Wanting More Muscle is Ruining Your Mental Health? Response to Philip DeFranco || MBPP Ep. 933
Mark Bell's Power Project
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4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 17 May 2023
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
In this Podcast Episode, Mark Bell, Nsima Inyang, and Andrew Zaragoza talk respond to a video from Philip DeFranco on men struggling with body dysmorphia caused by fitness influencers and the fitness community.
Watch Philip's video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzGqsCp_SiE&t=189s
Time Stamps
00:00 Preview
00:48 Episode Start
01:55 Philip Defranco begins, it’s ok to be skinny
02:28 What age when we started “Building Muscle”
04:06 Eating habits of young men
09:46 Men and focus on appearance
13:58 Most men care more about looks than success
19:49 Putting too much stock into influencers
29:20 Philip on mental effects of focusing on the body
30:58 Try something other than LIFTING
34:30 George Foreman Come back
39:16 Strength Dysmorphia?
40:50 Screen time and Muscle Dysmorphia and celebrities/influencers bodies
42:20 Phil’s Transformation
42:38 Mark’s wife Loves Henry Cavill
45:16 Media is also causing Muscle Dysmorphia and protein shakes are dangerous?
49:18 We’re in the age of comparison
51:31 Should you unfollow people to guard your mind?
54:38 Episode End
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | It is okay to be skinny. |
| 0:01.8 | Most young guys, not eating the most healthy things. |
| 0:05.5 | No. |
| 0:06.0 | Most people should be more regimented with the way they eat. |
| 0:09.4 | It shouldn't be a feature. |
| 0:10.4 | With a 2014 poll, finding that men worry more about their appearance |
| 0:13.4 | than their health, family, relationships, or professional success. |
| 0:16.4 | When I was 16, I remember I was trying to cut a little bit of body fat. |
| 0:19.5 | I told you guys about this, I went on 1000 calorie diet. |
| 0:22.5 | The performance is the thing that should be focused on |
| 0:25.5 | rather than always how the body looks. |
| 0:28.2 | A lot of people start lifting weights because they want to be more significant. |
| 0:31.0 | They want to be stronger. |
| 0:32.0 | And why do you want to be stronger? |
| 0:33.2 | Like, break that down. |
| 0:34.4 | Maybe you want to be stronger because you want to be able to defend yourself. |
| 0:37.1 | Maybe you think that if you build yourself big enough that people won't mess with you. |
| 0:40.6 | But what if you just did something different? |
| 0:42.6 | What if instead of that, you went to Jiu-Jitsu in the first place |
| 0:45.2 | or went to wrestling in the first place? |
| 0:48.6 | Ready? |
| 0:49.4 | Wait. |
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