The Trials and Tribulations of Running YouTubers

I love all the baseless accusations like “forcing his family to run” and “his wife will realize he’s not there for his family” dude we’re watching a YouTube series and pretending like we actually know this guy and his family. Everything I’ve watched leads me to believe the exact opposite. He is very much a family first person. His kids have taken an interest in their dad’s lifestyle, he’s encouraging that. I think it’s lovely.

So much cynicism and cringey hate thrown around in this thread it’s insane. I actually feel sorry for you that you walk around with this lens on life.

Think I'd prefer a 4 hour FlobergRuns video over this tbf

I regret stumbling upon this sad corner of the internet.

Do you realise these YouTubers aren't documentary makers, right? It's all scripted, bud. Everything is set up to create clicks and make money. These people are leeches on running. They'll take what money they can and move on to something else when the running boom is over.

It's made up to manipulate use, Hun. Don't get involved. Go one more, babe

Loved that video it's hilarious, go back and watch the family throughout - it's amazing how obvious it is they want to be anywhere else

I only heard of those girls this week and my god are they dim. The running boom lately really has brought all the Pilates huns out. It’ll be cycling or zumba round 2 or something again soon and they’ll hop on the next trend.

Hello Eric

Apparently The Flo is running Berlin in September. A nice break away from the kids (probably during playoff season too)

he's a mentally ill egotistical maniac trying to pass it off under the guise of a 'creative'. it's embarrassing to watch his content for anyone that isn't a mindless robotic fan who can't think for themselves. idk how his wife puts up with him. his poor family lmao. his kids are growing up with a warped homeschooled view of reality and cameras in their face all day.

you know how insecure floberg is when he finds a way to post random family pictures and videos of his children and wife on his strava running activities which have nothing to do with training. constant need to remind everyone he is a well rounded family man and 'doing it all'. truly insufferable.

my only real gripe with the bloke is that he's pocking $50k+ ripping off normies with his pathetic excuse of run coaching services. would love for the guy to lose all his 'coachees' but they won't leave him because they're clueless and want to fork over $1k per year for nothing sauce. floberg doesn't know how to train himself and has the audacity to take tens of thousands of dollars from dozens of runners and feel like that's justified. all of them could be better off following a standard training book. floberg should be ashamed.

can't wait until this guy moves onto something else.

Good lord (no pun intended) that is absolutely pathetic lmao. What a cringeworthy watch. Ya, floberg probably doesn’t care what people think of him which honestly is a good trait to have as a social media character, but my god that is a ridiculous video period. yup this is definitely the same clueless dope a decade later and I can see why he’s full of himself with all these running vids he makes and oblivious to any sense of normalcy. what an embarrassment. I know the local Chicagoland running community thinks Flo is a cornball - it’s only his running “buddies” who idolize him or people who want to workout with him because he has an online presence. any normal person who isn’t shallow or pathetic quickly realizes how self centered and unaware this guy is.

I cringe for his children who probably see their dad scripting his life in the house to make videos. I hope they aren’t permanently impacted later in life. the fact he has to setup cameras to walk in rooms or speak to a lens is probably lunatic behavior to witness in real life lol. that all out mile treadmill video was laughable - I truly don’t know how he posts that and think it’s good. I’m even more shocked at all the comments he gets on YouTube of people talking to him like he is their hero. Insanity

Yeah fair point. Matt seems to be genuinely curious about Jake, when he talks about him on his podcast/youtube. But it kind of seems to be the opposite over text on RTJ's Strava. Yeah, I don't think all the opinions/criticism Matt points out in Jake's feed is always wrong. Idk

oh man, eurotrip floberg is going to be something to behold. I thought they only let him out of the suburbs to cash in on boston.

It has to be hard for him to digest that he disappeared from the running Youtube scene right in Japan, and now, when he is back (and not missed by any means), the up-and-rising "runtuber" account is an English-speaking guy whose name exactly describes how he ended up.

Matt also Ran To Japan...and will stay as a past activity forever.

It is sad to see that the guy has become completely irrelevant and his strategy to recover is mostly to speak about others who are succeeding in the algorithm game and try to forcefully engage with them. This is why he speaks about RTJ, writes him in Strava, posts comments in his IG (without getting any "like" back from him). I am surprised Jake bit the bait in Strava, but for MF it does not matter, any kind of interaction is feeding him the same way as unicorn blood did with a body-less Voldemort...

I'm not a fox fan, but he's nearly right but not quite.

RTJ is running less, his body recovering from a state of serious fatigue - twit isn't losing fitness fast at all like he thinks, it's a common reaction to a taper from high to lower miles. 10 to twenty beats is normal. He will be all the better for it.

What, you don't think multiple half marathons have a place in the "Winter of Speed" right alongside uncalibrated treadmill time trials? My favorite part of his last video is when Eric claims it was the best long run of his life (8.5 perceived effort! We are so fit!) before admitting it was supposed to just be an easy long run and he was not following what his coach had prescribed. Why even have coach if you're going to constantly run more mileage that prescribed, race the assigned splits, and generally just do whatever you want? I'd ask Floberg what he'd do if one of his athletes was similarly unable to even slightly follow the plan, but we all know the extent of oversight and feedback on those plans is Floberg's camera guy logging onto his computer and distributing Strava kudos.

Fenton shilling betterhelp, justifies it because it’s cloudy in the UK and he has no one to train with like he did in Spain and it’s making him feel sad.

Jesus Christ, even for him that’s bad. Men used to go to war

Betterhelp being the therapy app who got fined after selling sensitive patient data and information to meta and snapchat, even for Fenton that is horrendous. There is nothing this bloke will blindly shill

Jonny D continuing to prepare for a backyard ultra 95% of the world have never heard of his. When will he try and properly compete for a recognised event other than Bares back garden or child plays like running the line? He won’t. He’s a cop out who is even lucky to be considered a runner. He will DNF, mark my words.

My biggest takeaway from the video was that Fenton has 149k YT subscribers 😳. I really had no idea he was that popular.

Good on him for building a following that size, and you can’t argue that a) he’s in great form right now and b) the content quality continues to improve.