Too many damn irritating fitness selfies, IFS for short, are polluting social media.

What defines IFS?

Researchers at the University of Honest Truth located in the City of Reality have found that irritating fitness selfies are images taken by low self-esteem individuals whose life force is solely derived from the amount of “likes” attained through their Instagram and Facebook posts.

IFS can be identified once you spot the following:

  • Copious amounts of image filters.
  • Subject is claiming to have had a hard workout despite no evidence of actual sweat being shown.
  • Subject is clearly in shape compared to the average human body standard but proceeds to claim that they are out of shape and “fat.”
  • Subject is extremely in shape and display hashtags such as “#humble”
  • Subject’s ass.
  • Subject’s boobs.
  • Subject’s background consists of either the bathroom, empty aerobics room, or empty weight room.

Let’s keep this brief. Irritating fitness selfies are annoying because people hate it when other people show off too much of themselves. Plain and simple.

Its a trend, I get it, but realize that this is a trend based on “Look at me! Look at me! Look at me! Look at me! Look at me! Look at me! Look at me!”

(Bodybuilders and physique people, you get a pass only ‘cause your very sport and how well you do relies on the definition and visual conditioning of your bodies. I can see how critiquing each other and looking at each other’s selfies can actually be benefiting from a competitive standpoint.)

Now how do we overcome IFS and actually make this into a more benefiting movement?

One way is to instead of taking fitness selfies what about taking clips of you actually working out. Seriously. I already see many trainers doing this to help their current and prospective new clients learn how to do certain exercises when they’re not around to help them.

If you are that confident in yourself to #motivate the world and spread your #fitspiration with your #fitfam then why not take it a step further and display yourself putting your money where your mouth is.

If you have countless of clips of people doing exercises you open up a whole forum where people who know what they’re doing can call you out on something you’re doing wrong and actually make you better. People who have no idea what they’re doing can see how to do a certain exercise correctly. (I know this is being done but we should do more of it!)

However, it also does give room for people who have no idea what they’re doing to indirectly teach other fitness newbies the wrong way to do exercises, but hey, it’s a start!

Why not take this a step further?

How about we minimize the clips to actually showing some crazy awesome thing you have accomplished in the fitness realm like a new PR or an intense before and after pic and the rest of the time you put the phone away and actually do work!?

Perhaps!?
Either way is better than being a producer and director of IFS 24/7/365/ALL DAY/EVERYDAY! It is ultimately your choice.