Yung Chomsky is the producer of the TrueAnon podcast ‪@TrueAnonPod‬, creator of the mobile app Phomo, and a natural athlete with 16 years of experience.

We discuss his personal journey of learning to lift online while exploring exercise subcultures via forums and message boards. We sort the facts from fictions and discuss the tenuous connections between weight lifting and far right politics. This is the lifting episode. We’re all gonna make it.

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0:00 Intro
0:43 Leaning to lift online
10:36 Stepping into the gym
18:43 Message board culture
25:15 Lifetime PRs
32:28 IRL community & politics
40:36 Steroids vs. genetics
48:57 Hypertrophy, bulking & cutting
59:17 The value of hard work?
1:07:26 Fake exercises on social media
1:15:34 Birthday squats
1:19:48 Does lifting make you right-wing?