Stop Blaming Fitness Influencers for Your Body Image Issues

Examine why fit bodies trigger you.

Nicole Linke
In Fitness And In Health
5 min readDec 23, 2023

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Hating on the fitness industry, especially so-called “fitness influencers,” seems to be “in” these days.

Prominent fitness professionals themselves hate on the industry; researchers have concluded “[…] that viewing fitspiration models on Instagram was more likely to lower

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Nicole Linke
In Fitness And In Health

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