[davidvarela_us]

I strongly disagree. Weight training is one of the best gifts you can give your body. It keeps you healthy and event prevents injury if done correctly.

What you did wrong was not weight training but following an unbalanced training regimen. No judgement there, I was guilty of the same when I was younger. I think younger/uninformed lifters tend to "ego lift" and focus on size over aspects of physical training. It is easy to fall into this trap when social media is heavily skewed toward steroid users.

Building physical strength is no sin. But you have to approach it from a health and not ego-centered perspective. This means lifting within your ability and with good form, practicing mobility exercises, and understanding the kinetic chain.

Developing a healthy body is a lifelong and rewarding journey. I recommend anyone starting their fitness journey to ground themselves in functional strength and physical therapy instead of the bro culture that is rampant in the fitness industry. I recommend the channels AthleanX and Kneesovertoesguy on YouTube if you want learn from people who teach safe and balanced approaches to strength.

[peter_l_downs]

I will second the endorsement for AthleanX and KneesOverToesGuy. They have both helped me recover from injuries I suffered due to imbalances created by poor training practices. They've helped me improve both strength and mobility (turns out they're related!) and stay healthy. KOTG has been most helpful for injury recovery; Athlean X is mostly just fun. But they both promote learning about your body and the kinetic chain and how an exercise affects your muscles.

[oarfish]

If I remember correctly, AthleanX is getting a lot of heat from the science-based fitness community for unscientific advice, though I might misremember here.

However, for those interested in practical science for strength training, I would recommend Barbell Medicine's content (by actual physicians) and Stronger by Science, perhaps.

[Octabrain]

I've personally found that AthleanX has, IMO, good and informative videos but a few ones that sounded to me of looking for the controversy for the sake of views, being the one I remember the most about the "muscle-up being a showing off party trick" which is, based on my years of experience in free running, body building, gymnastics, martial arts and climbing, utterly ridiculous.

[monkeyshelli]

I also suggest checking out Squat University and Citizen Athletics.

[AmericanChopper]

AthleanX is a fake-natty idiot who has made a meme out of himself by giving consistently self-conflicting and nonsensical advice (and by using fake weights in his videos lol…). Kneesovertoesguy has great advice for joint health, but nobody should pay any attention to AthleanX.

[bavell]

This is just FUD. I've learned a ton from AthleanX in the past few years and love his no-nonsense approach. Especially great are all the corrective exercises he includes for posture improvement and injury prevention. The worst thing I could criticize him for is his clickbait Youtube titles - the content is solid though so idgaf.

[xwdv]

Jeff Nippard is probably more to hackernews taste. Not really sure if he’s true natty but regardless his videos are much more scientific and data driven than other influencers.

[Octabrain]

Agree to disagree. I guess each body behaves differently. Worth mentioning that I was always cautious with the amount of weigths and strict with the executiom. Never got injured, however as I said, I could felt the load in my joints and also felt how my body became bigger and slower, where, for the activities I perform that was a burden.