00:06:45.680 along the way much more can be said about a topic but I just wanted to make this video really quick

00:06:50.680 like right now and who am I I'm the proud son of Sweden xxo xxo

The Golden One - May 06, 2015

Dad Bod Trend and Fitness Fanatics

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