The current generation is obsessed with fitness. You look around and all you can hear is most people talking about how much they trained this morning. Moreover, social media sites like Instagram provide people with an easier way to follow the latest fitness trends. If you don’t know how an Instagram works, you make an account and login through it and follow your friends and celebrities that are on Instagram. You can upload pictures and videos and like and comment on the same. For fitness freaks, Instagram has become an ideal way to flaunt their fitness regime. Most fitness bloggers have accounts on Instagram where they share their fitness regime. Imagine we are few weeks away from summer, and summer fitness goals is already trending. The priority on everyone’s mind is looking good in swimsuits that they would the want to flaunt through Instagram. Can you imagine the pressure? People start hitting the gym and it gets too crowded if you have newly joined it. During peak hours it becomes impossible to get on treadmills and have your desired workout. Getting yourself a fitness trainer that is just dedicated towards your fitness goals become difficult whereas, in November it gets pretty easy to find a prime spot in the same gym. In college, you are nothing like you use to be in high school. Long gone are the days when your mother used to replace your mac and cheese bowl with a healthy salad. Right now, you are responsible for your own health. You have to avoid eating those delicious brownies your roommate baked, well obviously because you are on a diet plan given to you by your fitness trainer or your nutritionist. Well for once we are happy that through Instagram you can put your best self forward. Well for once people can think that you are hot, right? But Instagram now has become more of an inspiration vehicle. The fitness bloggers make you want to take a gym membership.
Growing up taught us that you should have a little of everything. You should basically have everything in moderation. But if you look at the fitness bloggers that provide you a diet plan makes you realise that it does not work for everyone. However, looking at the amount of their followers anyone will think that what they say is correct. So typically, a person who doesn’t do any exercise at all should be consuming only 2000 calories a day which means that anyone who does exercise should consume more calories than that. But then there was a post on Instagram that recommended a 1300 calories diet on an hour of exercise. Shocking, right? That is starving. Anything that is promoting starvation is wrong. You can follow their exercise regime but not their diet plan. Over the top, obsession with fitness on Instagram brings about harmful ideas. For example, the recent trend of thigh gaps. You are so unhealthily skinny that you lose all your body fat to have it or you are genetically blessed to have it already. Some fitness trends are ridiculously dumb, like the detox tea trend. Anyone who is looking for nutrition advice should go to a licensed nutritionist. There is a reason why they have a degree in it. Every nutrition plan is different for every person. There is nothing like ‘one plan for everyone’. You need a nutrition plan according to your physical ability and according to the workout that you are following.
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