A fitness influencer was exposed for lying to millions of his followers, claiming he was following a very specific, bizarre diet and lifting a crazy amount of weight in the gym. <\/p>\n
Brian Johnson is known for his barbarian-like ways: a caveman diet \u2013 which he claimed consisted of animal liver, testicles and fertilised chicken eggs, and outrageous workout routines \u2014 which would include bench-pressing hundreds of weights underwater.<\/p>\n
Johnson\u2019s extreme ways allowed him to create a name for himself online, \u201cLiver King\u201d with millions of people \u2014 known as his \u2018Primals\u2019 \u2014 obsessed with his every move. <\/p>\n
He claimed he earned his Greek God-like physique by following this insane diet and an intense exercise regimen, with just a few supplemental pills. <\/p>\n
Johnson also claimed that his two sons were in poor health before they switched to an organ-based diet, which \u201ccured them.\u201d This claim led people to regularly purchase his liver supplements, according to Time. <\/a><\/p>\n The influencer claimed that his lifestyle was all natural and raw. It turns out the father of two allegedly misled the public \u2014 and in fact, it came out in 2022, thanks to leaked emails, that he was actually spending $11,000 a month on steroids to achieve his physique. <\/p>\n As reported by The Sun<\/a>, Johnson supposedly created a $300 million empire for himself, which led him to deny any steroid use. <\/p>\n Yet, the truth finally caught up to him and he had no choice but to admit that he was using \u201cpharmacy-grade human growth hormones.\u201d<\/p>\n The Liver King posing with fans \u2014 his \u201cPrimals.\u201d liverking\/Instagram<\/p>\n While one would assume this would\u2019ve been the end of Johnson \u2014 Netflix just released a documentary on the 48-year-old titled \u201cUntold:\u00a0The\u00a0Liver King.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI think he\u2019s a marketing genius, I really do,\u201d director Joe Pearlman told Time. \u201cThe guy just knows what an audience wants and how to sell stuff to an audience in every sense.\u201d<\/p>\n While one would assume this would\u2019ve been the end of Johnson \u2014 Netflix just released a documentary on the 48-year-old titled \u201cUntold:\u00a0The\u00a0Liver King.\u201d liverking\/Instagram<\/p>\n \u201cI never expected this exposure in the public eye, and it\u2019s been tricky as f-ck to navigate,\u201d Johnson said to cameras in the documentary.<\/p>\n \u201cHow do I repent? I don\u2019t know what comes next. I don\u2019t have the answer to that yet,\u201d the 48-year-old continued. <\/p>\n Johnson is not the first \u2014 and certainly won\u2019t be the last \u2014 fitness influencer to lie<\/a> to gain a massive following. <\/p>\n UK online fitness coach Hannah Barry<\/a> revealed some of the truths behind public fitness personas. <\/p>\n \u201cI used to be a really toxic fitness influencer,\u201d she said in a viral TikTok<\/a>\u00a0video. <\/p>\n \u201cNow I\u2019m just not so toxic and I want to tell you some bulls\u2013t that goes on within the fitness industry that you probably don\u2019t know about.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI never really did any of the ab workouts I actually did,\u201d she said. \u201cThey just got millions of views. I know that\u2019s so sh\u2014y to say but it\u2019s also so true.\u201d<\/p>\n She also revealed that when people sign up for coaching with well-known online figures \u2014 they\u2019re usually just working out with \u201cshadow coaches\u201d who pretend to be the person who was hired.<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t
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