There are so many angles I could take on the back of this statement, but since we’re here on Instagram I’ll keep to that.
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I get it. You work out, and you enjoy both the training and the results and you want to share them. Please do. Provided what you’re doing is genuinely inspiring and not just narcissism, you’re helping make exercise the norm.
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Sharing it also keeps you accountable, and helps keep you motivated to keep it up so you can continue getting encouraging words from the online community. Such a positive aspect of social media.
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I know, you've seen results from your training and want to help others achieve the same. It almost always comes from a place of good intentions, but please… for the mother of god… stop it with the fucking tutorials.
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If you’re not a professional coach, if your day doesn’t revolve around learning every intricacy of what makes a movement a beneficial one, if you don’t spend your time fine tuning how you coach and adapt it to various individuals… then leave the teaching to those who are and do.
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Stick to motivational quotes underneath a low-angle arse selfie. They’re fine! Everyone needs more clichés and buns in their day.
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Consider where you “learnt” the movement from yourself. If it was another fitness enthusiast on YouTube or Instagram, you’re essentially regurgitating their information. Ask yourself whether their source was just someone else's video too. How many levels of Chinese whispers have taken place, how many “opinions” have slipped themselves in as fact? How many cues have been accidentally removed because they weren’t what the producer needed themselves but would be crucial to someone else’s execution?
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Maybe you read some articles & studies, or even studied the anatomy and the force diagrams? Amazing, but you’re now a scientist, not a science teacher.
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If you did something and it worked for you then that’s awesome, I’m delighted for you. If you’d just share the fucking video that you watched in hope that it helps someone else too, that would at least remove one layer of you bastardising whatever the (likely inaccurate) video contained.
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