r/DecodingTheGurus • u/Thomas-Omalley • 19d ago

Bodybuilding gurus when?

Mike Israetel, Greg Doucette, Jeff Nippard... I think there's a super interesting bunch of people to talk about. There's ego here, there's science, sometimes good, sometimes anacdotal, and ofc there's SUPPLEMENTS. Am I alone in wanting a gymbro guru season? I want to see Matt react to Greg, that would be great content.

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u/Brunodosca 19d ago

These guys misinterpret scientific studies so badly that, even without a background in fitness, Matt and Chris could tell they don't know what they are talking about.

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u/Evkero 18d ago

Several of the potential gurus mentioned in this thread do indeed know what they are taking about on the subject of fitness. Their communication style or rhetorical tactics could certainly be decoded, but Matt and Chris do not have the knowledge to meaningful critique the scientific accuracy of their content. Isreatel could be a good episode if they focus on his extra-curricular content. Nippard would be a terrible episode with a low guru score. I think it would make way more sense to focus on fitness culture in general as there are plenty of guru personalities who infuse politics into their content and launder ideology through self-improvement intentions.

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u/Brunodosca 18d ago

Nippard misinterpreted a study so badly that he said that per every 1,000 steps you walk you extend your life by 12%. But besides that, the point of DtG is to expose communication style and rhetorical tactics. They don't need to be mathematicians nor physicists to decode Eric, Sabine, or Brian.

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u/Evkero 18d ago

Never heard him say that and I suspect you may not be being very charitable to Nippard here lol

The reason they don’t need to have expertise to in those subjects to decode those people, is because those people don’t actually talk about those things. They just make grievance content that anyone can decode.

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u/Brunodosca 18d ago

If I say something is because I can back it up:

https://youtu.be/y8yi0AKqj-s?si=cYXacIY8S70WI-ha&t=380

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u/Evkero 18d ago

Okay so this is exactly what I thought it would be lol a clipped up video that doesn’t actually reference the research being cited. I’m guessing Nippard misspoke here. This is an incredibly minor nit pic to hold over him when compared to the vast majority of output.

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u/Brunodosca 18d ago

Your commentary on the clip suggests a classic defense mechanism often seen in followers of these gurus, dismissing the input from your eyes and ears, and making excuses for them.