WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.600 When Speedians reached out offering to sponsor a video about the Gym Monster 2, 00:00:03.600 --> 00:00:08.720 I really wanted to use this opportunity and this machine to document my personal fitness. 00:00:08.720 --> 00:00:12.640 My long-term goal is to measurably increase my cardio and lose about 00:00:12.640 --> 00:00:16.480 20 pounds of fat over the next four to six months. Yeah, bad news, David. 00:00:16.480 --> 00:00:21.680 We only have time to unbox the Gym Monster 2 and show it off right here and right now. 00:00:22.560 --> 00:00:28.880 But how about this? After this video, you take it home and then we'll do a Floatplane exclusive, 00:00:28.960 --> 00:00:32.240 LMG.gg slash Floatplane. You keep up with it. You hit your goal. 00:00:32.240 --> 00:00:35.440 You keep the machine. Done. Deal? Deal. All right. No, wait, wait, wait. 00:00:35.440 --> 00:00:40.560 This is fitness video. DEAL! 00:00:40.560 --> 00:00:43.760 Of course, you don't even know what you're agreeing to take home yet. 00:00:43.760 --> 00:00:47.200 Maybe we should actually do a workout and try this thing. 00:00:47.200 --> 00:00:51.600 Question for you Linus. Yes. What's the biggest obstacle for a lot of people when it comes to Gym? 00:00:51.600 --> 00:00:58.080 Staying motivated. This is very true. I can't speak for everyone, but I know for myself it's staying disciplined 00:00:58.080 --> 00:01:02.640 and going to the gym regularly, especially after a long work day and a long commute. 00:01:02.640 --> 00:01:06.800 If I can work out with this thing in the comfort of my own home, I might actually do it. 00:01:07.440 --> 00:01:10.960 Said everyone ever. I'm different. I'm special. All right. 00:01:10.960 --> 00:01:15.840 Well, the Gym Monster 2 might be the machine for you, but why don't we give it a shot and see if it's any good. 00:01:15.840 --> 00:01:19.600 Let's start with free lift mode. How strong are you Linus? I actually don't know. 00:01:19.600 --> 00:01:23.680 I don't really Gym Bro. You have the strength of a 13 year old child. 00:01:23.680 --> 00:01:27.760 That is not what that means. I'm pretty sure LB means little boy. 00:01:28.400 --> 00:01:32.400 All right. Do you know how to do tricep extensions? What part of I don't really Gym Bro is unclear. 00:01:32.400 --> 00:01:37.120 Bro, you own a Gym. I know, but that's okay. So you'll go sort of elbow straight. 00:01:37.120 --> 00:01:43.120 The point is to feel it in the triceps. My guess is I would probably put you like 40 pounds to like really get a workout. 00:01:43.120 --> 00:01:46.560 So 13 shouldn't be too bad. So elbows forward. Elbows forward. 00:01:46.560 --> 00:01:51.520 Don't move your ARM. Keep it straight and then just extend that. And my fists, are they like a hammer or are they like this? 00:01:51.520 --> 00:01:55.120 I would do hammer. Okay. That's how easy it is to get started. 00:01:55.120 --> 00:01:58.800 Hold on. I'm going to fall. You can, you can go one foot in front of the other if you want. 00:01:58.800 --> 00:02:02.000 Oh, can you? Yeah. That's totally fine. Okay. Well, why, how'd you make it look so easy? 00:02:02.000 --> 00:02:03.200 I've been to the gym before. 00:02:05.760 --> 00:02:12.480 Okay. Why don't you explain for the people what it is? Gym Monster 2 is an all in one home workout system that has a variety of 00:02:12.480 --> 00:02:19.440 resistances, different angles you can pull from. It's everything you need to get a really excellent workout at home on top of a 00:02:19.440 --> 00:02:23.600 digital control platform that allows you to control the machine, but also get 00:02:23.600 --> 00:02:27.280 access to a variety of different training regiments that didn't fit a variety of needs. 00:02:27.280 --> 00:02:30.560 Okay. 20 is a lot more than 13. I definitely feel it. 00:02:30.560 --> 00:02:34.320 Good. See, it's working already. Yeah. I'm going to get you swole by the end of this video. 00:02:34.960 --> 00:02:40.240 Unlikely. One of the key benefits that David didn't touch on is it's super easy to set up. 00:02:40.240 --> 00:02:44.320 No assembly, no drilling, no wall mounting, just unbox and go. 00:02:44.320 --> 00:02:45.680 Do you want to see how easy this is to store? 00:02:50.640 --> 00:02:54.560 Done. And there's wheels. It's plugged in right now, but you just tilt it and roll it anywhere you want. 00:02:54.560 --> 00:02:59.440 Oh, cool. It's actually so sick. This is a sponsored video just to remind you guys, 00:02:59.440 --> 00:03:03.440 but David was actually this excited to do it when it showed up in Ryan's meeting. 00:03:03.440 --> 00:03:07.600 Yeah, I like fought for this one. There's nothing fake about it. 00:03:08.560 --> 00:03:15.680 Next thing we're going to do is we're just going to move these and try a different exercise just to show how easy it is to kind of do a variety of exercises in quick succession, 00:03:15.680 --> 00:03:18.880 even in the free lift mode. Let's just do like a bicep curl. 00:03:18.880 --> 00:03:23.120 Just for the camera, you face out this way and just do bicep curl. 00:03:23.120 --> 00:03:27.600 Okay. Would I normally not face that way? When I was using it, I was mostly facing the screen 00:03:27.600 --> 00:03:30.640 because then I have easier access to the controls. Right. That makes sense. 00:03:30.640 --> 00:03:35.360 Okay. But one thing that's really cool is they actually include a Bluetooth ring 00:03:35.360 --> 00:03:40.960 where you can actually turn the weight on and off, as well as once it's off, you can adjust the amount of weight you have. 00:03:40.960 --> 00:03:44.560 That's pretty handy. It's super handy. And then so bicep curl is the idea that I keep. 00:03:44.560 --> 00:03:50.400 You can be probably doing more of a drag curl because the way that the cables work kind of have your elbows go back. 00:03:50.400 --> 00:03:54.720 Yeah. You're trying to engage just your biceps, but you're going to feel a little bit in the back, 00:03:54.720 --> 00:03:58.480 but you want to avoid using your back too much. Bit higher. Higher. Like get up to your nips. 00:03:59.520 --> 00:04:02.720 Yeah. Okay. Am I doing it right? Yeah. 00:04:02.720 --> 00:04:06.880 Darby, where do you feel it? Here. So I guess you're doing it right. That's all right. 00:04:06.880 --> 00:04:09.920 That's sort of the key with fitness is figuring out the way that works, 00:04:10.560 --> 00:04:15.520 where you feel in the right spot. One thing you can also change is actually the type of resistance 00:04:15.600 --> 00:04:18.880 that the machine provides. So I'm going to turn you off. Okay. 00:04:18.880 --> 00:04:22.400 It's impossible. All right, Darby, why don't you put those all the way down and then we can kind of take a look. 00:04:22.400 --> 00:04:27.120 Okay. There's actually multiple different types of resistance. There's your standard, which is what you were using. 00:04:27.120 --> 00:04:31.440 Eccentric mode means that you have less weight on the way up, which is a really good way of hitting muscles. 00:04:31.440 --> 00:04:37.440 So you get that time under tension because you could bicep curl 50 pounds slowly on the way down, 00:04:37.440 --> 00:04:41.760 but to actually bicep curls 50 pounds per ARM is very, very, very hard. 00:04:41.760 --> 00:04:45.360 So you can hit them in a whole different way and get a whole different kind of workout. 00:04:45.360 --> 00:04:48.400 Oh, cool. Okay. There's fixed speed mode, which no matter how hard you're pulling, 00:04:48.400 --> 00:04:51.680 it's going to keep the speed regular to kind of prevent injuries. 00:04:51.680 --> 00:04:56.880 So if you're doing something that's more recovery focused and you don't want to move too fast. 00:04:56.880 --> 00:05:01.360 It's the same with the Pilates mode, where it's more about kind of slow deliberate movements 00:05:01.360 --> 00:05:05.520 and it is about strong resistance. And then there's the chain mode, which is what we're going to do 00:05:05.520 --> 00:05:09.360 so we can test out the safety features. Oh, okay. What are we doing? 00:05:09.360 --> 00:05:13.120 We're going to do bench press. Oh, bench press. So this is not included with the base kit. 00:05:13.120 --> 00:05:17.120 You have to get one level up, but you can get the bench. 00:05:17.120 --> 00:05:21.840 You can get the rower over there and a box of accessories that do come standard. 00:05:21.840 --> 00:05:24.880 I guess I should show you how to unclip the handles. 00:05:24.880 --> 00:05:28.160 Super easy. There's just a big button. Pull, done. Easy peasy. 00:05:28.160 --> 00:05:31.680 Okay. What we actually should do is we should clip it onto the machine. 00:05:31.680 --> 00:05:36.080 So there's these. We have these. 00:05:37.280 --> 00:05:41.120 Do you know how to do a bench press? Based on everything you've seen so far, what would you imagine? 00:05:41.840 --> 00:05:45.040 Certainly, yes. Thank you. That's very kind of you. 00:05:45.040 --> 00:05:48.560 So what we're going to do is we're actually going to show off our first safety feature, 00:05:48.560 --> 00:05:52.960 which is the safety start. Basically what that means is that up until a certain length, 00:05:52.960 --> 00:05:56.800 there'll be zero resistance. And then once you get past that length, then the weight starts. 00:05:56.800 --> 00:06:00.560 Oh, yeah. So now there's nothing on it. We're going to go 50 pounds aside. 00:06:00.560 --> 00:06:04.720 So that's 100 pounds total. We're going to go 30 pounds aside. 00:06:05.280 --> 00:06:06.480 So 60 pounds total. 00:06:08.960 --> 00:06:13.200 I feel like one of the barriers for stuff like this is if you're like me and you don't really know what you're doing, 00:06:13.200 --> 00:06:16.560 you don't really know where to start. Do they have like workouts and stuff? 00:06:16.560 --> 00:06:19.840 We're going to get to that. There's actually an incredible amount 00:06:19.840 --> 00:06:23.280 of free content you can access. Even as someone who does have 00:06:23.280 --> 00:06:26.400 a pretty comfortable handling of the gym was really impressed by it. 00:06:26.400 --> 00:06:29.600 I tried to work out on Friday and I was sweating really hard. I'm going to put on the chain mode. 00:06:29.600 --> 00:06:32.480 Let's freaking figure this out. Okay, you ready? Yeah. Turn on. 00:06:33.760 --> 00:06:37.280 You're probably going to want more weight, but this is good. That's really heavy. 00:06:37.280 --> 00:06:41.600 So drive from your feet. So spread your legs a little bit more. Drive from my feet. How is that supposed to work? 00:06:42.240 --> 00:06:46.720 So you want to push from your feet, kind of arch your back a little bit and kind of push with your whole body. 00:06:46.720 --> 00:06:51.920 I don't know. What the? Okay. Full disclosure, I am not a personal trainer. 00:06:51.920 --> 00:06:54.880 My coaching advice is very mid, but I used to look like this. 00:06:57.040 --> 00:07:00.560 Right now we have the chain mode on and what that does is actually simulate 00:07:00.560 --> 00:07:03.600 putting real chains on your barbells when you work out. 00:07:03.600 --> 00:07:06.720 So that as you lift it, more of the chain is getting pulled up 00:07:06.720 --> 00:07:10.800 by your muscles. So the weight increases at the end of the movement. 00:07:10.880 --> 00:07:14.720 Adding up to four pounds at the full range of motion, but you're not going the full range of motion 00:07:14.720 --> 00:07:18.160 of the cable. So we could actually turn that up if you wanted. You're saying my arms aren't very long? 00:07:18.800 --> 00:07:22.560 Just this movement, because you can go like full shoulder press. So that would be like the full. 00:07:23.680 --> 00:07:27.520 You're not that short. I'm feeling it more in like my shoulders and arms, 00:07:27.520 --> 00:07:32.640 honestly. I really don't think I'm doing it right. One thing that you can't see is actually how 00:07:32.640 --> 00:07:36.160 the machine shows you the power that you're pushing on both sides. 00:07:36.160 --> 00:07:40.080 So these bars will show you your left side and your right side if you're pushing equally, 00:07:40.160 --> 00:07:44.640 which is something I'm genuinely concerned with when I'm at the gym, especially if I'm doing barbell exercises. 00:07:44.640 --> 00:07:48.560 It's really easy to compensate on one side and over push with right 00:07:48.560 --> 00:07:51.760 and just keep making it stronger and stronger while your left side gets weaker and weaker. 00:07:52.320 --> 00:07:54.640 This will correct that. Oh, cool. 00:07:57.680 --> 00:08:01.200 It's nice to be able to just like rest with the safety start thing. 00:08:01.200 --> 00:08:04.160 Yeah. And not have it squeeze you. Yeah. It'd be uncomfortable. 00:08:04.960 --> 00:08:09.600 One thing I was going to get you to comment on, but I think might be beyond your area of expertise is 00:08:09.600 --> 00:08:14.160 if the weight that's on the screen matches the feel of the weight from the gym. 00:08:14.160 --> 00:08:18.000 So I'm actually going to do a rep right now and tell you how close it feels 00:08:18.000 --> 00:08:23.360 to doing this workout at the gym. So I'm doing 15 aside, which is, you know, 30 pounds total. 00:08:24.800 --> 00:08:28.240 That's pretty low for a bicep curl, but it should give me an idea. 00:08:28.880 --> 00:08:31.760 Really? Cable machines always have a weird calculation because there's pulleys. 00:08:32.320 --> 00:08:35.360 And so pulleys are, you know, making it easier to work. 00:08:35.360 --> 00:08:39.360 Yeah, literally what they do. Yeah. But I would say that that's pretty damn close 00:08:39.360 --> 00:08:42.880 to what 30 pounds feels like. Nice job, speedians. 00:08:43.520 --> 00:08:46.640 Oh, left side range of motion is too small. It yelled at you. 00:08:46.640 --> 00:08:51.600 Oh, that's pretty cool. Oh, and it gives you a workout report. Yeah, I like that it keeps track of your reps. 00:08:51.600 --> 00:08:55.520 It gives you an average of your power. And one thing you can do is you can actually track 00:08:55.520 --> 00:08:58.720 all of your exercises as you go. The thing I'm really excited to show you 00:08:58.720 --> 00:09:05.040 is actually the programs that are built in. We have all our workouts, which is 521 total built in. 00:09:05.040 --> 00:09:09.120 And so do you want to pick one? See what you like. You're doing the relaxation ones. 00:09:09.120 --> 00:09:12.400 Well, no, no, I was just showing different things. Why? Why? 00:09:12.400 --> 00:09:15.120 There's no shame in that. I want the sleep button, please. 00:09:16.720 --> 00:09:20.400 I'll do core strength and stability. Do you want to do it solo or should we do it together? 00:09:20.400 --> 00:09:24.160 Sure. Yeah, well, we can do it together. I love that. That's actually an option where you can trade it off. 00:09:24.160 --> 00:09:27.200 Yeah. This is also a good reminder that the gym monster too 00:09:27.200 --> 00:09:32.080 doesn't necessarily come with everything. This is the Pilates kit, which has like an extension 00:09:32.080 --> 00:09:35.200 for this board. Do we even need that though? I could just put my feet on the ground. 00:09:35.200 --> 00:09:39.120 Yeah, that was just going to go on the ground. That's totally fine. Yeah. So right now it's just go. 00:09:39.120 --> 00:09:41.840 Oh, wait, are we starting over? Yeah. Oh, okay. 00:09:42.640 --> 00:09:46.400 We'll go beside. I can't see it though. Oh, right. I guess we could do that. 00:09:46.400 --> 00:09:48.640 I like that you chose the workout. That doesn't have to use the machine. 00:09:50.720 --> 00:09:58.720 She's talking a lot. I feel like I'm missing out on... Oh, well, it's a good time to show off our 2.1 audio system 00:09:58.720 --> 00:10:00.720 that's built in. Whoa. 00:10:04.400 --> 00:10:08.400 It has breathing built in. We're going to be 10 pounds per side. 00:10:08.400 --> 00:10:11.600 I can do more. 24 pounds per side. That's a lot. 14 pounds per side. 00:10:11.600 --> 00:10:13.280 Sure. So slow, controlled. 00:10:15.280 --> 00:10:16.960 The other one doesn't have the extension on it. 00:10:18.640 --> 00:10:22.800 My bad. We should call this video two guys with ADD attempt to work out. 00:10:24.800 --> 00:10:26.080 Oh, man, she goes so fast. 00:10:30.400 --> 00:10:34.560 Two more reps, but you're going to do more because we... I think six of those were not real reps. 00:10:36.320 --> 00:10:39.840 Listen, listen. It's my turn. Get out of here. 00:10:39.840 --> 00:10:42.240 I think the ankle is probably your best. Oh, yeah. 00:10:42.960 --> 00:10:45.360 Oh, okay. And you can just kind of drop it. It'll just... Yeah. 00:10:46.000 --> 00:10:49.120 It's not going to yank itself. It's not like a real cable machine where it's like 00:10:49.120 --> 00:10:52.960 just a bunch of weights going to go slamming down. It uses magnets not weight. 00:10:52.960 --> 00:10:55.920 What? Yeah. In here. Oh, that's kind of cool. 00:10:57.040 --> 00:10:59.200 Turn me to 20-ish pounds. 20 pounds. 00:11:04.400 --> 00:11:07.760 Good job, David. This was not the kind of workout I was expecting. 00:11:09.760 --> 00:11:15.280 All right. Next exercise. David wants to do some more gym bro-y stuff. 00:11:15.280 --> 00:11:19.920 Let's go strength. So we can actually see what's in the workout, which is cool. 00:11:19.920 --> 00:11:24.640 And then if you want, you can change the movements. If you're like, oh, I don't like the dynamic shoulder circles, 00:11:24.640 --> 00:11:28.640 I can change that. Get your program tuned in exactly how you want. 00:11:28.640 --> 00:11:31.040 You can add it to your workout calendar. That's pretty cool. Oh, that's pretty cool. 00:11:32.000 --> 00:11:36.400 And then we need the barbell. What are you so worried about? 00:11:36.400 --> 00:11:40.080 I don't know. Breaking my body? This is, you'll be fine. 00:11:40.080 --> 00:11:44.320 So the maximum you can do per side is 110 pounds. So 220 total. 00:11:44.320 --> 00:11:47.360 Like I bet if you were really trying to impress a lady, 00:11:47.360 --> 00:11:49.440 you could deadlift 220 pounds right now. 00:11:51.680 --> 00:11:54.880 Okay. So, okay. It's going to be like right in close. 00:11:54.880 --> 00:12:00.480 Yeah. And I'm going to be... Yep. That's pretty good. Probably a little too much leg bend, but not too bad. 00:12:04.000 --> 00:12:09.120 I think I did it. 00:12:09.120 --> 00:12:12.400 Every ding you hear is you doing it. Have you ever done deadlifts before? 00:12:12.400 --> 00:12:14.240 Once. Okay. How'd it go? 00:12:16.080 --> 00:12:20.640 Fine. Okay. I also had a helper. One thing I both love and hate about this machine 00:12:20.640 --> 00:12:25.120 is that you can't really cheat too many reps. Normally, even in a group class session, 00:12:25.120 --> 00:12:29.120 sometimes if I'm really tired, I kind of just like do fake half reps in the corner 00:12:29.120 --> 00:12:32.160 and pretend like I did it because I'm too tired. The number doesn't really go up 00:12:32.240 --> 00:12:36.320 if you don't do the rep. So it's hard to cheat this. There's obviously ways to do it, 00:12:36.320 --> 00:12:40.720 but what I found is I was feeling more accountable to this machine than I was in any group fitness class 00:12:40.720 --> 00:12:43.360 I've been in for a while. Nice. I think it's your turn. 00:12:47.440 --> 00:12:51.440 You do it so fast. So you get explosive power, baby. 00:12:51.440 --> 00:12:54.080 Get my speed on my skates. If you go slow, it's like... 00:12:56.960 --> 00:13:01.360 But there's all different kinds of ways of working out. And what I found is that all my different ways 00:13:01.360 --> 00:13:06.400 that I like to work out, I was able to do pretty good on this thing. We're going to call quits on the workout right now. 00:13:06.400 --> 00:13:09.440 One thing that you can do, if you don't like using the tablet to make your programs, 00:13:09.440 --> 00:13:14.400 is you can actually connect to the Speedians app, do your programs there, sync with your machine. 00:13:14.400 --> 00:13:17.760 There's also the Wellness Plus program on the Speedians app, 00:13:17.760 --> 00:13:22.000 which is a AI-powered nutrition coach, exercise coach. 00:13:22.000 --> 00:13:25.280 And it'll kind of suggest both meals and workouts you can do. 00:13:25.280 --> 00:13:29.680 And so it might be the right fit for you. That's something that I'm super good at. 00:13:29.680 --> 00:13:32.880 Well, you don't really need that. I am the AI. 00:13:32.880 --> 00:13:36.160 And I think all that remains now then is to see if it works for you. 00:13:36.160 --> 00:13:41.920 That's a pretty ambitious goal. You want to lose 20 pounds? I got so much to lose, both in life and on my body. 00:13:44.320 --> 00:13:48.080 Okay. Let's see how it goes. LMG.GG slash Floatplane. 00:13:48.080 --> 00:13:51.600 And if you guys want to check out the Speedians Gym Monster too, we're going to have that linked down below. 00:13:52.400 --> 00:13:57.440 If you guys enjoyed this video, the one I called was the destruction of the house video 00:13:57.440 --> 00:14:00.960 because it's like a workout. You know, I was throwing the sledgehammer. Sure, why not? 00:14:00.960 --> 00:14:01.920 Tearing down the tech house.