Ever felt like going for a workout in the evening but find little or no motivation to do so?

Here’s a solution: Tweet about it.

This is what Liz Paul did. It was 9pm on a Sunday and it is only natural that she couldn’t find the motivation to get up from the couch and do a workout. One tweet changed all of that.

She tweeted, “…it’s 9pm on  a Sunday and I didn’t work out… I really shouldn’t go run in the dark should I?”

Within moments, she got responses from a legion of supporters telling her “Yeah! Go run!”

Others offered her other workout options such as static workouts but basically, everybody drove home the point to her that she should get up, do something and stop being lazy.

End result: Liz eventually went out for a 3-mile run. Mission accomplished.

According to researchers from London, people who take to social media to broadcast their exercise or diet regime have lost “significant amount of weight.” Assistant Professor Christopher Wharton from the Arizona State University claims that “it’s the social push that helps make people accountable”.

Losing weight is not only physically painful, but also emotionally draining and borderline demoralising when the results are not immediately visible despite a drastic change in lifestyle. This is also where social media comes in to make things easier for the individual by being able to allow him or her to connect to others for some encouragement and motivation despite being physically dispersed from the ones whom he or she is connecting with.

Many health and lifestyle apps are now able to synchronise the individual’s fitness data into various social media platforms like Facebook or Twitter. One such example would be Garmin Connect, a fitness analytics app that tracks mileage, power output, heart rate and what not over a period of time.

So next time you wanna burn some calories, be sure to post about it! Chances are, you will be much more likely to overcome the lethargy and exercise!

Adopted from:

http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2014/10/06/353505527/social-media-the-new-weapon-in-the-battle-to-lose-weight