The Trials and Tribulations of Running YouTubers

Still training under him even after his marathon overtraining disaster

He looks sick. Very gaunt, red eyes and very pale. I'd be surprised if he gets through this block without a bad injury or bout of sickness. Especially as he ignores his coaches pacing recommendations.

you should take notes from floberg. it looks like on strava you are very much over training. where is the sickly looking content? this is why you don't get sponsors. amateur

I forgot his 2:33 was literally 2:33:59 where his muscles started failing in the last 3mi in a race where the WR was shattered. Arguably he was in the same shape for Boston '24 when he ran 2:38 on the Boston course on a warm day. So did he actually build fitness in the second half of 2024? He's gotta run over 9sec/mi faster to go sub 2:30. I don't know where that leap is coming from by March. He might already be done with his big PR's and is now on that slow grind from years of training, building mileage.

To break 3 hours, Kofuzi quit his day job in 2020 to find the time and energy to run 90 miles a week, for a year and a half. And he still needed a 2:40 guy to pace him the entire race.

No one should ever take any advice from Kofuzi. On anything. I would argue, do the opposite of whatever Kofuzi does.

I honestly think Kofuzi holds back to keep up the whole "non-elite" charade. Running too fast could impact the market he's trying to appeal to (middle aged/older runners with disposable income).

To be fair to the bloke, he has been getting over a rough period of flu or norovirus or something, caught over Christmas.

But yeh, the dude seems to get sick, like a lot (I think the Mormon thing probably means he's antivax / anti-flu shot).

You can always check his Strava - he notes down details on every imaginable bodily excretion encountered on his runs. But don't worry though, it's just bants cos there's always a 💩 emoji.

This is correct, that dude is an incredible leech on the sport and must realize this. The fact that he continues to make videos and ‘appearances’, promoting and presenting himself as an authority is that lack of integrity on display. The RIGHT thing to do would be to abruptly stop without any explanation and go hide somewhere. Zero chance that clothes-horse does the right thing however.

Kofuzi enjoys making people mad on LR. He's openly said that that people get pissed at him.

I felt like the top quote at first, then turned into the bottom quote after his Matt Fox (and also SJD) d*ckriding. It's like he's been living under a rock.

Kofuzi isn't a leech on anything. He's a decent bloke who has found a niche and is mildly entertaining. As far as running advice goes, nothing dangerous in it, it's generally ok if you want your advice from a YouTuber. Don't get the hate.

I'm certainly not "pissed" at Kofuzi. I just don't think he's transparent, and I think that's a serious issue. Other reviewers have been more open and honest about the shoe/apparel game. If you give bad reviews you get blacklisted. Although that may seem obvious, I think not disclosing relationships is ethically bankrupt. Kofuzi often doesn't disclose where the product he's reviewing is coming from (brand, retailer, etc.), who's funding his trips, or what his relationship with products/services he's reviewing actually is (quid pro quo, getting paid, etc.). It's intentional. It's guerrilla marketing very similar to the plot of the movie The Joneses.

2 things

1) Floberg isnt mormon

2) mormons are not antivax

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Not dangerous? One of Kofuzi’s most popular video with 175K views “How I Fixed My Runner’s Knee” is an absolute pile of garbage and honestly he should be embarrassed it is still up.

Summer of 2020, Kofuzi ran himself into an overuse injury. Long time Kofuzi watchers will remember, Kofuzi was absolutely terrified of the outside world during that time. Instead of doing the proper thing, like going to a doctor, this guy turned to google to not only diagnose himself (Doctor Kofuzi), but then put together a series of exercises to fix his problem (PT Kofuzi).

Any experienced runner knows, rest is the top thing to do once you get an overuse injury. In the video, he briefly mentions the rest part, but most of the 20 minute video is spent talking about the diagnosis and exercises…the part he has zero, and I mean, zero expertise in.

Why is all this bad? Well, you have 1st time marathoners getting to week 15 of a training plan coming down with overuse injuries, frantically searching for any possible quick fix to salvage the effort they put in coming across this nonsense and thinking this is the solution.

This video, much like everything Kofuzi does, is essentially throwing things at a wall and seeing what sticks.

And if any Kofuzi stans are still not clear, the proper thing to do when getting an injury is to visit a medical professional to get proper testing, and then letting someone who knows what they are talking about guide you to recovery.

He did well with the runners knee. Fair play to him. Fixed it up nicely, some good nuggets of advice in that vid.

Y’all see legit good guy/Youtuber Jamil Coury is running a 360m segment outside a Chipotle in Tempe over and over? See him on Strava. Hopefully there is a video to come. He ran a marathon up and down the segment this morning.

Sounds like a very SJD move. Why is he doing this?

Not dangerous…not aggressive enough to be in any way except for maybe absurdity. He’s just not a runner, but masquerading around as one in the lamest fashion possible in an attempt to gain notoriety even in its most abject sense. Waste of oxygen….kinda like many doctors.