Why Weight Lifting is a Waste of Time | Dr. John Jaquish | TEDxMayfieldHS

This is the worst TED Talk I have ever seen! I did not and still don't have an opinion about weight lifting because he just rambled and went off on tangents without ever getting to--much less, supporting--what's asserted in the title. 🤷 Until I watched this, I always trusted the TED Talk "brand" as a worthwhile investment of my time, but now I'm likely to skip most (all?) of it's future videos because I don't want to waste another 18 minutes. I can only assume this indicates that their quality standards have changed for the worse.

This author did his "PhD" at Rushmore University, which is a known unaccredited diploma mill (see Wikipedia)

Writing a book called "Weightlifting is a Complete Waste Of Time" is a click bait title that opens up a very large can of worms. So, apparently what he is saying is that the Champion's like Sandow, Charles Atlas, Vince Gironda, Dave Draper, Steve Reeves, John Grimick, Frank Zane, Bill Pearl, Brad Harris, Gordon Scott, and quite a few other's wasted their time in the weight room? And would have made their strength and fitness goals, including for some, bodybuilding contests and titles, using rubber bands? That is laughable. And besides how laughable it is, the claim that "weightlifting is a complete waste of time" HE HAS NEVER PROVED THAT! And the claim runs against a whole history of bodybuilding and physician culture. Oh, and by the way, the people I mentioned were not on TRT.

Important note: TEDx is NOT the same thing as a standard TED talk. A speaker at a regular TED talk is invited to speak and the event is sponsored by TED's leadership because they feel that the guest's knowledge is important to give a platform to. A TEDx talk, on the other hand, is TED lending only their name and platform to a paying speaker. John Jaqueef himself PAID MONEY to TED to make an advertisement disguised as a TED talk, in order to lend it a facade of credibility. The pay-to-play nature of TEDx is the reason why TED lost its prestige and popularity, almost immediately after the "x" option was launched. Whenever you see TEDx, just know that whoever is speaking is selling this idea to you all on their own. It's nothing more than a commercial for themselves. .......Thanks for coming to my TED talk.

Stay in the gym guys, weight lifting and exercise is great for body and mind 👍🏻👍🏻 lowers c reactive protein levels and energizes the physiological chemistry of the body (hormones, neurotransmitters, etc) Cheers everyone 👍🏻

Whatever his angle may be, claiming that weight training doesn't do anything is just gaslighting. A mountebank if I ever saw one.

Con artist. He just paid them to use the empty room to make a video. He feels that standing in front of the logo gives him credibility and had a friend record him then inserted a clapping soundtrack at the end. This guy does test and claims he fasts and does carnivore and if you look at his social media he legit filters and retouches every photo. NOTHING wrong with resistant bands, when you are training for years and add in a few workouts a week of high reps you can stimulate muscle but to believe you can build muscle with just bands having never weight trained is asinine and shows he is just a con man selling a product.

Such an expert at over complicating things in an insane attempt to re-invent the wheel. LOL "Just shut up and lift"

LMFAO AT CHEST INSERTIONS AT THE ELBOW. brb flying squirrel status

For everyone curious about this guy, what he's claiming, what he's up to, and whether he's a "DOCTOR", I recommend searching on YouTube for ""Weight Lifting is a WASTE of Time" - Reaction to "Dr." John Jaquish"

I don't think you will find any human with pectoral muscles attached near their elbows. That would be very freakish. Some will have their attachment a bit further down the humerus, sure, but not that far. Athletic elites are that way for a number of reasons, not just due to this very unnatural pec-insertion-near-the-elbow business. Also, the pectorals originate at both the sternum and the clavicle, not just the sternum. This "recycled energy" is called the myotatic response, or stretch reflex by exercise professionals.

I just started working out in the last 6 - 8 months. I'm a 50 soon to be 51 year old woman and I'm seeing results, slowly but I'm seeing it. I have remained consistent and I've improved my diet and sleep. He's trying to sell something, but I ain't buying it.

Kettlebells are EVERYWHERE! If using a kettlebell is a “fad”, it is the longest fad ever. They are VERY effective! But, not the only way. Just like sandbag work. They are a tool to use. Variable resistance is also just a tool.

Oh would you look at that, apparently lifting weights is bad, even though mankind has been doing it forever, and now we have the guy with THE solution. Naturally, he’s selling the solution, so no conflict of interests….i mean he’s a salesman, so you know that everything he says is on the up and up.

Certainly did good with coming up with a stellar click bait name for his book and presentation. Variable resistance as he is talking about it is great, but that doesn’t meant “regular weight lifting” is a waste of time in terms of building strength and hypertrophy and all the health befits that come with it. I like a combination of resistance bands, calisthenics, kettle bells and “weight lifting”. In terms of the pec major on certain gifted athletes being attached far down on the humerus as he pointed, I would be very interested to actually see this. In my 24 years as an orthopedic massage therapist have never seen a body like that or heard of someone with attachments that far off the crest of greater tubercle of humerus. I feel he greatly over simplifies why people are not getting the results they want when working out. He says, everyone’s workout sucks and doesn’t work, and now i know why. Granted he only has limited amount of time in his presentation, but I feel like he is also presenting with a bias toward his own products. I use variable resistance training a lot, but not solely. When I move logs into my truck, do a lot of chainsaw work, etc, those objects are always the same weight throughout the movement, just like free weights.

Anyone else remember back when Ted talks were more than infomercials for dodgy products?

I did some quick searching and you can easily get those loads on your lower body bones from running. If you engage in jumping you can get to even higher loads. So the claim that you can't get those loads on your bones without special equipment is clearly nonsense. I don't know what loads you'd need on smaller bones, e.g. in the arms, to stimulate bone growth, but it must clearly be much less than four times your body weight, because even children probably aren't putting such huge loads on their arm bones.

The people who see no change need a knowledge update

From the TED website, so who knows, but this is what they say: "TED Conferences are organized and run directly by TED. TEDx events are fully planned and coordinated independently, on a community-by-community basis. The goal of TEDx is to inspire a passion for spreading ideas in local communities from within."

Very quiet audience?! Weight training has changed my life at 55 for the better. Best thing ever