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[–] Carnelian@lemmy.world 54 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Yeah, there was a guy in my town who would run around with one of these around his neck. Similar type of idiot. He would actually run by the strength training gym and gloat to us that we were wasting our time lol, insisting that all we had to do was run around with a big chain.

Hearing about this news story now I wonder if some influencer somewhere started a trend. People love feeling like they found “the secret”

[–] FriskyDingo@sh.itjust.works 6 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Would Piccolo qualify as an influencer?

[–] dalekcaan@feddit.nl 2 points 10 hours ago

Depends on if we start to see musclebros running around wearing 50 lb turbans.

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago

It has all the Hallmarks...

Starts with something based in science, but never goes past surface logic and ignores lots of existing and safe options for the most visible and attention grabbing method despite the serious medical flaws from this method.

Even if you stay away from 1.5 tons magnets, that's going to fuck your posture up before it translates to muscular gains.

This trend spreads by chain letter.