« Three months without seeing a professional is a bad idea » – Liberation

We had already mentioned in February in a quick brief the 75 Hard Challenge, this hyper intense sports program. What we thought was an additional temporary sports obsession, under the leadership of the good resolutions of 2025, still floods our Instagram wire, three months later. Like the daily videos also posted on Tiktok by the influencer Lifestyle Margaux Lajoie from her residence in Dubai and who each start in the same way: in sports clothes, the young woman won one of the post-it hooked on her wall in order to materialize her advance with this sporting objective developed in the early 2020s by a Missouri entrepreneur, Andy Frisella.

This 40 -year -old American patriot who claims to Son website be a « urine mattress»The expansion of a business of food supplements shows generosity by sharing us The six rules of life to follow to walk in his steps And become a self-made-man. And the former relate to the food: each challenger must respect « A strict dietWithout any excess. In addition, you must drink a gallon of water every day, or 3.8 liters. But no drop of alcohol for two and a half months.

Third rule: realize Two forty-five minutes a day training. Additional constraint: one must be made outdoors. For the sports doctor Patrice Stern, « An hour and a half of sport per day is not huge ». However, « It all depends on the sport practiced and the program, which must be progressive and absolutely personalized« , Specifies the one who was used to working with athletes. Problem, the 75 Hard does not provide any of this: the sessions are certainly free, but not supervised, even if as a non-responsibility clause, Andy Frisella specifies on his blog: “Consult your doctor or other healthcare professional before you start 75 hard.Not enough for Patrice Stern, who emphasizes that with such an unusual activity, « three months without seeing a professional is a bad idea».

In addition to these physical efforts, 10,000 daily steps. And to measure and show these developments that promise to be significant, you have to take a picture every day. Which can easily be forgotten, but especially should not be! Because each misstep requires the performers to start again since the start the 75 days.

Finally, if the program aims to reveal the musculature of the participants, it is nonetheless, according to its creator, a « transformer mental resistance program». For that, everyone must also try to read, every day, ten pages of a book on « entrepreneurship, personal development, employment or career« , Specifies Andy Frisella. That’s good, he wrote a book named The Book on Mental Toughness.

This challenge, the 28 -year -old Youtuber known under the pseudo of Lauren BDR Know him well. After a first failure in 2024, tired of « Check a box for check« , Sports enthusiast relaunched the challenge in January 2025. This time, victory! That she attributes to « a better balance between sport and (s) Social life« , But especially to a less restrictive and healthier diet, based on a protein intake. «  »Controlling everything from A to Z can create TCA (eating disorders) in somewhat sensitive people« , She analyzes, confessing that she herself, at the end of her first attempt, she was »thrown». In the balance, this program remains an option acclaimed by Lauren who plans to repeat each year in order to ensure « A healthy lifestyle for at least a quarter of the year.»What risks, at the time of Skinnytok Challenge and Ozempicto feed even more The cult of thinness.

Under the first video of Margaux, the influencer in Dubai, a surfer answers: « Dthem sports sessions per day for people who work with children, how do we do it?« Another questioning: » Chow do you drink 3 l of water per day ? I have to pee every five minutes, when I work is not possible.Especially since theNational agency for health safety, environment and work recommends drinking maximum two litersno more.

Even if a lightened version of the challenge emerged on social networks, the 75 Soft Challenge, the creator had anticipated on his website: “If you modify the program just to say that you have finished it, have you really succeeded? No.« In addition, a little free: »This is the problem of your whole life …»»