The Influence of Sam Sulek is Worse Than you Think

If you have been in the fitness community in the last month, you probably have heard of Sam Sulek

With his millions of followers across different platforms, Sam became more than just a fitness influencer

He became a phenomenal. One of the biggest ingredient of his success is his difference with other popular faces in the niche

And while a new spark in the community is great, it usually comes along with its bad side

But what makes him so different? Our story begins in 2002 in Ohio

Sam had a pretty common childhood and wasn't first into lifting but rather diving

which he started at the age of eight. And even then, he already portrayed really great genetics when he comes to bodybuilding

After school, he apparently started an engineering degree in mechanics. And he was also working as a road painter

At the age of 19 years old, he switched his focus to weightlifting, which he fell in love with and made an incredible transformation in only two years

He is now sitting at 240 pounds at the height of 5.11

which is absolutely astonishing in such a short amount of time. He became famous by posting videos of his training

talking to the camera with no editing and pretty long videos. And you would think that such content wouldn't work on YouTube, but quite the opposite happened

He mainly started blowing up on TikTok, which transferred to YouTube pretty quickly

He was making millions of views per video, creating a strong fan base in the process

His audience is mostly made of young teenagers, which explains his influence over his fans

As I said, his video don't contain any editing, news or information

So his contents only revolves about something else, which is his personality

He portrays a very relaxed and laid-down personality, which contrasts a lot with other big faces in the fitness industry

This difference in energy would create a breath of fresh air to the audience, which explained his sudden explosion on social media

Due to the nature of his content, the viewer really feels like Sam is talking to them, creating an emotional connection with his persona, which explains the returning viewers after he blew up

That is also, in my opinion, why I think Sam Sulek has a lot of parasocial interaction, which is the theme describing the fact that viewers thinking their friend or

close to the person they watching regularly Having your content specifically about your personality comes with good and bad side As I said on the bright side your fan base will watch your content regardless of its nature

which gives a lot of freedom to the content creator. But the tradeback is that people will love or hate you for what you are

and it's much more difficult to manage your influence and take the critics

when it's only about you and not what you are posting. His body transformation is absolutely incredible

But even if it doesn't take away the effort he put in to achieve such results

It is undeniable that his transformation wasn't achieved naturally. He doesn't really talk about the subject, probably because he doesn't want to badly influence his young audience

But even so, the fact is that he still promotes steroids to a certain extent

You just need to look at his comment section. The comments on his TikTok aren't much better either, which pretty much every single comment taught about trend in different cycles

On Reddit, and even in real life, some people heavily consider taking steroids even being really young

Once, sir, time to look. Why? I like the physique. I like the shoulders. Would you ever take steroids

Probably. I want to get big. Oh, you would? I get big. Yeah. You want to look like Sam because, and that's why

Yes. You would? Yes. Would you take steroids? Or do you have any plans of going to the dark side

MK 67 and Rad 140, they're maybe on the agenda. On that same video, Jesse has the chance to interview some sort

And he asked what his life motor is. I'm curious, what is your motto for your fans

Like, something that you could leave with them. Would you mind taking a guess on what that could be? It's only two words

I'm going to say, do your cardio. That's one too. Get big

Get big. If you can consolidate everything down to two words, it's just get big. I mean, let's be real

Is that your life motto? I probably agree. This message can easily be interpreted to his young audience by

I Need to Get Big no matter the cost, even if it means taking steroids

The fact is that he doesn't want to feel good or be healthy, but rather look good

which is a philosophy that he preached to his audience. You can even compare it to anorexie in young girls who adapt terrible bad habits in the objective of losing weight

The problem is that some can truly say something. else to his audience because he is himself on the objective to get big as possible without considering his health I think this is heavily related to self and insecurities but more on that later Also part of his audience tend to focus their life only about building muscle

and therefore neglecting other areas in life. But this is a problem that existed long before Sam Sulek

Sam Suleck also democratized the use of steroids. You see, most informed people about steroids in the fitness industry

are telling people for years that it isn't worsted taking PD, except if you have a nearly perfect diet and training, you have a few years of lifting

behind you, you are getting near your natural potential, and you have serious objective

of competing and bodybuilding. But Sam Sulek is quite the opposite of that

So as a result, his large audience will get the idea that it is okay to take steroids

sooner than they actually should, and for the wrong reasons. But why is his diet and training not optimal

Well, based on the video of Jeff Nippert on the subject, who is a fitness influencer

who knows way more than I do about optimal training, muscle hypertrophy and strength

His training could be improved on three things, which are his form, his training plant and split

I put a link to the video in the description if you want to watch it after and have the full details, but if not I will resume it for you

His form could be better to optimize muscle growth. It doesn't need to be extremely strict, but improving it a bit could help him build more muscle

Secondly, he doesn't have a structure plan. He planned his session in his car before going to the gym, which makes it a lot harder to track your progress and use progressive overloads

And finally, he used the Bro-Splits, which doesn't have the best reputation for the gym. each muscle group. Also, in his weight to get bigger, he adapted his diet to fit his

macro-nutrients. But not in the way you would think. He claims that as long as the food

fits his macro, it doesn't matter which food he eats, which seems right on the paper

but the reality is far different. You see, even if two foods have the same amount of calories

and macronutrients, it doesn't mean that your body will react it the same way. And that

for many two reasons. First, the volume. If you consume a low calorie to volume food

your stomach will be full in much less calories than if you eat the opposite like fast food

Which means that for the same amount of calories for a day the healthier version of that diet will make you feel full but the unhealthy version will probably make you hungry just because your stomach is half Secondly outside from the volume the type of food you eat greatly influence your energy

level through the day. It is no secret that most people feel bloated and tired after a fast food, which can be the case

for healthier foods. And his diet combined with steroids is probably one of the biggest reasons for his acne

which is something that is visible, but we can't know how bad he actually feels inside

his body. Honestly, I don't really watch some videos. But from what I've seen, he really seems like a genuine cool guy, which is why people

liking, and I'm not criticizing him as a person at all. He made a lot of people start going to the gym, which is great and I'm all for it

The problem, like many, is that they have other consequences to his fame

But that's the thing. Because he shows himself to the fullest, some of his audience see only the positive in everything

he's doing. And I don't think some can do a lot about it. For example, if he wants to tell his audience that they shouldn't take steroids, except if they

have a nearly perfect training and diet, and they want to compete in bodybuilding, and they they want to compete in bodybuilding, he should be in that case too, but he's not

You cannot tell people not to do something while you are doing the complete opposite

I also think he wants to get as big as possible because he is a bit insecure

When you think about it, he started going to the gym consistently not a long time ago

And maybe he will realize later that getting big isn't the only purpose you should have in life

And when and if he will get to that point, he might regret all the unhealthy choices he made along the way

to achieve something that isn't as important to him anymore. mind that the guy is only 21 and it's impossible to him to have the fitness maturity than

other older fitness influencers have, who have been in fitness for years now

But can you really blame a young guy that just shares what he likes? What we do here is go back, back, back, back, back, back