Sam Sulek

About

Samuel Bishop Sulek (born February 7, 2002) is an American YouTuber, fitness influencer, and professional bodybuilder in the IFBB Pro League. He initially rose to fame in 2023 with his “Spring Bulk” series of videos on YouTube.

Sulek attended Rutherford B. Hayes High School in Delaware, Ohio, where he began competitively diving in the summer before his junior year. He began attending Miami University in 2020, where he also joined the school’s diving team and, as of 2023, is studying mechanical engineering. He began posting videos of his visits to the gym in January 2023. Since he began posting and as of 2024, his videos have all followed the same format, showing him speaking in his car on the way to the gym, his workout at the gym, then him speaking in his car again. By 2024, he had more than three million subscribers on YouTube and more than 5.7 million followers on Instagram.

For The New York Times, Chris Almeida wrote that Sulek had “[chosen] a vision and [was] sticking to it” by trusting his viewers and that he had “become a fascination not simply because he is physically massive and fairly charming, but because of his almost…