In recent years, the topic of a healthy lifestyle has become more and more popular, so new blogs in this segment appear every day. It would seem that this is a storehouse of useful and free information. However, there are several reasons why you should not get involved in healthy lifestyle blogs.
False sense of awareness
You are subscribed to dozens of healthy lifestyle pages on Instagram, VK, and even from old memory, reads the "oldies" from LiveJournal. You read so much on the topic of proper nutrition and training that you already consider yourself a specialist, because you can support any conversation on this topic and enter into an open confrontation with the trainer in the gym. In fact, the sense of your awareness of these issues is false. Yes, you can "pick up" the right thoughts and get a general idea of a healthy lifestyle, but it is impossible to deeply understand the topic only on the basis of blogs. To become a professional requires a fundamental education and a lot of practice.
Loss of connection with reality
How is a good blog maintained? Specific goals are set, content is selected, photographs are carefully processed. Most often, the content of a blog has nothing to do with real life. However, the reader may have a whole gamut of feelings - admiration, envy, a desire to imitate. For example, your favorite blogger is an adherent of a raw food diet, practices fasting for many days and at the same time looks like an athlete before a competition in the fitness bikini category. The keen reader may decide that such a lifestyle is the norm, without even suspecting that a different life may be hiding behind the blogger's dry muscles and fruit plates. As a result, at the very least, you can undermine your health if you blindly follow the picture from the blog.
Unreasonable financial spending
Despite the possible benefits of content, almost any blog has the main goal of making money. Today, this is one of the most successful ways to sell to the reader anything from workout clothes and sports nutrition to a fitness tour or weight loss marathon. If you read this or that blog regularly, many new expenses already seem to you to be a priority and even vital. And now you quietly spend a lot of money on all kinds of stylish bottles, cooler bags, workout rubber bands and beautiful yoga mats. Most importantly, the availability of all these products does not change your health or your figure in any way.
However, even if the blogger does not sell anything directly, it is possible that you just want to acquire something interesting that you saw in the posts.
In the subject, but not in action
When you read a lot about fitness and nutrition, it can feel like you already have it all in your life. You are happy to consider beautiful vegetarian desserts, like photos of pumped up bodies, delve into videos with explanations of exercises. It takes a lot of time and emotional involvement. And now it seems to you that you, too, are a part of this life. However, constant reading of blogs often replaces regular visits to the gym, and staring at diet meals does not mean a healthy diet on your table.
Simple seems complicated
If you read a lot of popular healthy lifestyle blogs for a long time, you may get the feeling that this topic is very complex. The squat technique must be verified to the millimeter, special devices are certainly needed for training, complex and incomprehensible ingredients for the preparation of dietary meals, and dozens of such beliefs are formed. People may forget that often only two things are needed for health - a balanced moderate diet and rational physical activity. Ideal shape and good health can be achieved without "valuable information" about the periodization of training and fat burning drugs.
Wrong knowledge
Is it even possible to trust bloggers who write about a healthy lifestyle? Yes, on the one hand, the information is presented in a very accessible way, and you do not need to delve into complex medical literature. On the other hand, many people perceive blogs as the ultimate truth, because the author's personality is gradually beginning to inspire great confidence. Meanwhile, a blogger can not only make mistakes, but carry malicious information. On the Internet, there are entire groups of victims of the so-called "fitness gurus" who have received serious health problems due to individual nutritional and training systems developed by pseudo-professionals.
