Sangwoon Choi

Fitness should be fueled by the desire for health, not beauty standards

By: Sangwoong Choi, SFU Student Content warning: mentions of eating disorders. On Instagram and TikTok, workout videos are uploaded countless times a day. If you watch enough of them, you’ll likely feel guilty about your body image. It’s almost as if countless influencers are looking at you through the screen saying, “Hey, you there! How long are you going to sit there on your phone without exercising?” Many of these posts advance a narrow set of standards our bodies should supposedly meet to be accepted in society. This is damaging, and it prevents us from accepting our individuality. With the…

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