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    Hashtag fitspiration: credibility screening and content analysis of Instagram fitness accounts
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    1. jennawoollard 15 Apr 2026
      For example, pre-post between-person experimental studies comparing the effects of viewing different types of imagery (e.g., fitspiration and travel inspiration) have established that, while exposure to fitspiration images inspires fitness, it also results in greater body dissatisfaction and negative mood [7,8,9] and lower perceived sexual attractiveness

      Never should someone's overall goal and inspiration to start their fitness journey come from a place of insecurity or body image issues. The goal in working out or eating healthy should always be to improve your overall physical and mental healths. When we frame fitness as a goal to be thin or look like others online, we end up more dissatisfied than we started. Many of these accounts do more harm than good.

    2. jennawoollard 15 Apr 2026
      Many accounts contained fewer than four fitness-related posts (n = 41), sexualisation or objectification (n = 26), nudity or inappropriate clothing (n = 22), and/or extreme body types (n = 15). Three accounts failed on all four criteria, while 13, 10 and 33 failed on three, two, or one criterion, respectively. Therefore, only 41% of accounts were considered credible.

      This is absolutely ridiculous, so many of these "fitness" accounts are often marked by plastic surgery and aimed to sexualize themselves to their audience, not to inspire real women to work hard to achieve their goals. These accounts and "thinspiration" ideals often just create body image issues among young women, typically leaving to disordered eating.

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