In addition to the psychological impact, there are physical risks associated with following online fitness trends.<\/p>\n
The experts cautioned that some activities may not be suitable for all individuals, and may even result in over-exertion or injury for some people.\u00a0<\/p>\n
This is often due to their high intensity and specificity in the muscle groups trained.<\/p>\n
Ms Nur Amelina Azlan, a physiotherapist at Heal360 Physioclinic, said: “For example, pilates is very postural, very focused on the core muscles, whereas something like your spin class is more cardiovascular.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“But what we need is both elements together, not just one over the other.”\u00a0<\/p>\n
MAKING FITNESS “FIT” YOU\u00a0<\/p>\n
So, if what works for other people may not be the best for different people with different needs, how does one find what works for oneself? \u00a0<\/p>\n
Mr Martin John, clinical director at Orchard Health Clinic, which offers physiotherapy among other services, said that the first step is to be honest about your starting point.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“How is your energy? How is your sleep? How stressed are you? How much do you sit? How well do you move?\u00a0<\/p>\n
“Those are important questions because exercise should match the person, not the trend.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In addition to the psychological impact, there are physical risks associated with following online fitness trends. The experts…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":704874,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[3445,49,48,408,407,84,4024,17140],"class_list":["post-704873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fitness","tag-burnout","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-exercise","tag-fitness","tag-health","tag-healthy-lifestyle","tag-workout"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=704873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704873\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/704874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=704873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=704873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=704873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}