The Trials and Tribulations of Running YouTubers

Two sense wrote:

Floberg 8x800 today at marathon pace. Ok fine no issues with the workout. Do whatever last time up you want several days out from the big race. But his captions still get me “heart rate so low. So fresh and fit”. He’s literally obsessed with his heart rate and his abs ever since he felt like he isn’t the chubby kid anymore. It’s wild how much he strokes his own ego and how far up his own behind he is.

He is so oblivious to the fact that clearly his low HR is not a flex and honestly isn’t impressive and may actually indicate an overall problem he has. Just embarassing at this point. Grown man performing for social media like a monkey daily and vocabulary only consisting of “core memory, freaking fit, heart rate, love the community”

Fenton, baby wrote:

Two sense wrote:

Floberg 8x800 today at marathon pace. Ok fine no issues with the workout. Do whatever last time up you want several days out from the big race. But his captions still get me “heart rate so low. So fresh and fit”. He’s literally obsessed with his heart rate and his abs ever since he felt like he isn’t the chubby kid anymore. It’s wild how much he strokes his own ego and how far up his own behind he is.

He is so oblivious to the fact that clearly his low HR is not a flex and honestly isn’t impressive and may actually indicate an overall problem he has. Just embarassing at this point. Grown man performing for social media like a monkey daily and vocabulary only consisting of “core memory, freaking fit, heart rate, love the community”

He says it's "Half Marathon Pace" then runs 6 of them slower than his PR of 1:12 which is the equivalent of about 2:31. His HR for the 800m reps was higher than for his HM PR. So even though he is "so fit" he isn't in sub 2:30 shape

He isn't aware of what his max HR is. He says it's 190 but I don't think it got over 180 in his mile or 8k races recently.

Two sense wrote:

Floberg 8x800 today at marathon pace. Ok fine no issues with the workout. Do whatever last time up you want several days out from the big race. But his captions still get me “heart rate so low. So fresh and fit”. He’s literally obsessed with his heart rate and his abs ever since he felt like he isn’t the chubby kid anymore. It’s wild how much he strokes his own ego and how far up his own behind he is.

He is so oblivious to the fact that clearly his low HR is not a flex and honestly isn’t impressive and may actually indicate an overall problem he has. Just embarassing at this point. Grown man performing for social media like a monkey daily and vocabulary only consisting of “core memory, freaking fit, heart rate, love the community”

RunFasterEatPasta wrote:

Two sense wrote:

Floberg 8x800 today at marathon pace. Ok fine no issues with the workout. Do whatever last time up you want several days out from the big race. But his captions still get me “heart rate so low. So fresh and fit”. He’s literally obsessed with his heart rate and his abs ever since he felt like he isn’t the chubby kid anymore. It’s wild how much he strokes his own ego and how far up his own behind he is.

He is so oblivious to the fact that clearly his low HR is not a flex and honestly isn’t impressive and may actually indicate an overall problem he has. Just embarassing at this point. Grown man performing for social media like a monkey daily and vocabulary only consisting of “core memory, freaking fit, heart rate, love the community”

Funny how “sharing training” suddenly becomes “ego” the second someone is actually consistent and, yes, in good shape. Posting heart rate isn’t some secret flex, it’s just a basic metric. People ask about effort, that’s one way to show it without writing a dissertation every day.

And the whole “used to be chubby so now obsessed” thing… or maybe it’s just called maintaining something you worked for. Shocking concept.

If the content feels repetitive, it’s probably because training is repetitive. Turns out running well isn’t built on novelty.

Anyway, if it’s that embarrassing, no one’s forcing you to watch my stuff. Funny how the “monkey performing” still seems to hold your attention though.

WhatWeAllWant wrote:

RunFasterEatPasta wrote:

Funny how “sharing training” suddenly becomes “ego” the second someone is actually consistent and, yes, in good shape. Posting heart rate isn’t some secret flex, it’s just a basic metric. People ask about effort, that’s one way to show it without writing a dissertation every day.

And the whole “used to be chubby so now obsessed” thing… or maybe it’s just called maintaining something you worked for. Shocking concept.

If the content feels repetitive, it’s probably because training is repetitive. Turns out running well isn’t built on novelty.

Anyway, if it’s that embarrassing, no one’s forcing you to watch my stuff. Funny how the “monkey performing” still seems to hold your attention though.

Ignore the hate on here Eric (if this is actually you, which I doubt). It’s almost impossible for any YouTuber to please this forum. Even RtJ is beginning to get a lot of stick. The only people who seem to avoid any criticism and get only love are SirPoC, Donato and FOD

I enjoy your videos. Found your journey interesting to watch and lots of people obviously agree.

Id be interested to see you try a different training approach after this marathon though. NSM for example seems perfect for you in theory.

You and FOD are very similar in terms of PBs so some sort of collab with him would be a great watch. Interested to see who clocks the faster marathon between you two in your upcoming races!

WhatWeAllWant wrote:

RunFasterEatPasta wrote:

Funny how “sharing training” suddenly becomes “ego” the second someone is actually consistent and, yes, in good shape. Posting heart rate isn’t some secret flex, it’s just a basic metric. People ask about effort, that’s one way to show it without writing a dissertation every day.

And the whole “used to be chubby so now obsessed” thing… or maybe it’s just called maintaining something you worked for. Shocking concept.

If the content feels repetitive, it’s probably because training is repetitive. Turns out running well isn’t built on novelty.

Anyway, if it’s that embarrassing, no one’s forcing you to watch my stuff. Funny how the “monkey performing” still seems to hold your attention though.

Ignore the hate on here Eric (if this is actually you, which I doubt). It’s almost impossible for any YouTuber to please this forum. Even RtJ is beginning to get a lot of stick. The only people who seem to avoid any criticism and get only love are SirPoC, Donato and FOD

I enjoy your videos. Found your journey interesting to watch and lots of people obviously agree.

Id be interested to see you try a different training approach after this marathon though. NSM for example seems perfect for you in theory.

You and FOD are very similar in terms of PBs so some sort of collab with him would be a great watch. Interested to see who clocks the faster marathon between you two in your upcoming races!

RunFasterEatPasta wrote:

Two sense wrote:

Floberg 8x800 today at marathon pace. Ok fine no issues with the workout. Do whatever last time up you want several days out from the big race. But his captions still get me “heart rate so low. So fresh and fit”. He’s literally obsessed with his heart rate and his abs ever since he felt like he isn’t the chubby kid anymore. It’s wild how much he strokes his own ego and how far up his own behind he is.

He is so oblivious to the fact that clearly his low HR is not a flex and honestly isn’t impressive and may actually indicate an overall problem he has. Just embarassing at this point. Grown man performing for social media like a monkey daily and vocabulary only consisting of “core memory, freaking fit, heart rate, love the community”

Funny how “sharing training” suddenly becomes “ego” the second someone is actually consistent and, yes, in good shape. Posting heart rate isn’t some secret flex, it’s just a basic metric. People ask about effort, that’s one way to show it without writing a dissertation every day.

And the whole “used to be chubby so now obsessed” thing… or maybe it’s just called maintaining something you worked for. Shocking concept.

If the content feels repetitive, it’s probably because training is repetitive. Turns out running well isn’t built on novelty.

Anyway, if it’s that embarrassing, no one’s forcing you to watch my stuff. Funny how the “monkey performing” still seems to hold your attention though.

RunFasterEatPasta wrote:

Two sense wrote:

Floberg 8x800 today at marathon pace. Ok fine no issues with the workout. Do whatever last time up you want several days out from the big race. But his captions still get me “heart rate so low. So fresh and fit”. He’s literally obsessed with his heart rate and his abs ever since he felt like he isn’t the chubby kid anymore. It’s wild how much he strokes his own ego and how far up his own behind he is.

He is so oblivious to the fact that clearly his low HR is not a flex and honestly isn’t impressive and may actually indicate an overall problem he has. Just embarassing at this point. Grown man performing for social media like a monkey daily and vocabulary only consisting of “core memory, freaking fit, heart rate, love the community”

Funny how “sharing training” suddenly becomes “ego” the second someone is actually consistent and, yes, in good shape. Posting heart rate isn’t some secret flex, it’s just a basic metric. People ask about effort, that’s one way to show it without writing a dissertation every day.

And the whole “used to be chubby so now obsessed” thing… or maybe it’s just called maintaining something you worked for. Shocking concept.

If the content feels repetitive, it’s probably because training is repetitive. Turns out running well isn’t built on novelty.

Anyway, if it’s that embarrassing, no one’s forcing you to watch my stuff. Funny how the “monkey performing” still seems to hold your attention though.

Trackman132 wrote:

RunFasterEatPasta wrote:

Funny how “sharing training” suddenly becomes “ego” the second someone is actually consistent and, yes, in good shape. Posting heart rate isn’t some secret flex, it’s just a basic metric. People ask about effort, that’s one way to show it without writing a dissertation every day.

And the whole “used to be chubby so now obsessed” thing… or maybe it’s just called maintaining something you worked for. Shocking concept.

If the content feels repetitive, it’s probably because training is repetitive. Turns out running well isn’t built on novelty.

Anyway, if it’s that embarrassing, no one’s forcing you to watch my stuff. Funny how the “monkey performing” still seems to hold your attention though.

On the HR thing, the average might look low, because it's included the baseline at start of rep, but for 800m your HR isn't going to stabilise. The HR at end of rep will be closer to level it will stabilise at, but probably still not there. Average was 150 on the rep but probably 165-170 for purposes of establishing effort level