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Gymshark

company · in 18 sources (2018–2020)

Sources by year: 2018: 2 · 2019: 1 · 2020: 15

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What comes up in the same parts of the videos; the number is how many parts.

Brandon Sanderson (3) · Atomic Habits (2) · Apple Watch (2) · Notion (4) · Audible (2) · Ali Abdaal's mother (2) · NHS (2) · Taimur Abdaal (2) · Instagram (2) · iPad (2)

What the videos say

The most important statements of each year; all statements.

2020

  • 2020-07-01 · Why Motivation is a Myth — Ali: Whenever Ali catches himself saying "I can't", he switches to "I don't": he doesn't eat McDonald's drive-thru because, he jokes, he is going to look like a Gymshark athlete one day; this is his identity. — 00:05:31
  • 2020-07-28 · How to Stop Procrastinating — Ali: Choosing between exercise and episodes of Hunter X Hunter, Ali says, we put the exercise off to tomorrow: the present self always prefers instant gratification to a long-term goal such as becoming a Gymshark athlete. — 00:00:58
  • 2020-09-01 · Gymshark, Inspirations & Pet Peeves - ONE MILLION Subscribers Q&A — Ali: Becoming a Gymshark athlete is probably not going to happen, Ali says, but working towards it is fun and encourages him to eat healthily and work out. (hedged) — 00:11:56
    • Ali cares more about the journey of trying to become a Gymshark athlete than about achieving it. — 00:12:25
  • 2020-11-22 · My PRODUCTIVE Apartment Tour (2021) — Ali: Working from home in lockdown, Ali has put a pull-up bar in the kitchen and does pull-ups as he walks through, though not very often because it makes his body hurt. — 00:09:09
  • 2020-12-13 · Love, Money and Relationships - Answering your Assumptions — Ali thinks everyone is a show-off to an extent: we all play a social-status game, signalling status and identity through things like an Apple Watch, a Gymshark hoodie or the way we talk and act. — 00:11:39
  • 2020-12-20 · 20 Lessons that Improved My Life — Ali: In the first lockdown of March 2020, dreaming of becoming a Gymshark athlete, Ali started home workouts that soon lapsed, until Yusuf of the Propane Fitness podcast became his online trainer: a workout plan in a Google Sheet, macros tracked in MyFitnessPal, a screenshot sent every week. — 00:08:26
  • …and 1 statement more in 2020 — all statements of 2020

Also named in: Studying, Cooking and Netflix · Day in the Life During Lockdown, All the Apps I Use in a Day, My INSANELY Productive Morning Routine, Collecting My Tesla Model 3 - Day In The Life, Revamping My Living Room - Day In The Life, A Productive Day on Vacation in the Canary Islands, PRODUCTIVE Day in the Life of an Aspiring Gymshark Athlete, I WAS WRONG - How I Set Goals

2019

  • 2019-12-27 (said on 2019-12-20, implied) · My Annual Review using Notion — Ali: Becoming a Gymshark athlete will never happen, Ali says, but having it on his bucket list encourages him to go to the gym and eat more consistently and to get better at social media. — 00:12:15

2018

  • 2018-08-30 · Monthly Favourites #6 - Ali Abdaal — recommendation: Ali: Asked which YouTube channels he learns from, Ali names Sam Kolder: his videos teach Ali a lot about video editing, and he rewatches some, such as My Year 2016 and the Gymshark video, for their techniques. — 00:07:53
  • …and 1 statement more in 2018 — all statements of 2018