Dr. John Jaquish | Weightlifting Is a Complete Waste of Time

Anyone who things cardio is garbage lacks balance. Why have muscles and have poor cardiovascular health. People die more from cardiovascular disease than from any other disease. Cardio does something for the body that resistance training doesn't. It quickens the circulation and helps every organ of the body to work more efficiently. I love muscles, but what about your heart, lungs, kidneys, blood vessels and brain. I have never read anything in any fitness book (and have taken graduate classes in the field) that says cardio is garbage. HAVE MERCY!!!!!!

I don't think it would hurt for the Dr to lose some of his muscle. Cardio would slim him down. The average person does not want to look bulky. Cardio would help him to have a more balanced body. Why avoid a tool of health to look too muscle bound.

Weight lifting gave you a great life, career and popularity.....and now it is a wast of time??????

‘Dr’ John Jaquish: You can’t put on serious muscle and strength by lifting heavy weights, namely barbells and dumbbells.

Dr John Jaquish: But you can put on serious muscle and strength using my band strapped to a bar…Not only that…This use of a resistance band attached to a bar will make you put on more muscle and strength!

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Ph.D. from Rushmore University which is NOT accredited.
Google it.
I think that says it all.

His final analysis, i drive a lambo, you are losers, buy my rubber band and metal bar

Exercise of any kind done well isn't a waste of time...

He is ignoring clean vegans - we eat Whole Foods - natural foods.

He’s also not mentioning those of you who eat dirty meats from industrial farms.

His argument that to live a life you will kill something is correct - in order to live things in nature will die. Whether it’s trees, bugs or animals. BUT where he is wrong is that meat industry is driving so much more murder.

His argument that Nabisco and Kraft is poison is correct -

His argument that he can eat a Bison for a year is dumb bc most meat eaters will not function that way.

Also he is not lean.

A lot of his thoughts are driven by what he sees as dumb people doing dumb things. But he has little to say about what smart people are doing.

Am I the only one who feels at times he like Pualy Shore ?

Talking SHIT is a waste of TIME!

Bought the, stayed away from weights for a couple months, visited the gym recently, hate the bands, not getting the same level of work out. Good addition to weights but definitely not replacement.

One of the funniest men

I was a competitive lifter in the 1980s. Over the years I’ve encountered too many joint injuries using barbells. A few months ago I sold all my barbells and switched to kettlebells, clubs and bands. I’ve made some of the best progress in decades and best of all my joints don’t hurt. My current program involves kettlebell or club work for strength and conditioning followed by one set of bands taken to near failure for hypertrophy. Love it. I can’t wait to train and people have asked me what the hell I’m doing because I’m fit and jacked - and I’m in my late 50s.

Hell...at $900AUD, I won't be giving up using dumbbells etc. any time soon.
JJ won't be going hungry charging a whack like that!
IMO, all the "big" guys photographed are just window dressing.

Really illuminating talk by dr. John Jaquish, I am happy to try with the bands...

Right away.....the whole "winners" & "losers" rhetoric.....I'm skeptical.

His so stupid :D

Writing a book called "Weightlifting is a Complete Waste Of Time" is a click bait title that opens up a very large can of worms. So, apparently what he is saying is that the Champion's like Sandow, Charles Atlas, Vince Gironda, Dave Draper, Steve Reeves, John Grimick, Frank Zane, Bill Pearl, Brad Harris, Gordon Scott, and quite a few other's wasted their time in the weight room? And would have made their strength and fitness goals, including for some, bodybuilding contests and titles, using rubber bands? That is laughable. And besides how laughable it is, the claim that "weightlifting is a complete waste of time" HE HAS NEVER PROVED THAT! And the claim runs against a whole history of bodybuilding and physician culture. Oh, and by the way, the people I mentioned were not on TRT.

Dude makes some bold statements..
Bands are great and give results but so do weights. To say weights are a waste of time is ridiculous and I'm not a free weight guy. I heard him say kettlebells are just a fad, lol please let me know when the fad is over.

Plus, those things are heavy

Wish I could get them in my state but theyve been,,,banned

Geek thought he is 65! He looks so unhealthy and red and puffed

3x is worth every penny. Try it for a month and you will see.

Another person selling BS

Nothing like living the good life on the back of others by profiting off of misinformation and taking advantage of others

X3 is garbage and the book is crap. He makes false claims, and this band thing is good as a door stop but not for getting in shape. If you are starting out, there are cheaper and better alternatives. Don's waste time on this move one and start with stretching and mild weights. Nothing close to the truth including the fake Doctorate this guy claims to have.

I want to buy the x3 cod it would be great for travelling but don't want this dickhead to profit off me 😅

Ya don’t get 21 inch arms, 53 inch chest, 20 in neck, 35 inch quads from dam rubber bands. Ya not get a 500 lbs squat from a rubber band. And I have the data to prove it tangible evidence.🤨🫵🏼 The nerve of this fraud!!!!!😆👎🏻👎🏻

For a time I couldn't decide if Jaquish was a con artist or was just wrong but legitimately believed in the stuff that he was pitching. His TEDx appearance and that nonsense about how some people have tendons "that attach on the other side of the bone", his arrogance, his reaction to legitimate criticism, claims of putting on 60lbs. of muscle using only the X3 (in his 40's and without drugs) and the whole "every training method other than X3 is garbage" make it pretty clear that he is a snake oil salesman.

He's telling the dupes what they want to hear "Build muscle 3x faster in only 10 minutes a day!! Buy my magical resistance bands for only $550(?!)"

Here's another whopper from "Dr." J. He claims that you are 7x stronger at lockout. That would mean that someone who could only get 100lbs. off of their chest doing a bench press should be able to support 700lbs. at lockout. Does that even sound remotely reasonable or plausible?

I wasted four months of training using the X3. I was not impressed with my results. My arms appeared smaller and I wasn't happy with how I was looking. When I went back to lifting weights I had demonstrably lost strength across the board.

I stuck it out for just over four months because I wanted to give the system a legitimate test run to see if it could live up the marketing claims. I hoped that it would, but for me it ultimately didn't. I eventually threw in the towel on the X3 and and went back to lifting weights. I probably got better results in one month of weight training than in the previous 3+ months that I had committed to the X3 so in a way they got the "3x better" part sort of correct only in reverse as I’ve personally found that my weight training results were 3x better than they were when using the X3.

The X3 has been out for 4 years now. If it legitimately built muscle 3x faster than weight training as claimed then we should be seeing countless examples of guys who put on 50lbs.+ of solid muscle over that time (as Jaquish claims to have done) and yet we clearly haven't seen that.

Amazingly this guy says the only thing that works are bands....and guess what...he just happens to sell bands.

Yeah...but you're both bald.

Theyre angry because you're a successful fraud.

Whoever did the layout for this book-cover made a mistake; it was supposed to be: "Dr John Jaquish Is A Waste Of Time".

There will be periods in one's progress when they can only add an imperceptible amount of weight to the bar. It might be fractional plates/washers adding less than a lb, w/regular plates, as little as 1.5 lbs on each side of the bar. Does DrJJ supply bands in 3 lb increments? We're gonna need a truckload.

A crook is born everyday. Everybody can benefit from weightlifting. The funny thing is that his contraption is a form of resistance training which is what weightlifting is.

Rushmore University huh ??? and he even did a TEDx talk...
Dr. John Jaquish PED - oops, I mean 'PHD'

According to Jaquish, after testicular damage due to a rugby accident, he was on TRT and lifted in gyms from age 28 to 40 and gained only 5 lbs and was fat.

UNTIL HE DISCOVERED BANDS AND DEVELOPED X3. That's his story.

Who actually believes that? Seriously.

Elderly women is 55 plus... I'm 55 and weight train regularly. I don't consider myself elderly, bloomin cheek.

We need those "behaviour specialists" (The Behavior Panel) to watch this...cause I think this dude is lying! He doesn't looks like he believes his own shit.

I don't even think they believe it.

What a douche.

Strength band training in 10 minutes a day is just a marketing ploy. Strength band training is an excellent way of doing resistance exercise but you still have to put in a certain amount of volume along with your intensity to get results.

Read his book. Very interesting and makes very good points backing up his assessment that weightlifting is a waste of time.

I've never seen results faster than with his product. I don't get paid to say that and I'm also going to mention that I waited a very long time to order his product because I couldn't justify paying $500 for rubber bands, but I wish I had bought them sooner. I'm not massive, but I got way stronger way faster than any other weightlifting program I've ever tried.

I always thought I didn't like him. Now I'm sure I don't like him.

Ah you guys. I don’t have enough popcorn for this.

I know the thread is 3 years old but it still looks like people arguing over Pepsi or Coca Cola being better.

Look, I don’t particularly like this guy. He’s borderline obnoxious but each to their own. I don’t have to marry him. Yet I have been utilizing parts of “his” system in addition to other band training tools and I will never go back to weights, as much as I love them. While his standard program is effective, it isn’t perfect and definitely benefits from adjustments to make it fit YOU. To say bands make muscle grow quicker is a bit of a fetch. I’d say intelligent, hard band training is just as effective as free weights with LESS injuries, LESS time needed (gym commutes), MORE volume, it’s travel friendly - leading to a more consistent and efficient training overall. Consistency is key so in a sense you could say it IS faster, even if only indirectly.

Does it have to be this specific system? Not necessarily but it’s a good, proven starting point. It’s really about the bands and you can buy heavy bands and band equipment in other places too. Or make them yourself even.
The steroid argument is true for both weights and bands so it cancels itself out. Good luck finding a weight lifter with an actually impressive physique who hasn’t been or isn’t juicing so yeah whatever. Still needs to put in hard work and eat well.

I’d say guys under 35 might be happiest going to the gym to get that hormonal pressure out of their system, watch those insta chicks taking selfies, waiting for the squat rack, learn what a PITA injuries are and all that fun stuff.
From around 40 you will have to let go of all that nonsense and start training smart, however otherwise your lifting career ends there and you end up like these previously fit guys after their 2 decades long bulk cycle who now look like pregnant women and have no intact joint left in their body.

Let me finish this with one more thought.
Everyone looks fit and healthy at 25.
Very few do at 40. What do you think is more impressive? Let that sink in and maybe review your goals.

Lmao he’s an idiot

I understand that we must follow the science but how can this guy say weightlifting and running are useless? Ill bet secretely his basement is full of weights and dumbells. His attitude is arrogant and know-it-allish.

next week. haircare tips?