Our fitness expert takes a look at the advantages and disadvantages of following fitness on social media
As I look back over the various fitness trends of recent years, people’s willingness to follow them has become the norm.
Any so-called expert in fitness or nutrition can have an instant audience thanks to the internet, yet the flow of such advice from exercise and diet gurus seems to be slowing – could it be that people are finally seeing sense about what and who they should be following?
I’ll be honest, I’m not a lover of social media – with so much inaccurate and misleading information on it, it’s hard to see how it can keep going.
At the end of the day, we all want to look good and portray the best image of ourselves possible, but fitness and social media seem to have taken this to a whole new level.
Images of what people are eating (which may not always be true) and photos of themselves which have been heavily edited abound on the internet, and can set unrealistic goals for our young people especially, to try to follow. Yet even older people can get caught in this trap too, becoming disheartened by their lack of ability to get the same results which, really, are physically impossible to achieve anyway.
We can learn so much from people who have real knowledge and experience in any industry, including the fields of fitness and nutrition. The key is to carefully consider who you follow – what experience do they have, and what are their credentials?