The social media trends of fast weightloss/fitness gains
The more I've watched Tik Tok, FB and Youtube, the more and more I'm seeing trends where people as young as 14, are doing outlandish things to try to accelerate achieving a socially accepted body.
Women getting all sorts of plastic surgery under 20 years old, getting on GLP-1 if they only have like 10bs to lose, and of course the wild diets.
For men, it's about PED's with either SARM's or steroids. Have already seen a dozen influencers on Tik Tok where guys under 20 years old (a couple under 15) are on some of the strongest steroids (tren) because they can't wait to let their bodies grow naturally.
If you're a parent, please pay attention to your kids if you see some really fast turn around time on their physiques changing. Chances are they are doing it illegally. How are they able to? Online, they don't ask for proof of ID if you're purchasing GLP-1 and or SARM's, PED's. Lying is so easy to do on these sites. It's about the MONEY for these companies and the one's that usually sell it the cheapest are usually NOT verified and could be selling contaminated substances or stuff that's just fake to begin with.
Fitness and weight loss/gain take time. It doesn't matter how great your stamina, health, or genetics are, when you take on a regimen of physical improvement, it's NOT going to take place within 30-45 days significantly.
Patience matters here.
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Yes. This situation is toxic and utterly shocking.
I'd love to see the influencers/marketers who boost this stuff named, shamed, even prosecuted/sued when there are health consequences to young people who lack the knowledge to understand the implications.
At least now there exist some other influencers calling them out on the platforms you name. It's probably not enough, because the "lose weight fast" "gain muscle fast" pitch is more clickbait-fodder than "be patient", "be sensible", or "value your health".
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Unfortunately we're seeing the return of "heroin chic" with an extra boost from social media that wasn't quite as widespread the last time around. Hopefully there's enough common sense still out there to counteract some of it!
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Influencers feel the need to do whatever possible to get subs and likes.
Social media users are bombarded with unrealistic expectations. Never mind the PED use, it's also that the influencers we see probably have great genetics, and are filming themselves with good lighting and a pump.
Users should explore their natural potential over ten years of training before even considering PED's, and hopefully never consider those. What's the point, unless you are competing and it's legal? Some artificial temporary gains, with possibly permanent side effects? Users should realize they can only compete with themselves, not influencers. I say "should". I don't have much faith tbh.
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It's just too bad that many social media people tend to just listen to the influencer based on just emotion and not always objectively looking to see if they attempt to do what they are doing, if it's harmful in the future for them.
Instant gratification seems to be the norm now whereas a couple of decades back, people realized that anything worth getting or achieving took a good amount of time regardless of what it was. I just don't like the trend that now we are in a norm where people looking to improve physique aren't looking first at what it really takes, but WHAT they can take to achieve it.
ACE Certified Personal/Group Fitness Trainer
IDEA Fitness Member
Kickboxing Certified Instructor
Been in fitness for 45 years and have studied kinesiology and nutrition
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A piece of that is some high-clickbait "influencers" who lie, saying that the (photoshopped, posed, professionally lit/photographed) bodies they have today came from the program or supplement they're hawking. It didn't, but claiming it did - and that it can happen quickly - is how those leaches make money.
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My heart just hurts for parents these days. I can’t even begin to imagine the pressure and the worry.
I don’t do social media, except this board, because I could (did!) easily end up finding fault with me, myself, I, and everyone and everything about my life, and completely failed to congratulate myself for what I have achieved and be grateful for what’s a pretty darn good life.
Social media takes “the grass is greener” to whole new, dangerous levels.
Why on earth do I want to watch some super fit person (which I’ll never be) flexing, or someone “unboxing” stuff for entertainment if others (yuck!) or watch some youngster with uber wealthy parents flaunting stuff I can never aspire to (and wouldn’t want, even if I could). Does no one out there have a whoaaaaa, stop!!!! moment where they question what is the point of what they’ve just seen? Nope, they subscribe for more of the same, and social media serves it on a platter.
I watched the dumbest show ever yesterday, but they did make one valid point. Gluttony is not only food.
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and another thing, because social media pisses me off so bad, and now I’m off and running, I’m sooooo tired of traveling, or even walking around my own very photogenic historic town, and having morons flipping their skirts, their hair, doing these artfully casually “leaning on the wall” poses, and getting in the damn way.
We were at a stunningly beautiful and what should have been solemn mausoleum complex in Samarkand. Instead of respecting what is essentially an elaborate graveyard, idiots both male and female were climbing up on top of tombs, onto the gorgeously tiled, ancient (and presumably protected) walls and pedestals and hanging off them like monkeys while their friends shooed other visitors out of the way so they could take IG photos.
What kind of vanity-*kitten* have we become?
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Whenever I hear about some clown dying because they got way too close and casual with a cliff edge or whatever, purely for an IG photo to scrounge some likes, most of whom are from people you'll never meet IRL, I just say:
"Darwin."
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So many now just disregard basic common sense or decent morality with people because they are trying to get famous on social media. Especially with nuisance pranksters. And these nuisance pranksters get supported by the younger generation because though they think it's funny, the ramifications to others can be a big deal.
Look up Vitaly in the Philippines or Johnny Somali in S. Korea who are both right now detained by the governments for nuisance pranks the try to totally dishonor both cultures.
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we rode a cable car up to the viewpoint in Tbilisi. Adjacent was an isolated very pointed rock formation with sheer drops on every side. Some idiot had gone off path, climbed the thing, and was doing a handstand on the peak while his mate filmed him.
I was reading yesterday that, because influencers are avoiding crowded beaches and going to mountains, “beach club” traffic in Italy is down 30%, even while tourism is way up. Where are they going?
to the Dolomites to try to copy photo spots their favorite influencers have pumped. Park officials are pulling their hair out. People are showing up to climb in flip flops, inappropriate clothing for that height, and are phoning to be “rescued” when they get tired.The rescue service are mostly volunteered and rescues have tripled this year.
They showed a photo of several hundred people waiting to take a shuttle to a new cable car, where they can hike to the top from there. Sure enough, many people wearing shorts, crocs, sandals, floaty dresses etc.
More proof humans are lemmings.
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And btw, was also reading yesterday that the new social media trend is “fibermaxxing”.
As in, poop your way to sveltness🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️
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If that worked, at my routine fiber intake I'd have the body of a goddess.
Yeah, no. 😉😆
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there is no ROTFLMAO button, but if there were……
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There otter B!
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