Fitness in Anime is Ridiculous

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[@BaldOmniMan]

2:57 everyone falls prey to Guts’ theme

[@sourikray1993]

There's a Berserk Mural in Elden Ring. Search it on YT 💯

[@its_james_fitness]

I was just about to send you the link to this on Patreon lol

[@Muhammad-ou9wh]

Anime and fitness. BOM: i have been summoned

[@trevor5834]

The media the past 10 years: How are little girl's perception of themselves twisted by Barbie dolls and supermodels? 99% of boys growing up watching anime: I need to be the size of Ronnie Coleman and maybe then I can blow up the moon like Master Roshi did

[@ahmarcamacho8404]

The male experience never sees an ideal and asserts it as unattainable, an unrealistic standard. Apart of us already knows yet we reach anyway

[@JackgarPrime]

And that's why How Heavy Are the Dumbbells You Lift is a very valuable anime!

[@Bjorn_R]

Zack not watching anime is easily top ten anime betrayals. So it was Alex I was a fan of all this time? "You are dead to me Zack"

[@DM7playa]

Omae Wa Mou Shindeiru Zack Kun

[@ManOfEthnicity]

An anime muscle showcase without Lt Colonel Armstrong? Blasphemy!

[@JohnWL]

that scene where he has the pose down with the other guys is hilarious

[@EpicBunty]

also they missed out on MUSCLE REVOLUTION ! scene from Arakawa under the bridge (really funny anime if anyone's into that stuff)

[@micahasher7600]

This is all 30 years old anime. Not 20 something year old anime

[@Whosyourdaddy21]

*gasp*

[@RamseyDewey]

A couple of years ago, at the behest of my viewers, I reviewed some Japanese cartoons. My viewers got super mad at me because I called them “Japanese cartoons” and left hundreds of comments telling me so. They insisted that I call it “anime”. So I looked up the meaning of anime. Do you know what it is? Japanese cartoons.

[@ranaamir9073]

LMAO

[@bakshev]

Heresy.

[@hithro5466]

Wait till they find out what katana means.

[@AveSicarius]

We now also have a Chinese anime industry, so that's a whole other can of worms to open by calling them Chinese cartoons.

[@AveSicarius]

@@hithro5466 It's the same with words in many languages, filo (φύλλο) simply means pastry in Greek, so when people say filo pastry, they are essentially saying "pastry pastry". My recent girlfriend was Greek and anytime I would say something along those lines I would get scolded with "that doesn't make sense, that word doesn't mean what you think it does". I can't imagine what it's like for Japanese people who date Western anime fans.

[@LeylandFoizey]

That's called the "Ocean Dub" of Dragonball Z. It's all different music and actors

[@cpthornman]

Ocean Dub for Saiyan saga was the shit. Especially Vegeta's voice actor. Perfectly matched his sinister personality. The Funimation dubs moving forward after that sage are the best though.

[@TwistedmetalMooP]

@@cpthornman for real! Brian Drummond's screams were life changing 😂

[@freakied0550]

Goku was 5'9'' and and sub 150lbs, typical manlet influencer.

[@perfectshedinja]

Chad Piccolo weighing in at over 250 @7'5".

[@rage6224]

@@perfectshedinja lanklet hardgainer

[@lalithrockz]

Sometimes I feel like Goku is 6 ft then sometimes not.

[@timkenda8203]

At least he wasn't fucking yelling trying to sell me Turkesterone all the time

[@liamengram6326]

@@timkenda8203 Nah. Just yelling for 3 episodes straight to work a fart out.

[@oscarswider]

Armored titan is a reasonable goal body.

[@krombopulos_michael]

Combat titan is a manlet, Armoured titan should be your goal.

[@James_vs_gravity]

i want a thick neck like reiner

[@dmanzawsome]

Tru 0% bodyfat. Get fucked Menzer. Jk love ya.

[@lalithrockz]

Im already at colossal level.

[@hotarias]

0% skin

[@ianAEF]

Now at 29 I realize Goku was a fake natty and dealer

[@lalacoco9985]

As a Japanese bodybuilder, I feel like japanese people disrespecting what we do in the gym and outside the gym. Because of the expression of these kind of absurd muscle mass in the comic and anime, people make fun of our life style, eating, traing, so on.

[@landenx]

That is some good cultural insight, I wonder when that outlook on bodybuilding in Japan started? Keep it up btw :)

[@its_james_fitness]

Zack: I'm not a weab Also Zack: Do not try to contact me mother, for I am binging snacks and watching Dragon Ball

[@JackgarPrime]

Honestly, Dumbbells is legitimately a really funny series with a great message of fitness and the importance of resistance training, aimed at an audience (young japanese girls) that probably isn't likely to normally engage in heavy resistance training due to certain stigma around it.

[@simonsilva250]

That's awesome

[@joelhenderson3723]

And surprisingly, they get most of their information mostly right, from what I remember. I'm sure I could nit pick it to death, but I don't remember any outright bad advice.

[@SmallFry01]

Zack: doesn't watch anime Also Zack: knows everything about every anime

[@hithro5466]

That’s nani in the start was a little too good.

[@WarriorFromV4LH4LL4]

That Berserk music always gives me goosebumps. Fucking love that anime (and manga).

[@JayEmCraft]

Finding out Zack doesn't watch anime -Guts Theme plays

[@zoidsfan12]

I think as a long time berserk fan there is literally nothing more than I could ask for than the "silence wench I don't wish to be horny anymore" to have blown up so much that even people entirely outside the fandom have heard gatsu's theme. Like for a lot of us susumu hirosawas soundtrack is legendary period, but this particular song is like a resonate heart string. It really hits at that introspective mental state where you question your whole life and realize the shit you need to do. There is a whole type of gymbro that is the berserk fan working through their demons in the gym. I know I went through that phase. Bro mad nostalgia from a zack telander let's go dude, I come here to learn and get better and now my favorite manga gets talked about. Let's go dude. Also here is the sin jar for getting a brand of sacrifice tat on my back. Anyone else that has gotten a brand tattoo please put a quarter in.

[@aakashaggarwal685]

I even know a ton of people who started reading/watching berserk because they saw the meme. It's always cool to watch something like that happen.

[@eiric6958]

The detailed monologue in anime helps a lot, most scenes are really wierd without any context.

[@eiric6958]

@@CatNerfer3000 yes

[@thestormtrooperwhocanaim496]

@@CatNerfer3000 yeah hate that. A lot of tell don't show. Very few shows and movies do the "show and not tell the story". I think that's why the Miyazaki films and Akira was pretty good. Maybe 1 min monologue at most. Most of it you got thrown in and hoped to piece it out by the end.

[@yourfather8865]

watching clips from "how heavy are the dumbells you lift" without ANY context must be so confusing

[@tiffanymckoy2748]

It's a great anime!! Not much anime's have an exercise that you can do at the end of the show. And show how to do it properly! Easily in my top 15 anime's!

[@dantearcuri3426]

6:58 I think you mean Tren-zu beans

[@AntoLeNice]

Some people DID try the One Punch Man training. It's the running that fucks you up. You can't run 10km every single days, your joints will fucking crumble.

[@WolfStreak]

When I started watching JoJo, it was the pure awe of how over the top and ridiculous it was that kept me in. They definitely eased up by season 3, but until then, I was hooked on the entertainment of each cheesy pose, reveal, and inner monologue.

[@atg_stickman6716]

Guts theme goes hard after a heavy leg workout

[@multijuegos1315]

Now I want Zack to collab with "the anime trainer" and "JaxBlade" it would be a really fun conversation to have between all 3 of them

[@niatsdoolb]

There's a particularly funny part in Dumbells where the mega buff dude puts on his track suit and shrinks back down to human size, you should see if Alex can find that part for you, freakin hilarious.

[@stephaniemckoy4996]

I loved that series and hope they do a second season. I like how at the end of a episode they do a series of exercises and show you how to do it and then you do the exercises together with them.

[@porsche911CarreraRSR]

Anime isn't really my thing either, but I recently finished Cowboy Bebop (the anime, not live action) and it was incredible.

[@StandStrength]

Physiques in JoJo parts 1-3 just hit different.

[@grunt9950]

Then they all looks like femboys.

[@ws2013]

"How heavy are the dumbells you lift" is a great anime about bodybuilding. I really hope there is an as great one about weightlifting, but damn it gotta be difficult to make, the plot, the audience, everything...

[@stephaniemckoy4996]

That would be cool to me.. I mean you got basketball, baseball, football, soccer, speed climbing, surfing, tennis, skating boarding.. I could go on.. There's one about running that was soo good.

[@RockLuca6]

It's actually funny, the ending note you always put in your videos "No excuses, just improve" is a 100% something you would find in an anime haha. It's just the type of "over the top" advice a sensei would say to their student in one of the series. Maybe try reading Berserk, it's a really good manga and doesn't really dive as heavily into the classic anime/manga tropes. Seriously though the "Eurpoean" medieval vibe of the story is really dominant.

[@CubensisEnjoyer]

Even though you don't watch anime or play video games a lot, I think it's really great that you let your editor do things like that. It's such a small thing but I think a lot of editors out there don't get the opportunity to show themselves through their work, so you're a real one for that. Shout out to Alex too.

[@CameronfDrums]

Goku has had atleast 2-3 voice actors in the last like 40 years. The clip you were watching was probably old

[@WolfStreak]

It was a different dub.

[@COLORMIND.mp4]

Krillin is ideal male form

[@touratomourbekov7956]

When you cry and smile at the same time you look like Pedro Pascal on a bulk

[@luketweddell3559]

Dragon Ball Z is top tier! In the UK it aired on cartoon network back in the late 90’s i used to rush home to watch it with a bowl of cereal 👌🏻 ive even got a dragon ball tattoed on my lat now for the mems 🤓

[@mcfarvo]

Steve Hall of Revive Stronger, is that you? ;)

[@DasBootmaker]

To answer your question about the DBZ voice, the voice in the clips you have were done by a different company, if I remember right it was Ocean studios or something. Then later on, Funimation got the rights and re-dubbed it, and that voice actor has been the guy who’s done it since then, Sean Schemmel. My memory is kind of fuzzy from then but I do remember it being kind of jarring when they just randomly started the series over again on Toonami with the new voice acting

[@McMeatBag]

Part 2 needs My Hero Academia, the Body Improvement Club from Mob Psycho 100, and Major freaking Armstrong from Full Metal Alchemist

[@beansproutuncreative]

Zack!!! My other channel got deleted for copyright strikes, so I've missed SO much of your content. I was sitting down and remembered your amazingness.

[@markgrayson751]

This is the crossover I never wanted to happen, but glad it did.

[@LFC608]

All I learned from this video is that your editor is a man of culture.

[@squatcurldeadlift7346]

"I tried watching it, it's really weird" yeah that's a fair account of jojo

[@CasaBonita1018]

Gokus voice gotta be the Canadian Ocean dub not the now iconic Sean Schemmel from Funimation

[@alistermcmurray7148]

That chick from the Baki is actually Abadzhiev

[@ORIGNALRECIPE]

Imma need to see zack react to the current Baki, tryna see his reaction to biscuit ball 😂😂

[@throwsbear4334]

7:31 it’s just a different dub. There has been many

[@MellonVegan]

DBZ had several English dubs. There's one that everybody knows with the different music and such. You probably watched that one. Speaking of the soundtrack, American audiences are probably the only ones not knowing the songs from the original version.

[@olivermountjoy6069]

this is totally possible you just need to try harder, no juice required

[@HIMCULES]

I see nothing extraordinary, I walk around like that all the time..

[@gab4tac]

Zack you need to watch the original Berzerk anime series from 97, it's a masterpiece.

[@omarmohammad6430]

This is awesome- but be careful, Japan be crazy with the copyright strikes

[@flyntfoster3416]

That’s Ocean Dub Baby! The good old days! It was a different studio before funimation, I believe.

[@aavila1206]

For DBZ you’re watching the Canadian Ocean dub which Funimation originally went with before they did their own in-house anime dubbing for English which is the now most popular voice actors and soundtrack you know of.

[@Ratchetti]

My boy looking like he woke up 5 mins ago.

[@brogrammer1995]

That outro killed me lmao

[@Blobbyo25]

Baki is a totally realistic anime.

[@EpicBunty]

ur comment got stolen dude :'(

[@Blobbyo25]

@@EpicBunty I was the third comment... Ah well I think theirs was better worded anyway. Just a comment :)

[@geeklord1]

There are 2 major DBZ dubs. The Ocean Dub which played in the US and Canada till part way through the Frieza saga. The Funnimation dub is the newest dub and the one that played all the way through

[@timhamilton5699]

One Punch Man sounds like Army paratrooper physical training in the 2000s!

[@timhamilton5699]

If you know, then you know.

[@hdxgamin3918]

Beserk soundtrack makes everything so epic

[@LucasDimoveo]

You need to get on that AoT wave. Eren vs. Armored Titan, Eren vs. Female Titan, and Levi (vs everyone)

[@pilot.wav_theory]

the thing where the girl sees a mountain while arm wrestling is actually a Baki reference. Baki is an OG manga at this point lots of homages in other series

[@jamcivale6310]

Need to have one of these videos for eyeshield 21 the things shin sama does for workouts is always over the top

[@carl0sTribuna]

Just missed the Oliver and Tsubasa football series

[@axeloverstad7383]

Needs a part 2 with the swimming scene from Golden Boy and the training montage from Gunbuster

[@joshuadang1631]

DBZ was also on channel 12 when I was a kid

[@mconcepcion752]

That's the Ocean Dub for the Dragonball Z clip, which is why it sounds different. The dub you are uses to is the Funimation dub.

[@boluaygepong5920]

Zack: "just a 31 year old man, reacting to some cartoons"... Anime Fan Boi: !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@francoisstrength]

Im so happy you made this

[@Big_Vasia]

Alex isnt just a weeb hes OUR weeb

[@julien2983]

This was lots of fun, got to have Hokuto no Ken on the next episode!

[@alejandrovazquez2867]

7:20 Dragon Ball has several different English dubs out. I'm don't know which dub this one is but you're probably thinking of Sean Schemmel.

[@davidkymdell452]

What he's saying about Baki is especially true for Baki though, like almost more than any other anime. Especially the latest stuff.

[@2thirds]

I mean JoJo isn't that weird, at most it's a tad bizzare

[@happyhopper]

MOAR!

[@deancupini9925]

The DBZ English dub is different based on the company releasing it at the time. Like Saban or 4kids or Funimation.

[@DredFulProductions]

This is the content I subbed for

[@clap5]

Bro age isn't a factor in fun...I love anime and i'm "old". You would like How Heavy are the Dumbells you lift? and My Hero Acidemia

[@brenm3835]

I appreciate that youre not a gamer or a weeb. Im not one either. Vibe

[@its_james_fitness]

I really enjoyed this dude 🤣👌👍

[@scottessery100]

They do look like Clarence to be honest

[@daddystired]

Ouch my dragon balls

[@helrasol4159]

The hype i got when i saw elden ring in the backround was almost sickening. But im not here for that. You do you Zack

[@BrenoviskxD]

baki physiology is top tier ! Sincronicity

[@nuperer]

Zack, u rock!

[@micahasher7600]

If I’m not mistaken Akira toriyama based gokus physique from Arnold, and other saiyans inspired by different bodybuilders like Ronnie

[@Tan12]

There's two different English dubs of DBZ, you're probably used to the other with Sean Schemmel as Goku. As are most people who watched DBZ in the US.

[@Ostrolphant]

I believe the voice for Goku being different is Ocean Dub versus Funimation dub.

[@csongorarpad4670]

NUH UH, ZACKIE-BOY!! It's called anime and is anime. Calling it japanese is REDUNDANT because anime is inherently japanese. Therefore, calling it japenese CARTOON is TYPICAL of somebody of your stature, that is, a NORMIE and an UNCULTURED DUCK! Go back to your Ducktales and BatM'AM, ZACKY, before you end up on the wrong end of my KATANA, which is NOT a japanese curved sword or whatever other uncultured terminology you might use! IT. IS. A. KATANA. and it's very sharp so be careful...

[@Ratchetti]

There were at least two different companies who did the voice over for dbz in US

[@Auddy07]

That's the Ocean Dub of DBZ, that's why it sounds different.

[@sykeselyks]

That first reaction to machio is the only reason you need to start watching anime 😂

[@ShinSuperSaiyajin]

if Ippo was there, Alex should have had Takamura boxing against the bear!

[@twowiseguys666]

I'm just disappointed Toguro didn't make the cut here... iconic delts

[@springheeljak145]

My goal body is Toguro from Yu Yu Hakusho

[@Someguy676]

Why not include Hajimne No Ippo?

[@zachdohdohbird9624]

I know I'm late, but: Trenzu Beans

[@kevinhammack3915]

dragon ball z was the first tes booster I ever took...also I think heard the voice actors are different on the japanese vs american produced episodes or something

[@jakubteper9132]

Not just a rugby match He killed his dog

[@ashmerch2558]

different dubs done during different time periods and different networks... your probably used too the Bruce Falconer Dub vs the Funimation Dub

[@Mrdest211]

Pretty sure the long monologues are meant to save on animation showing what is being said.

[@TF-iz4my]

Berserk rules so hard. I hate every other anime

[@timkenda8203]

Senzu beans = Anadrol Nevermind, halotestin, too short acting. Also I love the fact that Goku was literally a steroid dealer

[@LucasDimoveo]

We need some AoT abs to round this whole thing out