SOCIAL MEDIA CAN BE GOOD FOR YOU

SOCIAL MEDIA CAN BE GOOD FOR YOU

SOCIAL MEDIA CAN BE GOOD FOR YOU Guest Blog Post By Sally Hughes     In order to achieve your ideal health, fitness, and weight loss goals, building a support team to keep you on track is extremely helpful. While this team often consists of family, friends, a workout buddy, and/or a fitness trainer or nutritionist, solid support, fitness tips and inspiration can also be found online. Yet, with sooooo many web sites and social media portals out there that are focused on health, fitness, and losing weight, where do you find the best fit for your specific goals? And is it really true that social media, itself, can help you shed pounds plus get more fit and healthy? Engaging in social media is a already a highly time-consuming sedentary task and joining more social communities means you’ll be sitting even more (vs. moving your body!) while you do your research. Then again, if you need extra support, social media might just be what you’re looking for!  My thoughts behind this theory stem largely from the fact that social media is about connecting with like-minded individuals as well as finding and following experts in any given field. Plus, since you can literally plug into ANY topic of interest including all things health-related, it makes sense that it might help you lose weight, get fit, and become more healthy in general. And while I’m a trainer not a doctor, I have zero doubt certain social media platforms + a few highly respectable web sites - all of which I use - can help you sculpt your body the right way,...