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A film about the pursuit of the ideal #mannenlichaam , and when sport turns into addiction. Train, eat, drag, repeat. Is the life of a fitboy healthy? Experts warn against addiction and overtraining. “Fitness can be an assassin.”
JayJay Boske, former professional rugbyer and presenter, appeared on the cover of Men's Health with bare upper body in 2017. Seven kilos of muscle in half a year. He looks back on it with a double feeling. It was not a very realistic example, for the 263,000 subscribers of its YouTube channel Day1.
Many of his followers are young boys. “90 percent of my videos won't help them.” For these guys he has now made a beginner's guide (with shirt on), about nutrition and training with Men's Health. And a video, in which he shows “how bad it sometimes is”, “what's wrong in the fitness industry”. “I am also responsible for it myself,” he says.
His video is about young boys who want to go “from shelf to cabinet” as quickly as possible and unaccompanied, with schedules of top athletes, overweight weights and expensive supplements, in the gym. Boske outlines the consequences: injuries and overtraining. But also loneliness, depression, fatigue, not being well in your skin. “Sport is good, we have always been told. But it could also be an assassin.”
Fitness is the biggest sport in the Netherlands and is still growing. A quarter of all Dutch people go to the gym every week. That's what you can call — at a time when half of the Dutch people are too heavy — profit. Among young people between 12 and 18 years of age, only football is more popular. The largest fitness chain, Basic-Fit, has 180 Dutch branches alone. Due to their size and low rates, it is also the budget gyms, such as Basic-Fit or Fit for Free, that attract most young people.
Fitness is a wide sport: zumba and body jam are also fitness. But guys you see in the gym mainly engaged in strength training.
JayJay Boske, former professional rugbyer and presenter, appeared on the cover of Men's Health with bare upper body in 2017. Seven kilos of muscle in half a year. He looks back on it with a double feeling. It was not a very realistic example, for the 263,000 subscribers of its YouTube channel Day1.
Many of his followers are young boys. “90 percent of my videos won't help them.” For these guys he has now made a beginner's guide (with shirt on), about nutrition and training with Men's Health. And a video, in which he shows “how bad it sometimes is”, “what's wrong in the fitness industry”. “I am also responsible for it myself,” he says.
His video is about young boys who want to go “from shelf to cabinet” as quickly as possible and unaccompanied, with schedules of top athletes, overweight weights and expensive supplements, in the gym. Boske outlines the consequences: injuries and overtraining. But also loneliness, depression, fatigue, not being well in your skin. “Sport is good, we have always been told. But it could also be an assassin.”
Fitness is the biggest sport in the Netherlands and is still growing. A quarter of all Dutch people go to the gym every week. That's what you can call — at a time when half of the Dutch people are too heavy — profit. Among young people between 12 and 18 years of age, only football is more popular. The largest fitness chain, Basic-Fit, has 180 Dutch branches alone. Due to their size and low rates, it is also the budget gyms, such as Basic-Fit or Fit for Free, that attract most young people.
Fitness is a wide sport: zumba and body jam are also fitness. But guys you see in the gym mainly engaged in strength training.
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