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Last week we talked about Powerexplosive in our review of most important influencers in Spain And this time we return to analyze what is undoubtedly another of the leaders of the fitness community in Spain due to the great community it has and the health message that it spreads on the networks and that has so far permeated.

Sergio does not have such technical and performance-focused content as our friend Power, since his content is not focused on people who want to perform, but rather seeks to get ordinary people to embrace a healthy life style where movement and real and little processed food prevail.

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Before opening his YouTube channel, Sergio Peinado was dedicated to personal training working in a gym, however his physical condition was not at all optimal not only to carry out his professional activity but for anyone. Sergio was significantly overweight and despite the fact that he had the knowledge to change his health and physical condition, he had a relationship with food that prevented him from achieving his goals. In this video you can learn more about his story and how he managed to change his mentality to obtain a physical change that makes you improve your appearance and especially your health.

A large part of Sergio’s secret is that he is a person with whom many people can easily identify and he does not sell a lifestyle in which to achieve significant health and physical improvements, you have to follow a perfect diet and routine. Peinado understands that the majority of the population does not have time to eat in a complex way or for long training sessions, so his proposal is based on a selection of healthy foods in simple recipes and quick workouts that can be done at home with very little equipment.

Since 2011, when he opened his channel, he has uploaded videos on quite a variety of topics, denying myths in the world such as that fats are harmful or that eating carbohydrates in the afternoon makes you have more fat. An important part of its content are fast routines such as abs in 7 minutes or chest in 15 minutes. Thanks to this close approach that empathizes with his followers, he has managed to get thousands of people to increase their physical activity and improve their health. They also highlight their videos of physical transformations within their fitness community, both theirs and their clients who inspire others to achieve their own physical change. Sergio, like anyone else, has peaks in shape and tells us how he gets back into shape once he has lost it.

Sergio offers courses and training methods through Fuertafit, through whose courses and fitness community his clients learn how to lead a healthy life and obtain amazing physical changes at a very affordable cost.

Some values of closeness, without promising things that are not possible and without selling you the magic supplement, together with an undeniable charisma and his ability to communicate, mean that Sergio has penetrated deeply into the fitness community in Spain without having the most spectacular physique in the world. . Precisely for this reason, many people identify with it and like to know how a real person leads a fitness lifestyle. His travel video blogs are also very popular, how he spends the holidays and his more personal facet. We have Sergio for a while and we want to keep it that way.

Greetings and we’ll be back next week!

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Where does this ranking of Fitness influencers come from and why we do it

The ranking presented below has been obtained from the sports habits survey carried out on more than 350 users interested in strength training in 2018. If you want to know more details about how we conducted the interview and why we conducted it, we describe it here.

Methodology

In particular, for the influencers question we use an open format asking: Which fitness influencers do you follow or do you think are most important? Users had an open text field where they could type whatever they wanted. Once the surveys were completed, we dedicated ourselves to assigning votes to each of the mentioned influencers. For each mention, one vote. The graph with the votes collected by each of the mentioned influencers were the following:

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Some users have told us that the ranking does not correspond to reality. That is why we would like to emphasize that these data are NOT our opinions or those of anyone in particular. The graph represents the opinions of the 350 users who filled out the sports habits survey. If you want to add your opinion about the ranking of influencers or recommend other influencers that do not appear on this list: we are waiting for you in the comments!

After the success of our list of influencers most important fitness clubs in Spain, many users asked us about some of the influencers they did not know, so so that they know who these influencers are, we are going to inaugurate a series of short articles where we briefly talk about the best-known influencers in our survey.

The first fitness influencer we will talk about is Powerexplosive, an authentic encyclopedia of the world of strength, he has undoubtedly been the person who has created the most training content in Spanish on the entire network. That is why he is the most recognized fitness influencer in our ranking.

Who is Powerexplosive?

Before focusing on strength training, David was primarily involved in martial arts having participated in international championships during his teenage years. Later he began to be interested in strength training, studying the degree of Physical Activity and Sports Sciences and competing in Powerlifting at a European level obtaining victories in the Spanish Bench Press Championship June -83kg (his specialty).

In 2013 he began to upload content related to strength training sharing his lifts and little by little he began to encourage uploading tutorials, advice and holding competitions that made his fan base grow steadily and established himself as one of the most important fitness influencers in Spain.

Undoubtedly a turning point in his career was when he met the famous presenter Pablo Motos and he advised him to achieve a very defined abdomen for the Mens Health challenge.

From there, his popularity and influence skyrocketed and he continued to gain followers while he dedicated himself to online consulting and generating content on his social networks, blog and others, creating the Powerexplosive team that covered other areas of training such as hypertrophy, nutrition in which Art dealer is not a specialist. However, this soon fell short as he decided to embark on a more ambitious project and that is the creation of the Powerexplosive Center in Madrid where he offers training, nutrition, physiotherapy and psychology services.

In all this time, he has created videos with a huge number of visits, such as the Buttock Training video or that famous video in which he recommended not doing the typical “crunch” to exercise your abs. Its situation among fitness influencers in Spain has been clear, since the number of “crunches” performed in Ibero-American gyms dropped significantly after the publication of said video.

Another of his most recognizable moments was when he attended the anthill set as a guest with Pablo Motos, who, as we mentioned earlier, has been in a relationship for years as a result of the Mens Health Challenge. There he held nothing more and nothing less than the Guinness Record for the heaviest pull-up before an official Guinness World Records judge.

This year 2019 he continues to command the ranking of fitness influencers and continues with new challenges with his training center and preparing his clientele, among which there are quite famous people from Spain.

Conclusion, this is an example that you don’t need to have charisma to establish yourself as a fitness influencer and based on creating quality content, Powerexplosive is ranked first in our rankings of fitness influencers in Spain. I recommend all of our readers to check out his technique videos, routines and progressions as it is worth its weight in gold.

Greetings and next week we will be back with the next influencer!

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We continue our analysis of the most important influencers in Spain in the fitness sector, after the analysis of Powerexplosive y Sergio Peinado, today it is the turn of Ernest Dift, also known on social networks as The Fitness Boy, whose presence already goes beyond fitness and motivation and reaches other facets such as coaching, travel or entrepreneurship.

Although its content was initially focused on training and diet, it came to compete in Men’s Physique and to undertake a very interesting project in which he carried out the diet and training of a user for a year with monthly updates that he did not complete, later with the excess of similar content, he began to create content such as vblog, travel, motivation and lifestyle, always around fitness and motivation.

Born in Barcelona, his history in the world of weights begins when he was 15 years old, transitioning from martial arts and they became a key part of his lifestyle at 18 when he went to england adventure and ended up working on the maintenance team at a local gym. There he acquired the basic knowledge of diet and nutrition with which he managed to change his physique.

Once back in Barcelona and already at the university, it was decided to share his ideas of fitness and motivation through his YouTube channel in which he shared his programming, training sessions, some interviews, recipes and other content that at the time was quite new and useful. After fulfilling one of his most important goals, which was to compete in Men’s Physique, he went on a trip to the United States where he realized that they really liked his videos about the trip along the Californian coast.

For this reason, he began to intersperse travel content with his usual fitness and motivation content, and when his community of followers was large enough, he began to visit different cities in Spain to connect with his followers and realized that he had a identity on the internet that was worth exploiting so he began to take his first steps as an entrepreneur selling clothing and accessories related to fitness and motivation on his website. Along the way, he had some fiascos such as his sponsorship with Gymshark, which, although it was the brand he always wanted to represent, did not turn out as he would have wanted, however, the positive far outweighs the negative.

This last year he has left his channel a little more aside, dedicating himself to traveling the world with his new project TFB World Tour, where he travels a country every month showing what the fitness lifestyle is like on the five continents. On the other hand, although he is still a fitness and motivation influencer, the fitness content is increasingly residual and is now focused on his personal brand, his dream and achieve coaching program, giving talks and even a movie about himself.

In short, perhaps he is no longer part of the fitness community as before, but he continues to be one of the leaders of the Spanish influencer community.

Until next week fiteniers!

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Hello Fiteniers! This week we return with our analysis of the ranking of fitness influencers in Spain with the analysis of one of the fastest growing influencers in recent years, not in vain has he gone from being relatively unknown to accumulating almost 300,000 followers in a relatively short space of time. . In this article we will talk about how he knew how to find his niche between fitness and entertainment and how he has expanded his sources of income so as not to depend exclusively on YouTube, welcome!

Juan Pedro all his life was a very thin young man who wanted to have a muscular body, quite “emo” and who believed that swimming could improve his physique, however, although there was some improvement, he was not getting where he wanted to go. When he arrived at the university and began to practice triathlon, so you can imagine that apart from worsening aesthetically his physique began to suffer injuries since it is a very demanding sport for the joints. Despite the fact that she liked to compete, it was not worth spending four hours on top of not liking herself in front of the mirror. For this reason, after suffering constant discomfort, he stopped resistance and began to focus on muscle hypertrophy.

Since he started training in the gym, he had been thinking about opening a YouTube channel where he could share his knowledge and show his lifestyle. It is no coincidence that its greatest references in the Fitness community are Powerexplosive and The Fitness Boy, possibly the biggest references in the Hispanic fitness and entertainment community.

His channel initially started with a quite common mix in which he shared training, diet, recipes, vlogs and similar content, so it was difficult for him to take off and it was not until he took advantage of the challenge of 100 push-ups TheGrefg, uploading a video in which he very intelligently used the name and image of this well-known Youtuber (he had more than five million followers at that time), managed to position him well in the YouTube algorithm, putting a Hit of more than 150,000 views of that video and an incredible improvement in his subsequent videos.

Once the tailwind pushed his channel, The Titan was improving his editing skills and in front of the camera and together with a good strategy of interesting content and good collaborations, his channel went up like a rocket and he began to enjoy sponsorships, events and other benefits of the Youtuber life. As an anecdote, he shared his experience in a clinic where he had a hair transplant, the truth is that nothing was wrong!

The next turning point for his channel was when he started su relación con otra de las youtubers con más solera del panorama fitness de España, The Saiyan Kiwi, por lo que además de su contenido habitual también empezó a subir vídeos más personales de ellos como pareja, y todos sabemos que el cotilleo tiene muchas visitas

Finally, if Juan Pedro has stood out for something, it is to diversify his sources of income and therefore apart from YouTube has created an online advisory service and Canone Clothing, a formal clothing store designed for people with a fitness physique. Would you like to have discounts on Canone Clothing within Fitenium? Let’s make Fitenium grow and we will surely reach an agreement. He also has a sportswear brand, Only Titans, so his three businesses, along with his contract with Prozis, complement each other quite well.

Finally, it’s reasonable to comment on the turn your content has taken recently. Perhaps because of detecting that the fitness niche is increasingly overloaded or out of pure personal interest, it is noticeable that he is making more and more pure and hard entertainment content and leaving aside his more fitness facet. What’s more, it recently reported that it is not going to compete anymore after having done so at a national and international level and not finding much incentive in that industry.

I hope you found this review of Titan Fit interesting, next week we will be back with another chapter.

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If there is any general criticism of the world of bodybuilding and fitness, it is the lack of transparency and honesty about how they get their results, their lifestyle or the challenges they supposedly achieve on social networks that are sometimes not real. Leaving the fitness theme a bit, we all know the case of Rawvana, who, having created an identity and a business around a raw vegan lifestyle (that is, she only ate vegan food without cooking), was “caught” in a Instagram story eating fish. She later confessed to having added animal protein to her diet due to various health problems, however her credibility was in tatters, as she continued to sell products and programs based on raw vegan food that was causing her problems.

That is why Markinos always stood out in the world for his direct language, his videos with little editing and the absence of filters to say what he thought or felt. He started with fitness, uploading some training focused on performance since he was preparing for some oppositions and wanted to do a lot of pull-ups. His popularity skyrocketed precisely when he won a pull-up contest organized by our favorite popularizer Powerexplosive, for which he did a personal interview that made him quite well known.

However, perhaps influenced by his rise in popularity, but also by his own passions, he left the opposition and focused on the world of aesthetics, progressing to compete in Men’s Physique with more than acceptable results. His theme was relatively varied, but in general he recounted his daily sensations training and how his diet was changing over time, using the famous IIFYM “If it fits your macros” approach (Want to know more about this system, write us!) . His “cheat meals” are particularly famous in which he burst the sweets section of the supermarket that he would have chosen as a victim, you have to appreciate his honesty when it comes to counting the “dirty things” he ate and he did not pretend to be the most perfect on YouTube. He has also played strength training achieving a not inconsiderable 1RM for his height and weight.

Taking advantage of his recognition in the world, Mistermarkinos began advising people while continuing to publicize his lifestyle and also talking about more personal things and thanks to his success, sponsors began to arrive, passing to the vast Prozis staff. While the Youtube fitness sector was becoming more popular and many youtubers came eagerly to the platform, Markinos has gradually distanced himself from YouTube taking the day these lines are written, more than 3 months without posting anything new on his channel, although it continues to upload content on other platforms.

Why have we talked so much about your honesty? We all know that there is a shadow that hangs over the world of fitness or bodybuilding and that is the use of chemistry to achieve better results. It is true that when sponsors or other economic income is at stake, it is difficult to be frank in this sense and most of the world simply do not talk about the subject, but Marcos has stood out above all by letting down what his relationship is with this type of substance without affirm or deny anything categorically (at Fitenium we totally reject the use of doping substances, since they go against our philosophy of life and search for health).

Due to this, his undoubted charisma and all the contributions he has made to the world of training, Mistermarkinos is one of the influencers selected in our ranking of influencers.

Next week we’ll be back with Invicthor, another youtuber who’s talking about.

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Invicthor is an influencer who constantly dances between fitness, business and the economy. Out of the batch in which many young people like Ernest Dift, The Titan and many others began to show their fitness lifestyle to the world from the point of view of young adults closely related to new technologies and social networks. However, Invicthor was able to detect that the Youtube fitness sector had many limitations and tried to create more varied content while also diversifying its activities in order to have more stable sources of income. Its content has balanced between fitness and business, having times with more fitness and times with more business.

This channel was born as another channel more focused on the fitness lifestyle but always with a veneer of humor and entertainment, since apart from videos about supplementation, training or talking, he answered questions from his followers and made videos of his day to day or “messing it up” on vacation or in general lighter content that seeks to entertain rather than train. In the beginning, he also took advantage of talking about other fitness youtubers or bodybuilders to take advantage of the visits derived from those channels, however, always giving an objective opinion and without seeking salsa. In general, it can be said that its content attacked fitness from another point of view that is not the usual one of routines, diets, technique and other content that is already more than chewed by professionals with much more knowledge such as Powerexplosive or Tarrako.

However, Invicthor quickly detected that fitness on YouTube was in clear decline and for this reason its content became less and less fitness and began to talk much more about the economy and society, touching on thorny issues without cutting a hair, being very critical of feminism or speaking openly that her political option is VOX. This has earned him quite a bit of criticism calling him a macho or fascist, although he denies having those kinds of ideas. He finally decided to separate his activity and opened a secondary channel “Wall Street Wolverine” where he now has even more activity than his initial channel.

There was a time when he was motivated by his physical change and even wanted to compete, but he just got involved with his new project that we will talk about now and there came a point where he literally couldn’t handle everything. Invicthor had to choose between fitness and business and the latter option was the winner.

This project we were talking about earlier is Pegasus, a training platform that aims to optimize advice for athletes as much as possible and be able to take a larger number of people more efficiently. Curiously, he has defined Pegasus as a Start Up several times and this definition is at best debatable since it does not have an innovative business model nor is it scalable.

Currently, Invicthor has almost completely renewed its audience, on its main channel it practically does not talk about fitness but about travel and lifestyle and its secondary channel is where it has the most activity and, as we mentioned before, it talks about everything except fitness. It has been diversifying its sources of income for some time and YouTube is the most minority source of all, although it continues to have a presence in RRSS due to its sponsors and the advertising it does.

What do you think of Invictor? Is he a capitalist pig or just a liberal? Can your project be considered Start Up?

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What are BCAAs?

BCAAs are branched chain amino acids. Leucine, Isoleucine and Valine.

They are essential amino acids; the body is unable to produce these compounds on its own. In principle, the body is capable of forming the alpha-keto analogues leucine, isoleucine and valine, but these substances are not usually present in the diet so people have to acquire them through foods that contain them.

In these amino acids the side chains are branched. Because of this three-dimensional structure, the three amino acids have a very special function in metabolism. This means that, unlike the other amino acids, BCAAs do not have to be “processed” in the liver, but enter the bloodstream immediately.

Valine: serves to produce body energy, for muscles and weight lifting. Regulates the positive balance of nitrogen in the muscle as well as intervenes in muscle metabolism and in the regeneration of tissues of the human body

Leucine: is responsible for protein synthesis. Blocks muscle breakdown and participates in the formation of natural sterols.

Isoleucine: Its function is to synthesize fatty acids and ketogenic elements in the body. Participates when the degradation of fatty acids appears. It intervenes when the glycogen level in the cells drops and allows the energy stored in the form of fatty acids to be used when an effort is made.

BENEFITS OF BCAAs

They intervene in the Krebs cycle to obtain energy, reducing the use of other energy components, including glycogen.

Decreases the breakdown of muscle protein.

It inhibits the transport of tryptophan to the brain, this limits the synthesis of serotonin.

By limiting the increase in serotonin synthesis, it delays the feeling of tiredness after prolonged exercise.

BCAAs are used as a source of energy by other tissues in the body, and leucine decreases protein breakdown (just like glutamine, and prevents tissue from being destroyed in training), while increasing protein synthesis in muscles and in the liver.

The BCAAs are oxidized in the muscle and this provides oxygen uptake by the muscle, this saves muscle glycogen and limits the loss of muscle mass in long-term exercises.

WHEN TO TAKE BCAAs

• When there is an intensive training.
• To prevent muscle catabolism.
• After a surgical operation.
• In people with cancer treatment.
• As therapy for dyskinesia (neural disease that manifests itself in involuntary muscle movements).

BCAAs + GLUTAMINA

The addition of BCAAs and Glutamine to carbohydrate drinks consumed during prolonged resistance exercise not only provides a source of energy but also reduces protein breakdown.

BCAAs + GLUTAMINA + LYSINA

• Lysine is another of the essential amino acids, which we can only obtain through food.
• Ensures adequate calcium absorption.
• Helps maintain nitrogen balance in adults.
• Repairs cells damaged by the effects of free radicals, being useful in delaying cell aging.
• Helps form collagen (which is part of cartilage and connective tissue).
• Useful in the production of antibodies.
• Stimulates growth hormone.

BCAA RATIO

The ideal proportion of BCAAs is 2.1.1 + Glutamine + Lysine

Currently, proportions such as 4.1.1, 8.1.1, 12.1.1 proliferate in the supplement market, leaving aside, perhaps for economic reasons or product profitability, Lysine and Glutamine that are normally purchased separately by users. of this type of products.

The 2:1:1 ratio is the most appropriate since higher proportions of Leucine can saturate the transporters they share, so the absorption of the rest would be impaired.

CONCLUSIONS

• BCAAs must be taken, they are not manufactured by the body.
• They are beneficial in every way, both at the health level and at the level of intensive training.
• BCAA+GLUTAMINA+LYSINA,
• It is the ideal complement for any sport, before, during and after the effort.
• Protects cartilage and connective tissue.
• Helps prevent neuronal diseases.
• Delays cell aging.
• Strengthens our immune system.