What is going on, everyone? Welcome to another episode of the fit, healthy, and most of all happy podcast. I'm your coach and host Josh here with. His co-host and co-coach, KG, and I'm in the house. We got a really fun episode for you. You know, Kyle was scrolling on that IG and he was sitting there and he just went, oh, there's so much nonsense here. And I was like, Kyle, come on, man.

And this is like when he was looking at people were not following. You know, obviously we follow a really good community, but he was looking at the suggested. And it really just got him frustrated. I had to calm him down. We had to let him go for a little run around the block. And he was just livid right i'm like call call let's just take it out on the podcast let the good people know let's jump

into it. So today, you know, and ironically, as fitness influencers, we're going to tell you eight lies and fitness influencers tell you. Give you the truth, give you the background, give you our opinions, because we keep it real. We'll let you know all of our backgrounds with this and some insider secrets.

So this is going to be a really,

really fun episode.

Anything to add before we jump in, Mr.

Kyle?

I almost quit the fitness industry because I got so frustrated like checking out

Instagram and then I realized that the fitness industry needs us and that we keep

it real.

And every client, every

listener, every follower, every supporter, we actually help out. So then I'm like, no, instead

of quitting and, you know, getting frustrated from stuff like this, I didn't actually, you know,

that didn't actually take place, but there are consistently days where I like look through and I

try not to spend too much time on Instagram because like a lot of it can be nonsense within fitness and this is something that a lot of people in the fitness industry will tell will tell you and be honest. But that's what we're here for is to break those myths. That's why we created this podcast in the first place. You've come to a great place. We're happy to have you here if you're a new listener especially. So let's just jump right into number one. So number one is actually fitness clothing.

So this one's really unique because all the time you'll hear, oh, check out my new brand.

I got this new fitness brand. It's super, super good. And like, merch is really cool. But I'm sure

you notice too if you follow our main business, Colossus Fitness, we haven't had merch in a long time. And the reason for that is it's expensive. To get good quality clothing is very expensive to the point where we'd almost lose money selling it for like a normal price. So you really have to mass order things. And a lot of time that'll be like Alibaba, different things like that. And like I literally know for a fact, like major companies out there, I'm not going to listen to any names, so I don't get in trouble, we'll place these huge orders for millions and millions of dollars from Alibaba. You know, they'll cut it salad a certain way, slap a logo on it. And people go out and pay, you know, like 10 times what they should for it. And, you know, this clothing is good and all. And even like Jim Shirk's done a good job at, you know, really accentuating how people look. But a lot of it isn't necessarily the most high quality stuff. Um, so once again, I think it's so great to support people you care about. Even us, like we want to make clothing, but like a lot of those Tspring companies and stuff, like it just really is not the best quality. You know, we've tested it out and it can be a little bit tough, right? And you can want to get all that stuff because you're looking at this person, this influencer who's an incredible shape, looking amazing in that shirt, those leggings, whatever it is. But a lot of time, it's not the best. But then again, like there's some really cool things. Like in particular, uh, we just had Abby Scott on the podcast yesterday. If you haven't listened to that, she made a boutique brand, which I actually think is really cool. Obviously, you know, it's not necessarily for me, but I actually love what she's doing there because it is really unique. It looks like really cool quality clothing. And it's not to say that

people can't make amazing fitness clothing. Like we've had stuff from different sponsors like that we've

loved. We've had stuff that sucked. You know, and like it's so nice when you find like the last

company we were sponsored with. I didn't like a lot of their clothing, but my gym bag is amazing.

I love that thing. It's incredible. Like I'll never get rid of it and um once again just be careful you know are you buying the thing because you like it or you buy it to support them or you buy it because you think it's going to change everything a lot of the time you know you're going to look your best and feel your best and clothing when you actually are on top of your fitness yeah even like i recently well not recently like a couple months ago, place an order from like a well-known, like, U.S. brands. It was like almost $100 for like two T-shirts with the conversion. And, you know, one of them fits so well and I'm like so pumped about it and I wear it consistently. And then the other one, just the sizing was was so off and I ordered the same size and

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