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Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth

1477: Is Social Media Killing Your Gains?

Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth

Sal Di Stefano, Adam Schafer, Justin Andrews, Doug Egge

Fitness, Health & Fitness

4.8 β€’ 12.6K Ratings

πŸ—“οΈ 28 January 2021

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

In this episode Sal, Adam & Justin discuss the negative impact social media can have on health and fitness and provide ways to minimize the downsides of living in the social media age.

  • How social media may be affecting you more than you realize. (3:00)
  • The positives of social media. (7:14)
  • How social media may be killing your health and fitness gains. (8:25)
  • #1 – Making a sedentary lifestyle look cool. (9:52)
  • #2 – Body image issues are becoming more mainstream and disguised as motivation. (14:00)
  • #3 – Becoming aware of its addictive properties. (23:18)
  • #4 – The rise of poor sleep with our children. (25:17)
  • The practices and key takeaways to tackle these issues. (27:35)
  • #1 – Setting time limits and boundaries. (27:50)
  • #2 – Shut off ALL notifications. (31:26)
  • #3 – Keeping your phone in a designated space. (34:14)
  • #4 – Create scheduled breaks. (36:29)
  • #5 – Only follow people who provide you with the most/good healthy value. (39:18)
  • The origin story of #squatandscroll. (43:01)

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0:00.0

If you want to pump your body and expand your mind, there's only one place to go.

0:06.0

Mite, op, mite, op with your hosts.

0:09.0

Salda Stefano, Adam Schaefer, and Justin Andrews.

0:13.0

You're listening to the world's number one fitness health and entertainment podcast.

0:18.0

This is Mind Pump.

0:19.0

Now, today's episode we talk about social media and how it may be killing your gains.

0:25.0

That's right, social media, a very powerful tool.

0:28.0

Might be causing you to not build the muscle you want or get the body you want or burn the body fat that you want.

0:35.0

So in this episode we talk about all the problems that social media might be causing you.

0:40.0

And then we teach you how to develop behaviors or steps to create better behaviors and boundaries around social media for a healthier, more vibrant, meaningful life.

0:51.0

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