I keep getting pop ups for this thing. I thought it might be good for travel. Hooooo-leeeee COW! I’ve seen a lot of nonsense in the fitness and diet world, but $549 for a stick, rubber band, and a board? What are they smoking? I was expecting it to be $99! https://www.x3bar.com/?gclid=CjwKCA...kQAJUAD3s1P0jNOq2JN44IvHgQ5nxm2hoC63UQAvD_BwE
That's crazy. For $549, you could probably get an annual travel membership at a big fitness chain like LA Fitness or Gold's.
Offtopic, but I mark EVERY ad on Facebook as spam. I started noticing it getting worse and worse. It would be like ad, post, ad, 3 posts, ad, 3 posts, ad...so on and so forth. Somebody else mentioned marking them as spam, so I tried it. It is tedious at first, but it works. Now I might go a week or more without a single ad as I scroll. Then after a while they will start to slowly roll in. When I see one, I report it as spam. Then I’ll go another week without them. I know it doesn’t solve anything. But it makes me feel better.
Sure, but you can't get the snarky instructions and feeling of exclusivity you have when you pay $500.
I'm really only half joking. A curl bar off craigslist and some resistance bands. You would be out 25 bucks tops for the same thing and it wouldn't even look janky.
Seriously man, I had a really good thing going with half nekkid fitness chicks always popping up. Now this old fucker is in my feed.
I have some really nice bands I got off of a powerlifting site. I use them for burnout/pump work at the end of a workout and really like them. They're also good for explosiveness. I wouldn't want that to be my only form of resistance though. They also wear out quickly. They're slightly weaker with every single rep.
Fraudsters gonna fraud: "The X3 is an even bigger scam than I previously thought. The guy selling it, John Jaquish, isn't a real doctor. I just received the following info this morning: "Regarding John Jaquish: "...as part of his doctoral dissertation in biomedical engineering research at Rushmore University, he conducted four years of testing with human subjects focused on user comfort, biomechanics, and optimal musculoskeletal stimulation" https://www.omicsonline.org/editor-profile/John/ "Rushmore University is an unaccredited institution of higher learning offering master's and doctoral degrees in a variety of business-related fields, exclusively via distance learning." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rushmore_University Rushmore University is a degree mill (their address in the Cayman Islands). He's part of the Rushmore University faculty: https://www.rushmore.edu/faculty Rushmore Uni is listed as a degree mill in the book "Degree Mills: The Billion-Dollar Industry That Has Sold Over a Million Fake Diplomas": https://goo.gl/QRKTLu and here https://www.oregonlive.com/.../diploma_mills_lessons_from... John Jaquish's studies/publications: https://www.johnjaquish.com/dissemination Some of his studies can also be found through the site www.omicsonline.org but not through PubMed: "It has also been suggested that OMICS provides fake lists of scientists as journal editors to create the impression of scientific legitimacy, even though these are editors in name only and are not involved in the review or editing process." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OMICS_Publishing_Group He's part of the editorial board of the "Journal of Steroids & Hormonal Science" (again on the dodgy OMICS website): https://www.omicsonline.org/steroids-hormonal-science.php More about OMICS: 1. "Junk science publisher ordered to stop ‘deceptive practices’" https://www.thestar.com/.../junk-science-publisher... 2. "US court issues injunction against OMICS to stop 'deceptive practices'" http://retractionwatch.com/.../us-court-issues.../"
Ok, I finally checked this thing out. Is this cockmunch seriously asking $549 for a bar with some bands on it? I could make one for $20. And “builds muscle 3x faster than free weights”? Anyone that understands the physiological mechanisms for muscle building knows that is simply bullshit.
