Nick Symmonds announces he is a pro athlete again (& he's starting a 30-day body transformation challenge)

Porky T wrote:

This has got me thinking even more about Instagram Influencers. They're not really professional anythings. They're Sales and Marketing contractors.

For example, Nick is now working as a Marketing Assistant for Gymshark. It's great, but it's the online version of handing out leaflets on the high street. It's fine, its a job that needs doing, but it's not a professional sportsman or athlete. It's not even sponsorship.

If McDonalds gave me an inflatable Ronald MacDonald outfit to go around town and say how good the burgers are, I'm not an influencer. I'm not "sponsored" by McDonalds. I'm not a catering professional. I'm not creating any products. It's just doing someone else's marketing for them.

I agree with everything you say! I just think the brands have always wanted influencers instead of athletes - it's just that no one had come up with the job of "influencer" 15 years ago. As far as running companies are concerned, they can get at least 80% of the marketing value of an elite athlete from a savvy influencer. Hell, the influencer might cost the company less than the athlete, while providing more bottom-line value to the company.

My point is, to companies, influencers are exactly what they need. Many athletes are missing a lot of the marketing savvy that makes influencers valuable to companies.

nick don't let me down wrote:

ready made wrote:

Nick has to get paid, what else is he doing for money?

That doesn't really get at the substance of my post. I quite understand that people need to provide for themselves, and that often can bring up moral conflicts. Earning a living without doing harm can often be difficult to do, let alone define. And even if we could agree what doing no harm was, no one is required to earn a living that way. Other than doctors, right?

I'm just saying, I think the way he has chosen to make a living, in this particular case, has the potential to do harm.

He's not exactly making a positive contribution to society, he might as well be pushing CBD or stripping. I have far more respect for mechanics, dishwashers, and garbage men.

Since Nick's latest spam post here has nothing to do with running, let's talk about that wife:

https://www.instagram.com/p/B4h4pRhnDyV/?hl=en

She's soccer mom hot, but trying to be more thus the disgusting sleeve tat and insta fitness model "career". I hope they never have kids.

I lost respect for Nick when he cut open that pair of Vaporflys. Disgustingly wasteful. Did he realize how many African children he could have fed with those shoes?!?!?! Shameful human being who doesn't care about poor kids all over the world.

Falcon Heene wrote:

Since Nick's latest spam post here has nothing to do with running, let's talk about that wife:

https://www.instagram.com/p/B4h4pRhnDyV/?hl=en

She's soccer mom hot, but trying to be more thus the disgusting sleeve tat and insta fitness model "career". I hope they never have kids.

It's not his wife, he says that she is his "fiancé." It's the longest engagement in history. He has more pictures of him with fish on his instagram than with her but who could blame him, that sleeve is God awful. She's just a prop anyway, just like Paris Hilton was. He doesn't want people to question his sexuality so they stick with the story.

I just checked out the Gym Shark website out of curiousity. The front page features a girl in their clothes wearing Converse All-Stars...that alone immediately discredits them as a legitamite fitness brand as everyone knows that no serious athlete would ever work out in Converse shoes like that. The next page I clicked on featured a very fat, unathletic looking woman wearing a crop top and leggings...once again, not doing a good job selling themselves as a legitate brand for athletes here. I don't want to see fat women in crop tops nor does that model make we want to buy those clothes.

Sick Nymmonds wrote:

Falcon Heene wrote:

Since Nick's latest spam post here has nothing to do with running, let's talk about that wife:

https://www.instagram.com/p/B4h4pRhnDyV/?hl=en

She's soccer mom hot, but trying to be more thus the disgusting sleeve tat and insta fitness model "career". I hope they never have kids.

It's not his wife, he says that she is his "fiancé." It's the longest engagement in history. He has more pictures of him with fish on his instagram than with her but who could blame him, that sleeve is God awful. She's just a prop anyway, just like Paris Hilton was. He doesn't want people to question his sexuality so they stick with the story.

Meh. And you can quote me on that.

Wow, I was just shaking my head through that whole thing. If he hadn't pretended he's gonna be a pro athlete again and was just announcing a new business venture as a social media advertiser that'd be one thing. but the whole "i'm a pro athlete again" thing is cringe-worthy.

He can be a sponsored athlete of rungum, his own company. There.

Sick Nymmonds wrote:

Could we please get this image up as the quote of the day/week/year stat!?

https://imgur.com/esyCYWp

My man! Nick HOP Symmonds.

Nick "House of Pancakes" Symmonds

Not wife. Fiance. Works in Marketing also, I believe, which is prolly how they met.

Gymshark, where credibility goes to die in all things sports and fitness related.

critic 100 wrote:

I love the way someone gets on the website and says anyone can be a professional athlete.

How about the 5'5" 190lb pound fat 20 something guy. Does genetics play a part in any of this?