Soho House
Pop Culture Fitness
Health & Wellness
Exercise Myths
Seth Oliver
100

Soho House Nashville is located in this neighborhood.

Wedgewood-Houston (WeHo)

100

This viral TikTok trend, popularized in 2023, involves completing a certain number of days of strict diet, two daily workouts, and no alcohol — with no rest days.

75 Hard

100

This compound lifts the body using only upper body pulling strength — no kipping. A true test of relative strength.

Pull-up

100

TRUE or FALSE: Doing crunches every day will give you a visible six-pack.

False

100

Seth was born in this state.

Alabama

200

Soho House refers to members who are under this age as "Young Soho" — and offers them reduced membership rates.

27

200

This wellness brand, known for its $45 classes and orange branding, became synonymous with boutique fitness culture in the 2010s.

Orangetheory Fitness

200

The muscle group targeted by a Romanian deadlift.

Hamstrings (will also accept glutes)

200

This decades-old fitness metric, calculated using only height and weight, is still widely used by doctors and insurers to determine health status — despite being a poor predictor of individual body composition.

BMI

200

Seth began working at Soho House Nashville in this year.

2023

300

Soho House is known for catering to this type of professional — think directors, photographers, and musicians.

Creative industry professionals

300

This viral social media workout trend, popular on TikTok, involves a treadmill at an incline.

12-3-30 workout

300

This training zone, often called 'conversational pace,' builds your aerobic base and burns fat efficiently.

Zone 2

300

Popularized in the 1960s by a Japanese researcher, this specific daily step count became a global health target — despite being based on marketing rather than science

10,000 steps

300

Seth learned to play this instrument at six years old and continues to play it today.

Piano

400

Soho House was originally founded in this city in 1995.

London

400

Hyrox was founded in this European country in 2017.

Germany

400

This is the recommended minimum weekly minutes of moderate-intensity cardio per CDC guidelines.

150 Minutes

400

This supplement, one of the best-researched in sports science, was falsely believed for years to cause kidney damage, hair loss, and cramping.

Creatine

400

This is Seth's favorite NBA team.

Miami Heat

500

Soho House was founded by this British restaurateur, who also created the members' club Cecconi's and the Dean Street Townhouse.

Nick Jones

500

CrossFit's flagship annual competition, which crowns the "Fittest on Earth," is held in this city.

Fort Worth, Texas

500

The principle that the body adapts to the specific demands placed on it is called this.

SAID Principle (Specific Adaptation of Imposed Demand)

500

Despite being a staple of PE classes everywhere, research shows this style of warm-up done before a workout actually temporarily reduces strength and power output.

Static stretching

500

This is Seth's middle name.

Michael