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Happy Friday, Coach J here from Anyman Fitness – and welcome to the latest edition of The N.W.A. Newsletter.

Each week with the N.W.A. Newsletter, I give you the best Nutrition, Weightlifting, and/or Attitude advice for you to start to use in your life today.

Tens of thousands of people have used this exact newsletter to gain muscle, lose fat, and become a better version of themselves…

Without any further ado, let’s get started..

N.W.A. Tip Of The Week

Social media is like the Wild, Wild West.

You can say whatever you want to say, with no repercussions.

You can make wild (and untrue) claims about fitness.

There are pretty much no parameters, as long as you’re not threatening other people with bodily harm.

As such, sometimes it can be difficult to know who to trust.

I’ve had to separate the “wheat” from the “chaff” myself in this regard.

Eons ago, when I was trying to get into proper shape, I had to learn how to navigate social media properly.

If you follow the wrong people, and take the wrong advice at face value, it can cause serious issues.

There’s gurus out there claiming vegetables are bad for you.

Yes, vegetables… I’m not making that up.

I have a few, personal rules for social media usage when it comes to fitness.

There are some “Red Flags” to look for.

If you see any fitness personality out there saying a claim with one of these Red Flags, you should unfollow the immediately.

They don’t know what they’re talking about, and they’re just trying to sell you something.

Red Flag #1: They claim there is one cause to obesity.

Obesity is a multi-faceted disease.

There are hundreds of factors (if not more) as to why we are collectively gaining weight over time.

There’s some sort of a combination of the following factors creating the obesity epidemic:

Processed foods
Environmental factors
Genetic factors
Lack of movement/exercise
Lack of nutritional awareness

But if you ever see a guru out there claiming “sugar is making us fat”.

Or “seed oils are making us fat”.

Or “high fructose corn syrup” or “carbs” or “fruit”…

Run for the hills.

There isn’t just one factor to obesity; thinking this is preposterous, and incorrect.

Red Flag #2: They are selling a book or product about Red Flag #1.

It’s hilarious how many times this plays out.

If I see a guru with all sorts of dubious claims about “seed oils causing obesity”, I check out their social media bio.

And wouldn’t you know it – they’re selling a book/ebook titled “The Seed Oil Solution”.

It’s a story as old as time.

They’re trying to get you all worked up into a tizzy, fearful for your health, and they’re hoping you buy their book to solve your “problem”.

Upton Sinclair famously said, “You cannot expect a man to understand a subject when his income depends on the subject.”

Well said, Upton, well said.

Avoid these people like the plague, they’re snake oil salesmen and nothing more.

Red Flag #3: They exclusively use fear based marketing tactics on social media.

We’re all trying to help people.

But there’s something slimy about constantly barraging your audience with fear-based marketing tactics.

“This one food will kill you.”

“This one food will make you fat.”

“This one food will give you cancer.”

“This one food will…”

Generally, these types of fear-based gurus will be selling their brand of organic supplements to “cleanse your liver” or your “toxins”.

Same as Red Flags #1 and #2, the “it will give you cancer” crowd will inevitably be trying to peddle his/her “antidote” for whatever ails you.

This is a shady practice.

Be sure to look the other way.

If you’d like to know the carcinogens known to humans, and their classifications and/or level of harm they cause, here’s a link from cancer.org.

That list will be much more useful than some guru who watched one YouTube video and then made a social media profile.

Red Flag #4: Unrealistic fat loss timeframes for their clients.

We’ve all seen them.

You’re scrolling Instagram and you see a wild transformation picture.

And you see a claim that someone’s client lost 73 pounds in 3 months.

Is this possible to do in a healthy manner?

Maybe… but it’s doubtful…

You can safely lose an absolute maximum of 2% of your bodyweight each week without risking muscle loss.

That number also assumes you’re eating about 1 gram of protein for each pound of lean body mass and you’re resistance training with intensity 3-4 times per week.

But that number is theoretical.

You would have to create a whoppingly large calorie deficit in order to do it.

If you see someone with a massive – and fast – transformation like this, there’s a good chance it’s either A) fake or B) accomplished by unsafe or unpractical means.

In other words, the person basically starved themselves to death while exercising non-stop for the entire duration.

I’ve seen clients lose up to 45 pounds in 3 months doing things the right way.

That is about the maximum fat loss I’ve seen from our clients, and it only happens when someone has a lot of weight to lose and does everything perfectly for 3 months (and I have coached thousands).

Anything over that would raise my eyebrows.

Photoshop and AI are everywhere.

As are simply lying… perhaps this person made the transformation in a year, and their coach is claiming it took 3 months in order to sell their services.

And if it was accomplished in such a short time frame, there’s a good chance they didn’t learn appropriate and sustainable habits.

They just stopped eating and killed themselves with activity, and somehow survived the ordeal.

Social media and the internet can be a wonderful thing.

But you have to know what to look for, and what to avoid as well.

Use this advice as a guideline as you scroll.

If you see anyone who sets off any of these “Red Flags”, you know what to do.

September-13-2025

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