Does watching YouTube/Instagram fitness channels/models exercise give you motivation to workout?

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Does watching YouTube/Instagram fitness channels/models exercise give you motivation to workout?

[Kaazsz]

Youtube fitness motivated me to start lifting. I had several favorite YouTube’s and some of them were also power lifters on the side. They explained how lifting weights increased their strength mentally, and they were able to accomplish their goals in life because they had mentally challenged themselves by lifting heavy weights week in and week out.

So I started lifting and fell in love with it.

These days, watching lifting videos does motivate me. I’m always eager to learn more about lifting and there’s so much to learn. It keeps me eager to want to go to the gym.

Sometimes tho, life just gets too hard for me and I stop lifting. I’m still weak mentally. My life fucking sucks in general so it’s not easy to stay motivated and stay in the gym.

[jgokgotit]

Watching female stars does. I just love the energy they put out plus their videos tend to mention how they feel about things more than the male videos. Also watching the women get in really great shape motivates me because I respect the work they put in their workouts. Women usually have to train twice as hard as men to get the same result, so if they can get there it shows me I have no excuse to fail. Also the women tend to not assume that the people watching already know how to do the exercise. Might be overgeneralising here since I've only seen a few videos, but this is just how I see it.

[GraveDoll]

No. I live in the gym. My father is an ex body builder.

But I can say I will go there if I'm wanting to learn something about the body like the science stuff. Just awesomeness in learning how the body works.

[Cynicaldreamer]

Yeah! As a matter of fact I follow and exercise along with different trainers on YouTube daily!
Everything from strength training to cardio- it's great!

[Kaytiee]

Me too! I watch Rebecca louise, she makes me laugh and is surprisingly human, and doesn't come off egoistic she's very understanding and has work outs for everyone! Maybe try it out, she does dance cardio too ;)

[Cynicaldreamer]

@Kaytiee Ooh, thanks, I'm going to look her up!

My favorites are: FitnessBlender (fit couple, they're really cute and offer different workouts for everyone), Syndey Cummings, and Hasfit. I watch a few others but those are my favs I have lost weight and gotten results using them.

[Brookie1212]

Not really. When I see military or police officers or firefighters that gives me motivation. Instagram fitness models are, in my opinion, fake. I respect all types of first responder or military personal And it gives me motivation to work out for a purpose bigger than looking good

[TripleAce]

Ya for sure
Sometimes i watch them so hours

The first youtuber i got into was kinobody
I usually prefer natural lifters cause training with roids is very different than if you are natural

[jennifer_bloom]

No - cause they don't have the body that I want. I want to look naturally slim - like somebody who is fit but doesn't exercise.

[Kaytiee]

Then you need to cut down fats, and lose. Also.. to get naturally slim you do cardio and diet cardio does not make you gain muscle it burns fat.

[jgokgotit]

Check out Bella Rahbek on youtube. She goes over a lot of her exercises, meals and even talks about her journey.

[englisc]

It's impossible to be fit without exercise.

[jennifer_bloom]

@englisc What I mean is fit without masculine muscles or overly emphasized muscles. Some female models are very fit and work out - but they don't have masculine legs and arms.

[Kaytiee]

aka what they said, they do cardio (burns fat) and do light working out to keep their legs and tummies toned without being muscular.

[Miss_Savanna_Dry]

To be honest not really. Weirdly enough when I see my 600lb life on TV, I tend to want to exercise more 😅

[Dinklex3]

Well I motivate myself and look at their body and types of exercises they do to see if that's what I want.

[StingRayxoxo]

Why are they standing like that?
No, not really. But American Ninja Warrior does!

[coachTanthony]

Christian Guzman is the man... his girlfriend is hot too!

[BeMuse]

I don’t watch them, but if I did it would motivate me to change the channel...

[DDpsy]

I watch some fitness channels on YT but it's more for education than for motivation. It's mostly channels that deal with technique, science and nutrition.

[gym4ever]

Something like this video maybe little bit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0HSe5QZb1U

[B1gdf]

No.
I am what I am.
Who would I be working out for?
Me or someone else?

[pinkhoodie53]

Yes and no? It makes me want to but unfortunately I don’t always follow up on that

[moonpie89]

I already workout in general but I'm always looking to improve the way I exercise. Those videos help when I hit training plateaus.

[tartaarsaus]

No. It deters me from working out. I usually think around the lines of 'nah, can't be bothered'

[bhavy24]

Not at all, i go to gym to stay fit not for body building

[Anonymous]

Sometimes if their enthusiast about it, setting a new PR, or doing an exercise I haven’t tried , that might get me fired up enough to get a workout I would have missed in.

[bigbang101]

I used to get motivated but now i dont know what happened... It rarely kicks in!

[Luukas]

Instagram is totally fake shit.

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Girls use filters and guys take steroids.

[Anonymous]

Yes. Watching bro science life, Bradley martin, or Athlene-X always gets me fired up for a hard workout.

[jpb0504]

Lmao no it just makes me hate myself more than I already do