A young bodybuilder known online as the Genetic Anomaly has raised serious concern after footage surfaced of him struggling to breathe during a casual conversation with his girlfriend, all while declaring his intention to keep growing at any cost.
Coach Kolton, who covers fitness and bodybuilding content, addressed the situation directly in a recent video. He noted that the bodybuilder made “one of the most extremely rapid transformations” he had ever personally seen in fitness.
Known for his remarkable physique, heavy gear usage, and posing in masks, Genetic Anomaly has built a following largely by leaning into the spectacle of his own excess.
In the footage, the bodybuilder openly acknowledged his breathing difficulties. He said, “I can barely breathe right now and I have to open the window just to get some air. I feel like it’s also my anxiety that causes that. It’s not just like my size.”
He followed it up without hesitation, “I mean at this point it could be anything and no one gives a f**k. But we’re getting bigger. That’s the goal. Bigger by the day.”
His girlfriend, who Kolton described as “probably one of the coolest girls I’ve ever seen on Fitness Influencer Day,” has made her concern clear more than once.
In earlier footage she told him: “You do realize you look healthy, right? Your skin cleared up. You look healthy.”
He brushed it off entirely, responding: “I’m going to get jacked as f**k.”
When the topic of longevity came up, the bodybuilder addressed the daily comments predicting his early passing.
He said, “Before it was he’s not going to make it to 40. Now it’s he’s not going to make it to 30. So these comments are like a daily thing. But that’s good, you know, because I’m getting like freaky. Like people are acknowledging that I’m a mutant. So that’s good.”
Kolton explained that the breathing difficulties are likely tied to a condition called dyspnea, essentially labored breathing while awake and going about everyday tasks. He outlined how multiple factors converge to create the problem, including pulmonary hypertension, cardiac insufficiency, hematological changes, and the physical pressure of excessive abdominal mass limiting chest wall compliance and diaphragm function. The diaphragm contributes to roughly 70% of resting ventilation, and its mechanics can be physically impaired by organ hypertrophy and high food volume.
Kolton also referenced his own past, recalling a period when he was around 260 lbs (117 kg) and pushing aggressively as a bodybuilder:
He said, “I would almost be hyperventilating where my girlfriend at the time would say like are you okay, like what’s going on. And to me in the moment it’s like oh yeah, I’m just a big guy. I just need more oxygen. But reality was I was not healthy. And nobody in that state is healthy. They are just sustaining a moment where they are unhealthy so that they can get bigger.”
