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Hannah Barry has lifted the lid on the toxic tactics used by fitness influencers and admits she also used to feed fans misinformation.
A fitness influencer has revealed her industry’s most toxic secrets, claiming that everything from targeted fat loss to ab workouts are ‘bull**t’.
Hannah Barry, who admits to using the tactics to deceive her own followers for years, is now exposing them in an attempt to clean up the industry.
The health coach, who works out of the UK, took aim at everything from clean eating to supplements and personalized training in her epic TikTok takedown.
“I used to be a really toxic fitness influencer,” she admitted.
“Now I’m not that toxic, but I wanted to tell you about some of the nonsense that goes on within the industry.”
one-on-one training
The one-on-one training you’re paying for online is likely being carried out by your favorite ‘shades’ of trainers, he revealed.
“Actually, you’re not even being trained by the people who are training you,” he said.
Targeting certain areas
“You can’t reduce fat from the spot,” he said.
This includes stomach fat or arm fat.
She says the only way to reduce these areas is to stay in a calorie deficit until you lose the weight in the desired places.
This will happen in order according to your own genetics.
He said that workouts that target belly fat are useless because you can’t burn fat from specific areas.
abdominal workouts
She says these are posted “purely out of commitment” and admitted she never actually did any of the ones she promoted online.
“They just get millions of views,” he admitted.
‘Abs workouts don’t build abs at all.’
Instead, he tells his followers to do heavy squats, deadlifts, and heavy compounds.
“Your body fat percentage will determine how visible your abs are and it comes down to what you eat.”
Viral workouts in general
The next viral workout you responded to is treadmill training that recommends specific inclines and paces to reach your weight and physique goals.
“Also bull,” he said.
She admitted to sharing her own ‘bull**t’ workouts, because they were more likely to go viral.
Not taking rest days is also dangerous, but it has become popular with viral “discipline” based fitness approaches.
supplements
According to the trainer, hormone-balancing shakes, cleanses, and detoxes are useless.
“You have a liver because your liver detoxifies your body for you,” he said.
While he believes that protein supplements are good, he cautions that they are not magic.
His video series takes aim at most tenets of online fitness influencers.
“If you start taking protein supplements but don’t eat enough overall, you won’t get the results you want,” he said.
Food
Eating clean is a myth and sugar does not make you fat, according to the young woman.
“The only people who don’t need to eat gluten are people who don’t tolerate it,” she said.
She also warned that there are many people with eating disorders in the fitness influencer community.
She said clean eating tricks your brain into thinking fast food is “bad.” She says it’s important not to categorize foods into good and bad.
It works?
“The only thing that really causes fat loss is being in a calorie deficit,” he said.
“So whether you decide to stop eating after 6pm, which is fucking miserable, cut out the gluten, stop eating white bread, your body doesn’t care.”
He added that it’s ridiculous to assume that someone’s health is based on their appearance.
Hannah also revealed that major influencers would ask her for the rights to their own transformation photos.
She said that women would offer her money for her photos showing her overweight, underweight and with a strong physique.
“They wanted to sell them as if he had done his exercise program,” he said.