481 - Does #Fitspiration Help You or Hurt You?

Get-Fit Guy

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Health & Fitness, Sports

4.6 • 746 Ratings

🗓️ 7 April 2020

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Despite the good intentions and popularity of social media images depicting fit folks posing with motivational messages, Get-Fit Guy has to ask—are these images helping or hurting their target audience? Read the transcript. Check out all the Quick and Dirty Tips shows. Subscribe to the newsletter for regular updates. Join the conversation on Facebook and Twitter. Links: https://www.quickanddirtytips.com/health-fitness/exercise/does-fitspiration-help https://www.quickanddirtytips.com/podcasts https://www.quickanddirtytips.com/subscribe https://www.facebook.com/GetFitGuy https://twitter.com/GetFitGuy

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Get Fit Guys quick and dirty tips to get moving and shape up.
0:08.1	My name is Brock Armstrong and I'm the Get Fit Guy.
0:11.0	If you search for hashtag FitSpiration on Instagram, you will literally, not figuratively, find millions of images. I just searched for it right now and I got
0:23.3	18,520,901 hits, which is 500 more than I saw two hours ago. All of them are photos of
0:34.4	muscular, slim, and flexible folks mixed in with a few jokesters and even fewer
0:40.2	professional athletes. Many of the photos come with motivational quotes, like, win the morning and
0:47.1	you win the day, or your goals don't care about your excuses, or a long list of advice about
0:53.7	how you too can turn your life around,
0:56.9	often with a hefty dose of product endorsement thrown in. Now, motivation is supposed to be the
1:04.0	point of these images. The good old, if I can do it, then so can you idea. But do they work?
1:10.0	Does scrolling through endless, highly curated photos of people
1:14.4	caught at their absolute best, do anything for our motivation, happiness, fitness, or mental health?
1:21.9	Well, that is what the folks at the Shape Research Center at Flinders University aimed to find out. They asked,
1:29.6	do these images succeed in inspiring women to exercise and live that fit life, or do they make
1:37.5	them feel worse about themselves and their bodies? Well, you probably guessed from my tone that despite the popularity of these
1:47.5	fitzpiration images and the assumed positive intentions of the people posting them,
1:53.8	the researchers at Flinders University's College of Nursing and Health Sciences found their effect
2:00.5	to be the opposite of inspirational.
2:04.1	But it's not quite as simple as that. So let's have a closer look at this fitzpiration study,
2:11.0	shall we? In the paper titled The Effect of Instagram Fitzpiration Images on Young Women's Mood, Body Image, and Exercise
2:21.0	Behavior, Researchers experimentally examined the effects of viewing fitzpiration images on
2:27.9	Instagram using these criteria, body dissatisfaction, mood, and exercise behavior.
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