Fitspiration is flourishing on Instagram. The content — workout videos, photos of "ideal" bodies, inspirational quotes — is meant to help people get healthy. But science shows that it might be doing ...

Type "fitspiration" or "fitspo" into and Instagram search, and you'll immediately find more than 60 million posts, most of them slim, muscular, gym-going young people flexing for the camera or in ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) – Sometimes you need a little motivation to get off the couch and into the gym. Now you see #fitspiration all over the internet to do just that. That’s the point of the internet ...

One of the most popular hashtags on Instagram is #fitspiration (a combo of the words fitness and inspiration). Search #fitspiration on Instagram, and you’ll come up with over 16.5 million posts of ...

Pictures and videos of UCLA students hitting personal records on the deadlift or bench press appear whenever I go through my “explore” tab on Instagram. Phrases like “fitspiration,” “fitfam” and ...

Images of fit, toned bodies in crop tops on social media claim to offer up a dose of inspiration, but many of the 51 million photos tagged #fitspo could be having the opposite effect. Researchers ...

“Obsessed is a word the lazy use to describe the dedicated.” “Pain is just weakness leaving the body.” Sound familiar? If you have perused the Pinterest health boards, scrolled through any ...

We’re moving away from the days where you scroll down your Instagram timelines and see fitness instructors who are like bodybuilders. Muscles protruding from every crevice of their body. The look and ...

If you've tried to get in shape in the past, chances are you're intimately familiar with how difficult — nay, how impossible it is to force yourself to go running at 6 a.m. Many people turn to fitness ...

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