Espresso: James Smith ONE SECRET to INSANE Confidence "The Swimmers Body Illusion"

0:00Espressos is sponsored by supply chain software gurus unleashed it talks to ecom and accounting software it's helped islands cut admin time in half get granular clarity on your margins know where your stock is don't miss availability brands like candy kittens tiny rebel and trip all used unleashed and so should you so uh swimmer's body illusion from a book by rolf debelly and in it there's this idea that there's someone who's fat wants to get in shape he looks at runners and he thinks they skinny and miserable looks at bodybuilders and he thinks they look too muscular and stupid so he goes cool looks at swimmers i like that i want that physique so i'm gonna start swimming a few months into swimming he realizes it's all an illusion swimmers don't look the way they do because they swim they swim because the way they look and in essence what that's saying is people who get in a swimming pool with long limbs big hands streamlined body maybe even like a mobile upper back they glide through the water easily and they get to the end and go oh i like swimming but all the people with short levers maybe small hands maybe poor bone density to buoyancy ratios they get to the end and go fuck this I'm going back to another sport same way that in rugby if you're fast and agile you go I'm probably going to play in the backs if you're dense and strong and heavy you get a position in the forwards if you don't cater to any of these things you don't get the reward you don't enjoy the sport same way in the gym I joke that all long distance runners are people that should never build muscle in the gym they go to the gym don't build any muscle they go fuck this i'm gonna try something else and because they've got frames that don't aren't really any good at building muscle they go to start running and they love it and people will say to me are you big and broad because you played rugby i said no i played rugby because i was big and broad you don't pick a sport your sport picks you at six foot and 94 kilograms my sport was almost predetermined for me if i went to private school i probably would have played at a higher level but when we look around at personal trainers people think that their local pt is a pt because of you know their knowledge their empathy whatever they're not most of the time it's because they look like one if you're a friend in your group of say 100 people in your school year a few of you genetically are going to be leaner and more muscular than other people whether it's base levels of testosterone in the higher ranges whether it's a reduced appetite whether it's whatever it is parents with certain genetics from different parts of the world which has a real impact on your makeup people go fuck me dave you should be a pt why because you love help no you look like one get you in a fucking vest put you on camera you'd be good bruv you know this is what they did people like joe wicks right joe wicks naturally lean guy good looking lad great head of hair his brother's gone fucking hell mate we're gonna get you jumping around the front room we're gonna make some fucking money out of this why because you look like the solution to the uk he's not a fucking chef mate but they've gone right let's get you a few recipes get there stand there get that pan out say lean in 15 go on lean in 15 perfect they create the person and with aftershave they pick the smell last so they choose the brand they choose the packaging they choose the bottle they do this might not be true but this one i've heard yeah and then they pick a smell to match the brand so you would pick an element of your brand that you want to whether you're dior whether you're whatever you would create okay we've got this one the dark bottle we've got the light bottle let's create a gray bottle cool it's going to be a light fragrance it's going to be for masculine men it's going to be a sporty essence cool go make me the smell so with so much of what we see in our world that fitness pleb in clapham doesn't look the way he does because of what he says he says what he says because the way he looks and for that that is one of the biggest red flags in the industry i mean it sounds really bad to say this but there are so many women with an eating disorder and a boob job giving you advice on how to eat and how to train it's just such when i read saw that and read that i watched that video for the first time and i think i've watched one of your youtube videos about that you kind of as you say it gives you x-ray vision and also it's like you know look I'm a microchode.

3:49Like if I'm going to try and play fucking basketball, it's just not going to happen as much as I'd like to. And it's just, it's just, is it, how does that spill over into other aspects of sort of culture and humanity? Do you think? Well, not just PT. I think the majority of CEOs are over six foot. I think 60 % of CEOs are six foot and over. The majority of them are, you know, men as well. And I don't think that comes from sexist. I think it comes from interests, but also the fact that often a leader of a tribe or an army or whatever would be one of your biggest and strongest men. I think that there's subconscious things to that.

4:22Big people often do go into roles of leadership. Whether or not that's right or not, I don't know. I think as well that, you know, absolute size is another big thing, especially in sport. It can be a hindrance in some, but then also genetically between us, we have differences in appetite, muscle mass, bone density, sporting ability, whatever it is. And we just need to appreciate that when we're looking at a fitness influencer, are we looking at someone who knows they can make money from saying a certain thing or are we actually looking at a real person thank you so much for listening to that espresso i hope you enjoyed your morning coffee and are ready for the day let's be having your boy and please do subscribe follow the podcast share this espresso on whatsapp if you liked it and also there's a link to our newsletter in the show description i spend 15 hours toiling and writing this bad boy it's full of wonderful wisdom from the biggest names in food and drink.

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