I learned a new word yesterday – “Sadfishing”.
According to Wikipedia, it’s a term used to describe the behavioural trend where people make exaggerated claims about their emotional problems to generate sympathy.
Methinks it’s an apt description of the way many fitness dimfluencers and so-called “professionals” behave on social media.
If they’re not crying about how hard their diet is, they’re whinging about their workouts, or otherwise wallowing in a pit of misery and despair complaining about their first-world problems for likes and comments.
Surely, if they find it that hard, and they hate training that much – even some of the time – they’d be better off doing a normal job?
Or maybe not, given how perilously fragile these precious little snowflakes are.
Anyway, it just so happens I know a few of these types in real life. Always complaining about how tough it is to go to the gym and post pictures on social media for validation.
One of them entered a bodybuilding competition recently (despite being grossly overweight with a shockingly high bodyfat percentage the day they stepped on stage – a story for another time).
Our misguided hero was bragging loudly to anyone who would listen about how they came 3rd.
I was suspicious, so asked, “Of how many?”
Que a total meltdown when it transpired our pudgy bodybuilder friend came 3rd…
… of 4.
I’m surprised they admitted the size of the lineup, so credit where credit is due. However, it says a lot about a person’s state of mind if an acquaintance asking a simple question about one of their achievements is enough to make them go postal.
My point?
There isn’t one.
Apart from explaining how the fitness industry – particularly the online fitness industry – is full of a lot of maladjusted characters.
Narcissism abounds, and you’d do well to bear that in mind when judging the merits of what these people have to say.
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