In recent years, gym-going culture has seen a significant rise in the bodybuilding industry. More and more people are making a beeline to reap its benefits. However, there is one major caveat to its growing importance: Greg Doucette, a bodybuilder, and powerlifter, warned of injuries caused by young gymgoers seeking social media likes.

The gym is a haven for many to achieve their desired bodies and get those muscles pumping. And more often than not, one is trying to achieve their personal best. But going to the extreme without supervision can have many poor effects. Let’s dig deeper to see how something good can become detrimental.

Greg Doucette highlights the dangerous gym culture of lifting heavy to impress social media fans

The IFBB pro, Doucette, revealed a worrying trend among fitness enthusiasts in his Instagram post, which shows a young man performing split squats with heavy weights. The gentleman could only do one squat, and then he threw away the humongous weights on the floor of the gym. He could have easily hurt himself or others.

Greg criticizes the video for demonstrating the lack of respect for others and gym etiquette among social media influencers. The famous powerlifter had a word of caution for such methods. The fitness coach wrote in the post’s caption, “Please do not try this at home. This could easily have ended very poorly with a broken knee or torn muscle.”

The IFBB pro bodybuilder is talking from experience, as he has made a name for himself in weightlifting. The 47-year-old held a sumo deadlift world record in 2015. He achieved the feat of deadlifting 402.5 pounds in 60 seconds through 50 reps, which takes the total weight lifted to a mind-numbing 20128.2 lbs. in 1 minute.

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Greg stands at five foot six inches and has become famous on social media, with over 1.9 million YouTube subscribers. Doucette has made it his mission to call out stunts that people do for attention and some other issues on social media. The Bachelor’s and Master’s degree holder in kinesiology is quick to react to any tomfoolery or injustice happening around. Recently, he highlighted an important issue of body dysmorphia on his YouTube channel.

Doucette calls out people for height-shaming an individual in a coffee shop

Recollecting a snippet where a 5-foot-tall man was height-shamed at a coffee shop, Doucette reveals that most people are unhappy with how their bodies look. The fitness coach adds, “Perhaps it’s your height, perhaps it’s your weight, perhaps it’s your nose, your chin.” He observes that even celebrities like Kevin Hart and Megan Fox go through moments of self-doubt.

However, it is not the fault of the individual, as height is beyond one’s control. Empathizing with the man in the video, Doucette makes a cogent observation that the man in the video must have been body shamed throughout his entire life. He further gives some statistics about his situation by saying, “..at my height, I’m only taller than 13% of people in the United States alone. 87% of people are taller than me.” Furthermore, the social media influencer and coach tried to spread the message of body positivity through his honest opinions. He asked his followers to love themselves, no matter what. Do you agree with Greg Doucette’s stance? Please comment below.

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