It is not effortless. Everything is staged. Everything they do, the way they dress, the way they brush their hair, the mustache, everything is carefully planned. Their coolness is a full time job. The camera takes 40 mins to set up, the lighting, the music, their entire lives are over produced
Real cool people are just cool. They don't need to spend 2 hours getting ready to go out. They just live and the way they live is cool
Flowy is back baby and this time he’s in a tree. Jesus Crust. Zero authenticity with this dude anymore, everything is scripted, every laugh, every camera angle, every word, pre planned. And 30 minutes? Does anyone really need a 30 minute shoetuber talking about his training and his sweet $10,000 gym setup? There’s a repeating pattern with these dopes and I’m somehow still surprised that it keeps happening.
Floberg's video is so odd. Sarah:time, um he was fuming when she didn't know his Chicago time, and that he had run his most miles ever in a week. She clearly hates his new "job".
He talked about Grandma's again how he paced one of his athletes, uh no he didn't. And tree time? "My legs are falling asleep", what's the point? That video was so awkward, just when you thought it couldn't get worse, it did.
Floberg (and a LOT of other semi-serious runners chasing PR's) make sure to train hard enough (run workouts fast enough and push their mileage) that it feels hard and grindy and challenging. That's the metric they're chasing, that training should be hard. And that's to the detriment of their training quality, life quality, and ultimately a detriment to their race performances.
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So I hate how wrong I think this mindset is for chasing PR's. If [Floberg] weren't so focused on PR'ing, I wouldn't care as much. He can do what he wants with the sport. If it's a medium for masochism, so be it. But if he really cares about PR'ing, he must change the nature of his training, his mindset toward his training, and the nature of his videos would follow.
I think he's at least headed in the right direction now. I liked how one of his points of emphasis is to stick to the prescribed paces for his workouts. Imagine being a coach and an athlete with a long history of running workouts faster than prescribed calls up to say they feel like their training has been too intense and they want to adjust the approach.
Ok, running aside, it's problematic when a documentarian's subject is themselves. If you were filming someone else for many hours a day, for weeks or months, they'd sometimes forget the cameras are there and you'd begin to capture more authentic behavior. Then it's up to the documentarian's judgment to edit the footage for a truthful depiction.
Obviously this is not what we're getting with Floberg as he's filming himself. And even the scenes that are meant to seem like they're capturing an authentic moment feel set up. Or if it's not set up, then it's a case of a lot of footage taken and the one clip we see is the one Floberg wants us to see. I'm not as cynical as you all about it. I don't think it's completely fabricated to make money. I just get the feeling he's showing us who he wants to be, not who he is. It's more of an aspirational depiction than a realistic depiction.
Ok, running aside, it's problematic when a documentarian's subject is themselves. If you were filming someone else for many hours a day, for weeks or months, they'd sometimes forget the cameras are there and you'd begin to capture more authentic behavior. Then it's up to the documentarian's judgment to edit the footage for a truthful depiction.
Obviously this is not what we're getting with Floberg as he's filming himself. And even the scenes that are meant to seem like they're capturing an authentic moment feel set up. Or if it's not set up, then it's a case of a lot of footage taken and the one clip we see is the one Floberg wants us to see. I'm not as cynical as you all about it. I don't think it's completely fabricated to make money. I just get the feeling he's showing us who he wants to be, not who he is. It's more of an aspirational depiction than a realistic depiction.
Every little scene feels so scripted and acted. The lighting, the clothes he wears, what he says to the camera. It all feels so unnatural. You can also see that he is very aware of the camera all the time, and the stuff he says and does never comes off as organic. A perfect example is the last scene of him cutting his hair.
Every little scene feels so scripted and acted. The lighting, the clothes he wears, what he says to the camera. It all feels so unnatural. You can also see that he is very aware of the camera all the time, and the stuff he says and does never comes off as organic. A perfect example is the last scene of him cutting his hair.
I will add that besides dude comming off very fake on camera I like the fact that so far he has not reply to even a single comment on his latest video. Or if he did I haven't seen it. His fans glazing him and he doesn't acknowledge them either in the video or in the comments. This people don't see Floberg for the narcissist that he is?
He really thinks he's special and above all his fans. You know... I'm starting to think that he is above them. If they are that much of an unthinking sheep gobbling slop running content disguised as "art" just because the man knows how to use a camera...
Floberg (and a LOT of other semi-serious runners chasing PR's) make sure to train hard enough (run workouts fast enough and push their mileage) that it feels hard and grindy and challenging. That's the metric they're chasing, that training should be hard. And that's to the detriment of their training quality, life quality, and ultimately a detriment to their race performances.
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So I hate how wrong I think this mindset is for chasing PR's. If [Floberg] weren't so focused on PR'ing, I wouldn't care as much. He can do what he wants with the sport. If it's a medium for masochism, so be it. But if he really cares about PR'ing, he must change the nature of his training, his mindset toward his training, and the nature of his videos would follow.
I think he's at least headed in the right direction now. I liked how one of his points of emphasis is to stick to the prescribed paces for his workouts. Imagine being a coach and an athlete with a long history of running workouts faster than prescribed calls up to say they feel like their training has been too intense and they want to adjust the approach.
Ok, running aside, it's problematic when a documentarian's subject is themselves. If you were filming someone else for many hours a day, for weeks or months, they'd sometimes forget the cameras are there and you'd begin to capture more authentic behavior. Then it's up to the documentarian's judgment to edit the footage for a truthful depiction.
Obviously this is not what we're getting with Floberg as he's filming himself. And even the scenes that are meant to seem like they're capturing an authentic moment feel set up. Or if it's not set up, then it's a case of a lot of footage taken and the one clip we see is the one Floberg wants us to see. I'm not as cynical as you all about it. I don't think it's completely fabricated to make money. I just get the feeling he's showing us who he wants to be, not who he is. It's more of an aspirational depiction than a realistic depiction.
Floberg strangely seems to run his easy runs actually easy. It's the workouts which show his utter lack of understanding.
He tries to run marathon pace. Whether this is marathon effort doesn't matter. He runs a pace. Is it the pace prescribed? Is it the required effort? Who cares. He wants, needs, to hit a certain pace he has in his head.
He then turns up at his marathon, again showing his total lack of understanding, thinking "hey, I hit 2:33 pace when running my marathon pace" and thus, with tapered legs this will equal 2:29.
He then starts his marathon at a pace he is not fit enough to run but either doesn't listen to his body telling him this isn't sustainable or simply doesn't understand what marathon effort should feel like. The guy has ran a lot of marathons, probably all but potentially 1 or 2 really, really badly, yet he hasn't worked out how a marathon should feel. He is really quite dim when it comes to running.
All this and people are still paying him $120 to be "coached" by him!?
Jake (Ran to Japan) basically replied to the comments here talking about how there are too many ads in his videos lately... around 4 mins into the newest video (How I Ran My Best 10k EVER... 1 Week After a Marathon!). Pretty cool he's reading this, WE LOVE YOU JAKE!!!
And last, and definitely least, I didn't bother to listen to this week's episode of the Believe in The Run podcast because the last one was so cringe. But they seem to be making race plans, and (from several of the past episodes) probably featuring more of Thomas begging his wife Meaghan to wear buns. Thomas: Lululemon carries buns in up to size 16; if you're that obsessed with them, buy yourself a pair and run your next trail race in them! I mean it's a trail race, so who cares!!!
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