Today I’m talking to Scott Herman, a trainer, BSN athlete, influencer, and founder of MuscularStrength.com. Scott was one of the first mainstream fitness influencers on YouTube and built out one of the internet’s first real video instructional libraries. Scott and I catch up on his background as a reality TV star, how fitness on the internet has evolved, and what he thinks is most misleading in the fitness industry.
I want to give a big shout out to this episode’s sponsor, BSN. BSN has been around for nearly 20 years, and they’re a global leader in sports nutrition. For their protein powder — including their partnership line with Cold Stone Creamery — to preworkout, protein bars, and more, BSN has won more than 35 sports nutrition awards over the last few years. (My personal favorite of their flavors? The Birthday Cake Remix Syntha-6. I literally hid some in my desk to keep the rest of the BarBend team from using it all.)
In this episode of the BarBend Podcast, David Thomas Tao talks to Scott Herman about:
- Scott’s background in fitness (and springboarding from reality TV) (2:27)
- The part of NYC Scott can never forget (6:58)
- How Scott became one of YouTube’s first fitness stars — and why YouTube used to be “a much nicer place” (10:07)
- How can I help people get excited about exercising? (14:29)
- Fast forward to the current landscape of fitness videos (15:10)
- Why getting the body of XYZ actor is so much more complex than how magazines might portray it (17:44)
- What celebrity trainers get wrong, in Scott’s opinion (23:05)
- Scott’s approach to quarantine training (27:10)
- The impact of de-training (28:05)
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