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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!