Stupid Stuff I See on Instagram About Fitness

There’s a lot of stupid stuff on Instagram — the narcissist’s social network 😉 While I don’t use it myself (my social media manager posts stuff from my account), clients often send me stuff they see on Instagram, and over 90% of it makes me facepalm.

Ironically/sadly, a lot of people posting stupid stuff have a lot of followers. Hence, stupidity perpetuates itself. But that’s OK, because it gives me lots of material to rant against in my articles 😀

Even sadder is that a lot of stupid stuff is posted by personal trainers — what I call “Insta Trainers.”

Here’s my definition of an Insta Trainer: may or may not be certified. May or may not have any “real life” clients. Posts lots of content. Over 50% of it is incorrect. Has lots of followers, so people assume this person is correct. After all, they said that they’re correct. So they must be correct. They said that they’re a trainer. They just don’t post any client success stories. Trainers who post client success stories show expertise. Trainers who post selfies show vanity.

Shots fired!

Anyways, with that cynical intro out of the way, let’s talk about 4 stupid things I often see on Instagram.

In no particular order:

STUPID THING #1: OBSESSION WITH JUMPS

You see a lot of people doing jumps on Instagram. For the vast majority of people, it doesn’t make any sense whatsoever.