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Are you ready for HIT to go mainstream?

I just stumbled on this community in the craziest way. I uploaded a YouTube short about failure showing footage of Mentzer with a client. I was telling some guy on the forum about it only to find out he's the guy in the footage! I probably wouldn't have glazed Markus the way I did, had I known I was immedietly going to talk to him about the footage 😅.

It seems to me this is a community that has been focused first on bringing value to customers. I respect it. But I think the time will come when the HIT philosophy will reach a wider audience.

I notice nobody on this forum is talking about the Mike Israetel PhD drama. Again I can respect that. But I think it is relevant to where we are at in this moment.

Brief overview:

Isreatel of YouTube channel Renaissance Periodization is known for bragging about being super high IQ and being a leading expert in his field (field unspecified).

Solomon Nelson gets ahold of his PhD and tears it to pieces, in a YouTube that now has 1.4 million views, but also has countless reaction videos throughout the fitness YouTube space.

Mike then has his personal PR team upload a forged document to the academic archives. This forged document was so poorly done it was extremely obvious it was fake. Plus the meta-data showed it was Mike Israetel's PR company that had recently uploaded the file.

How does Mike Israetel's PR team have access to the academic archives? I can't be certain, but most likely through Mike Stone.

Who is Mike Stone?

Mike Stone is the protégé of Tudor Bompa who brought Periodization to the west after it's inception in Lysenkoism error Soviet Union. Periodization took off during the error when the Olympics were not testing for PEDs, and steroids were being used by athletes.

The Soviet Union looked to a Physiologist in Medveyev to perscribe exercise based on his presumed understanding of how steroids would work.

The precedent of letting physiologists dictate exercise perscription was thus set during a time when steroids were not only the cutting edge new technology, but kept secret and without any oversight from the Olympics.

Tudor Bompa is mainstream in academia regarding exercise perscription. But if you read any of Tudor Bompa's books and pay attention to the references, he doesn't usually bother referencing studies that actually test exercise at all. And when he does it never justifies anything he says.

When Dr. James Steele wrote his book chapter called "The Myth of Periodization" he pointed out that 'periodization' isn't a scientific theory. This article seemed to be well recieved among academics. Many of whom were probably fully aware periodization is nonsense but nobody wants to be the first guy to point out the obvious.

Now that it is clear Israetel is a grifter, Mike Stone ought to be investigated by the University for his potential role in letting a forged document get uploaded to the academic archives. And for his role as supervisor in letting such a disgraceful PhD pass to begin with.

How long till people start questioning Tudor Bompa and realize he has been playing the same game the whole time?

Dorian Yates has weighed in on the controversy, cutting a legendary Promo on Mike Israetel. Again, it seems like this community is the opposite of being preoccupied with fitness influencer drama. But I think this is relevant and a cultural shift is starting to take place.

This moment presents an opportunity to speak up and reach a mainstream audience. It might change the whole focus and mission of the community. It might attract a different audience. There may be negative implication for your tight-nit community.

I encourage you to discuss all the anticipated negative consequences of HIT going mainstream. Because these will likely be the roadblocks preventing it from happening. But I think it should happen, I think it needs to happen.

Here's my latest breakdown of the situation:

https://youtu.be/fQG46vIWNnA?si=h7QxFV0IESmtXYYd

Here's a short where I show Tudor Bompa's book:

https://youtube.com/shorts/1e97h0bXWVE?si=fElmRr1zvgQ35VdN

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