#fitnesssharing

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Half kneeling kettlebell over head press 🏋🏻 #kettlebellwork 1️⃣👉🏼it's static hip flexor stretch is even more effective because is cued to activate the same-side glutes and brace the core, so you’re effectively increasing stiffness at an adjacent joint to help “solidify” the newly acquired range of motion into hip extension 😉 2️⃣👉🏼 it's train our core stability, It serves as a great anterior core stability exercise because it’s loaded asymmetrically, it serves as a great lateral and rotary core stability exercise 😊 3️⃣👉🏼 Train thoracic mobility and dynamic stability of the scapula 🙏🏼👍🏼😉 #training #fitnesssharing #urbestxenuf #strengthnconditioning #progressionnotperfection #keeplearning #shoulder #core #stability #mobility #celebrityfitnessmalaysia (at Celebrity Fitness AEON Shah Alam)

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How Many Miles is Too Far?

(additional post #5)

I may not be a “runner” in the traditional sense of the word, but I can recognize when I have made significant strides (pun intended) in my limited, beginner running routine. If I add an extra half mile on my run or bump the treadmill incline up one more notch, I feel intrinsically proud. While I relish in exceeding these small steps of improvement, some people take to social media to express how proud they are of crushing their running or fitness goals. 

With apps like MapMyRun, for instance, this digital phenomenon of post-run gloating has become more prevalent. While it functions as its own site and mobile app, MapMyRun enables users to login through Facebook, where the distance and time totals from that day’s run can be posted to their Facebook timelines in a stylish post. What does posting our personal fitness accomplishments through a third party app say about our motivations, as members of a digital community, to workout at all? Are we struggling through that last mile to feel proud of ourselves or to not look like a slow poke to our Facebook friends when we duck out at the last half mile?

Some prime examples of post-workout posts that have been clogging many Facebook home feeds. (Good for you, Roger!)

While I keep my fitness accomplishments to myself, I can understand the need for people to share prideful post-run moments with external sources, as perhaps they are more extroverted and therefore seek validation from others. Introverts, like myself, may be more content simply knowing we beat our best time or, if I’m being honest, even laced up my sneakers on any given day. 

Social media fitness sharing feels almost encouraged. On the MapMyRun homepage, for example, the four simplified features of the app are as follows: “Map Your Route”, “Track Your Activity”, “Log Your Food” and “Share With Friends”. The first three functions clearly relate to the desired product output of setting a fitness goal and achieving it. But the last function of the app - sharing your workout with (virtual) friends - seems to be as motivating for users as being able to track and log your activity, at least in the company’s eyes. A major corner of its fitness app model is built from non-fitness related factors, such as social media sharing.

No matter what reasons one may have to want to track their fitness goals, is posting them for all to see really necessary? Platforms like Facebook teaming up with sites like MapMyRun may have given the social media users the means to shift their motivation for working out from genuinely wanting to be healthier to doing so to make their virtual, social media-driven versions of themselves seem more appealing to the digital consumers’ gaze.

[bryantminqi]

Half kneeling kettlebell over head press 🏋🏻 #kettlebellwork 1️⃣👉🏼it's static hip flexor stretch is even more effective because is cued to activate the same-side glutes and brace the core, so you’re effectively increasing stiffness at an adjacent joint to help “solidify” the newly acquired range of motion into hip extension 😉 2️⃣👉🏼 it's train our core stability, It serves as a great anterior core stability exercise because it’s loaded asymmetrically, it serves as a great lateral and rotary core stability exercise 😊 3️⃣👉🏼 Train thoracic mobility and dynamic stability of the scapula 🙏🏼👍🏼😉 #training #fitnesssharing #urbestxenuf #strengthnconditioning #progressionnotperfection #keeplearning #shoulder #core #stability #mobility #celebrityfitnessmalaysia (at Celebrity Fitness AEON Shah Alam)