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  • springlering62
    springlering62 Posts: 10,444 Member
    edited November 4
    https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/comment/48818323#Comment_48818323

    then this one is for you. Be sure to blow it up and read the challenging exercises!

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    I’m off to do some shoulder shrugs!!!!

  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 38,314 Community Helper

    Yeah, those chair yoga ads: I get the video ones for women. They look like real senior women demoing the exercises, but like senior women who didn't just start exercise yesterday.

    But the chair yoga ads with the calendar/pictures, like the one just posted: Such a profound combination of low ability expectations, high outcome promises, and absurdly aspirational "afters".

    The video ones for women promise big, too: In 30 days everyone will notice. From 7 minutes of seated arm/leg waving per day. Sure.

    Is exercise stuff like this maybe useful for people who are very physically depleted? Yes, though I'd seek better sources. The marketing of these, though? Yikes!

  • springlering62
    springlering62 Posts: 10,444 Member

    @AnnPT77 sometimes you just tickle me.

  • nossmf
    nossmf Posts: 15,781 Member

    Finger stretches…of course! I KNEW I've been missing a key ingredient in my high-octane lifting regimen to take me over the top, but never could figure it out. Finger stretches!

    Look out, ladies, in two weeks I, too, will look as buff as that man! (My beard may never look as robust, but please don't hold that against me.)

  • HS7793
    HS7793 Posts: 13 Member
    edited November 8

    The pink salt trick is all over youtube, marketed towards women who have put on weight through motherhood or adult women more broadly; it claims that pounds will disappear quickly and you'll lose your entire closet full of clothes in no time because you'll drop down several sizes. And expect a "Whoa, mama, you're smokin'hot!" remark from your husband who will be in utter disbelief at your results.

    I smile every time I see this ad and don't think anyone takes it seriously. If anything it is a reminder that electrolytes play an important role in our fitness and nutrition.

  • springlering62
    springlering62 Posts: 10,444 Member

    I sincerely think I would have fainted - and probably called my lawyer to brace myself- if at any time my husband had ever utter the words: Whoa, mama, you're smokin'hot!"


    he’s a sweetie pie, but sort of like that absent minded professor movie. At least he never noticed when I was fat. 😅

  • HS7793
    HS7793 Posts: 13 Member
    https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/comment/48827295#Comment_48827295

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