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0:00This is Retatrutide, the latest fitness
0:02industry GLP1 medication. The one that
0:04is really pissing off a lot of personal
0:06trainers and fitness people and health
0:08gurus. We're going to get into why. For
0:10some of you that may be new here, I'm
0:11James Smith, the calorie deficit guy.
0:13The guy that apparently said the only
0:15way to lose weight is to create a
0:16calorie deficit. And you're correct and
0:17I stand by that. And everyone thinks
0:18I've changed my tune because I think the
0:20GLP1s are good for some people. So,
0:22let's do a quick recap. On this side, we
0:24have the principle, the calorie deficit.
0:26I just call it the calorie [ __ ]
0:27deficit. Then over here we had the goal
0:29which was people want to lose fat. Then
0:31in the middle was the method. How we
0:33achieve that? How do we get fat loss to
0:35occur? Now you can dress up the
0:37principle and you can hide it from
0:38people and people did this for a very
0:39long time. 52 which is just eating less.
0:42Intermittent fasting, eating less,
0:44reducing insulin, going low carb, eating
0:46less. And my problem with the industry
0:47was people would masquerade these and
0:49go, "No, no, no. It's not a calorie
0:51deficit. It's the fact you're reducing
0:52your insulin. It's not a calorie
0:53deficit. It's because you're fasting."
0:55And to me, I hated that. The fitness
0:56industry for a long time has kept the
0:58principle out of arms reach. People
1:00don't want to know about NG balance so
1:02they can sell them fat loss with their
1:04desired method. Still with me? My job
1:05was to empower people to say, "Hey,
1:07there is a certain amount of calories
1:08that you eat every day and you will lose
1:10fat on it." Try this number. I'll put a
1:12calorie calculator in the description.
1:13Try that number. It's either going to
1:15work or if it doesn't, keep reducing it
1:16by 5 to 10% till it does. And there's
1:18going to be a number where you don't
1:19feel like [ __ ] when you're dieting all
1:20the time. Simple as. Because when people
1:22understand that, they don't have to buy
1:23into these shitty systems. I want us to
1:24think of this as the overweight scale.
1:26Little bit overweight, very overweight.
1:28Now, I've done thousands of hours of
1:30personal training before. Most these
1:31plebs on the internet haven't, which is
1:32why we've probably got a very different
1:34standpoint on this. This red zone is
1:36incredibly obese people. Let's say BMI
1:3930 is there. Now, I've had these clients
1:41before. They come into the gym, they
1:42want help. It's 2015 and I look at them
1:44and they're 150 [ __ ] kilograms. Now,
1:47when someone is 150 kg, they've tried
1:50something before. And as a personal
1:52trainer, I'm not their therapist. I
1:53can't ask them about childhood trauma. I
1:55can't do many things. I can't even give
1:57them a meal plan. I'm a personal
1:59trainer. We give people workouts and
2:00motivate them to feel good. Get them to
2:02feel motivated to change their own diet.
2:03Almost every single client I've had in
2:06the red zone, for decades, I have
2:08failed. Do you know what it's like to
2:09get a 10 block off a client that can
2:11pretty much only do a handful of
2:12exercises because they're so big, they
2:14get massively out of breath going
2:16upstairs? I've had clients where it
2:18would take us 2 minutes to get up the
2:19stairs to go upstairs. And you know when
2:21you start training them that you can't
2:22help them. It's a pretty deflating thing
2:24for a coach and a trainer to have. And
2:25to say to these people just to eat less,
2:27you don't think they've tried this
2:27before. These people aren't lazy.
2:29They've got issues. I don't think it's a
2:31broken appetite, but I do think it's way
2:33above my pay grade or expertise. So, I
2:35still stand that everyone here should
2:38just reduce the amount of calories
2:39they're coming in, clean up their diet,
2:40exercise more, etc., etc. The reason I'm
2:43an advocate of GLP1s is there is now a
2:46cohort of people that I could help. And
2:48the way you help them is to tell them to
2:50talk to their doctor or to talk to a
2:51clinic or to talk to a company that can
2:52provide them with the GP1 medication. I
2:54know what you're thinking. But James,
2:55people are abusing that system and now
2:57people are lying and editing their
2:58photos so they can get the medication.
3:00Not our problem. If Dave here lies to
3:02his clinic and says it hurts when he
3:04pisses and he gets given chlamydia
3:05medication, that's not our problem. If
3:07he wants to lie to the doctor to do that
3:08or someone wants to complain about back
3:10pain to get painkillers, not our
3:12problem. And if you are Dave, you can
3:14get a zithramycin or a zithramax for
3:16chlamyia. One is like a three-day
3:17treatment and one of them is a 24-hour
3:19treatment. I don't understand why people
3:21would go for the longer treatment. You
3:23just take the pills, Bosch. Fine. And if
3:25your MS asks, just say you shared a
3:26toilet seat with someone at rugby. Easy.
3:28Or one of my mates, he told his misses
3:30that he drunk piss, literally someone's
3:32piss on rugby tour. And that's how we
3:34got chlamydia. Now, I don't know who's
3:35in the wrong here. Him for doing it or
3:36her for believing him. Don't worry,
3:38Declan. It's not gay, it's rugby. So,
3:39it's not that my beliefs have changed.
3:41I'm just delighted that where I could
3:43only help this amount of people before,
3:45I can now help a wider amount because
3:47the calorie [ __ ] deficit here can now
3:49be accessed by anyone. And some people
3:51are going to go, "Oh, but there's
3:53complications. We have GLP1 medications.
3:55We've got no long-term studies." Well,
3:57we've got like 10 to 20 years of
3:58evidence for a start. Second of all, the
4:00reason these people are in the red zone
4:02is they're probably staring down the
4:04barrel. Cardiovascular disease, stroke,
4:06heart attack, like soon quality of life
4:08hugely diminished. if they can get into
4:10a calorie deficit and they can bring
4:11themselves down this, the chances of
4:13them living a longer, better quality of
4:15life are significantly higher. Thus, why
4:17I'm a proponent and a fan. Now,
4:19whichever route someone comes from as a
4:21personal trainer, there's only actually
4:22several things we need to do with
4:24people. We've all seen stories online of
4:26people that have got terrible bone
4:28density and they've literally faded away
4:29from taking a GLP1. And it's because
4:30they've neglected two things that we as
4:32trainers actually work with with clients
4:34when we put them in deficit. First one
4:35is muscle loss. You get someone to train
4:37hard. You get them to train weights. You
4:39get them to train often. And ultimately,
4:40I don't understand why personal trainers
4:41have got the nickers in such a twist
4:43because if someone comes to you at a
4:44normal slightly overweight BMI, we get
4:46them to do that. If someone's coming to
4:48you after using a GLP1, you do the same
4:50thing. Not to mention personal trainers,
4:52the amount of people that are going to
4:54come to the gym is about to increase
4:56over the next 5 to 10 years. The amount
4:58of global obesity is already on decline.
5:00The amount of people that never felt
5:02welcome in a gym is about to shrink.
5:04This is something you should be happy
5:05for. I don't understand why. And it
5:06might be because you think, I'm not
5:08qualified to give them the drugs. That's
5:09a conversation between them and their
5:10doctors. The bit you're going to do is
5:12these GLP1 people are going to come into
5:14gyms and you've got a whole fresh cohort
5:15of people that you can teach to squat,
5:17to deadlift, to do certain gym
5:19movements. You get to write them a
5:21program, and you get to charge them
5:22money to be accountable. Then from the
5:24nutrition, adequate protein, and
5:25adequate nutrition, which can be broken
5:27down into what? Fiber, what could we
5:29say? Let's say calories. Whoever we take
5:31into the gym, we want to make sure
5:32they're not undereating. They're getting
5:34enough fruit and veg. They're consuming
5:35enough protein. You want to make sure
5:36they're training often, following a
5:38workout program, and going to the gym.
5:40So many people get it twisted. Oh, you
5:42just need some willpower. You just I've
5:44worked with these people. Trust me,
5:46they've tried everything. The crazy
5:47thing is, as a PT, my job, your job,
5:50everyone's job's the same. It just means
5:52that more people can now benefit and get
5:54health from the fitness industry. And
5:56again, I I need to explain this one
5:58quite a few times. There are three
5:59pillars of health that you should really
6:01be aiming for if you're overweight.
6:03Fitness, fat, food. If you can increase
6:05someone's level of fitness, if someone's
6:07unfit and you get them on a bike, you
6:08get them doing zone 2 cardio, you get
6:10them going for a run, you get them doing
6:11whatever it is, if you increase that
6:13level of fitness, even if they remain
6:14fat and their diet [ __ ] you are going
6:16to improve their levels of health.
6:17Cardiovascular fitness, V2 max, highly
6:19correlated with longevity. Cool. Now,
6:21let's say that the person you're
6:23training doesn't particularly like going
6:24to the gym or exercise. Cool. The next
6:26thing we can look at if that person has
6:28got huge amounts of excess body fat that
6:30we know objectively is really not a good
6:33thing. And then food, we're going to
6:34have a look at let's say quality of the
6:35diet. Out of all three of these, food is
6:37the most difficult one to get people to
6:39change. People can go to the gym, people
6:41can lose weight, people really struggle
6:43with the food. And getting someone to
6:44eat a healthy diet can take months,
6:46literally six to 12 months to change
6:47your diet. You want to change it a
6:48little bit by a little bit. If your
6:49diet's a three out of 10, you get it to
6:50a four out of 10. You coast there for a
6:52while. Now, for the first time in
6:54history, people with excessive amounts
6:55of body fat in a matter of weeks and
6:57months, doctors can prescribe people a
7:00drug that reduces their appetite to the
7:01point that we can reduce the amount of
7:03fat that they have, which in more cases
7:05than not inclines people to increase
7:08their levels of fitness. And when
7:09someone is exercising more and they are
7:11looking better and they lose weight, it
7:13has a tremendous impact on them wanting
7:16to increase the quality of their food.
7:18There's a trifecta here of health
7:19markers that work synergistically.
7:21However, if people don't lose fat
7:23because they can't deal with their
7:24appetite or whatever, they will never
7:26increase their fitness and they'll never
7:27increase the quality of their food. And
7:28I know what some of you are going to
7:29think. Oh, but James, first of all, is
7:31this video paid for by farmer? You
7:34[ __ ] dorks. No, I'm not getting paid.
7:36If you can't tell, I'm excited that the
7:39people that I've looked at in the eyes
7:40that I've genuinely thought for the last
7:4110 years, sorry, you're [ __ ] are no
7:44longer [ __ ] And that to me is quite
7:45an exciting prospect. And the fact here
7:47that out of this trifecta, bringing this
7:49one down has now become easy, nearly
7:52affordable, and very safe comparative to
7:54what it was before. The fact that
7:56there's going to be more people being
7:58fitness orientated, and more people
8:00eating better. This has a societal
8:02positive effect. Less losers, more happy
8:05people, more people dating, more people
8:07having families, more people having
8:08[ __ ] kids, more people contributing
8:10to the economy, less people on benefits.
8:12I'm still the calorie deficit guy. I'm
8:14still here running an online coaching
8:16business. Well, I'll put a link in the
8:18description where you can have a free
8:19trial. These medications like retatride,
8:21which will be cleared soon. I haven't
8:23taken that. I'm kind of I'm a bit scared
8:25of it because it is underground. It's
8:27not legit. It's not from pharmaceutical
8:29and I wanted to use it in the thumbnail.
8:30After trying these drugs where my BMI
8:32was above 30, but it's because I'm
8:34probably a bit more muscular that I got
8:36away with that. I abused the system. You
8:37know, we were saying about Dave there.
8:38I'm guilty of that. My BMI, I can get
8:41into the obese territory just by having
8:42a good Christmas. And that's what
8:44happened when I had my hernia surgery.
8:45Got up to 101 and a bit kilograms. Boom.
8:47But anyway, I just can't fathom why so
8:50many people are so bitterly disappointed
8:52with these medications. Think of it this
8:53way. I quite literally make the majority
8:55of my money from people doing it without
8:57the medications. If anyone should hate
8:58them, it should be me. Should be the
9:00calorie deficit guy. The guy that says,
9:01"Oh, just eat. Let's move more." No. I'm
9:03sorry. I think these drugs are
9:04fantastic. If you don't like that, we
9:06can agree to disagree. These drugs are
9:07only going to get better. They're going
9:08to get safer and more available to more
9:10people that need them. And if you think
9:11that's a bad thing, we just see the
9:13world differently.