![]() You speak mostly in acronyms that none of your family or friends can understand. Nope, definitely don't have any of that in England.ġ6. Clearly Aussies like Kayla are so fit due to the fact that they get to enjoy mysterious things like beaches and sun. You've considered packing up and moving to Australia at least once. "One day, I saw Kayla wearing white Nikes and box braids, so I went out and got white Nikes and box braids."ġ5. You wake up one day and realise that you've started styling yourself exactly like Kayla. We're talking ankle weights, water bottles, yoga mats. Speaking of workout equipment, all of yours is covered in Kayla's branding. They're basically the Regina George of the workout equipment world.ġ3. Your foam rollers are your best friend and also your worst enemy. And if you're not posting your own, you're stalking everybody else's.ġ2. Naturally, you're obsessed with taking progress pictures throughout the weeks. If you’re forcing yourself to do burpees until you want to die, it’s the least a complete stranger on a social media app can do.11. But I can pay it forward and offer a little workout goodwill. I don’t have Kayla’s abs, or even a fraction of her millions of followers. But I found other people, and double-tapped those photos instead. ![]() New Kayla photos uploaded so quickly to Instagram that it’s a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it kind of endeavor. I wanted to ask her what her handle was, but I was late to class, so I made a mental note to search for her in hashtags later. Continue on to Instagreatness.”Ī few weeks ago at the gym, I saw a woman lunging and stepping and squatting in a corner of the otherwise unused group fitness room, and instantly recognized it as one of the first round of exercises in weeks 2 and 4 of Kayla’s plan. I’ll try to scroll through their photos and return the favor when they do, a little double-tap of cheering them on, as if a little digital heart can say “Go further than I did. ![]() And a few Kayla followers will like those photos. The app, however, makes sticking to the plan feel way easier - so much so that I’ve started the program all over again. It turns out I am not the kind of person who needs an army to force myself to work out. The structure Kayla offered finally got to me. Plus, I actually missed the other workouts I’d grown to enjoy at the gym. It was in part because I felt like a voyeur looking in on a community, since I was not about to subject my own Instagram followers to endless photos of my body or my workouts or create a separate account devoted to that purpose - and because I was not all-in, I felt strange for contributing to the hashtags. I did not complete all 12 weeks of Kayla. I lasted seven weeks before I missed a workout - that’s 21 strength, 14 LISS, and 7 HIIT sessions - and another week before I abandoned the plan altogether. The first time I did Kayla, it was with the old-fashioned PDF. ![]() They look tired and happy and positive that what they’re doing is something that will sustain them in the long run. There is ab shot after ab shot, bikini photo after bikini photo, all mixed up with motivational quotes and selfies with protein shakes and beads of sweat on these girls’ foreheads. The users will constantly shout out their personal accounts, but those don’t boast the same numbers as the ones run by the most devoted Kayla disciples, some of which have tens of thousands of followers. Between #bbg, #kaylaitsines, #bbgprogress, #bbgsisters, #thekaylamovement, #thek2movement, and more, it’s extremely easy to get lost in literal millions of selfies, ab shots, and green juices.Ī lot of the most active and most popular accounts in the #kaylamovement are fitness devoted accounts. But it’s a completely different experience to go down the rabbit hole of hashtags, and there are many. ![]() These are the accounts that update their account bios with what week they’re on, and constantly offer comparison photos of their bodies before and after they started Kayla’s guide. It’s one thing to follow Kayla on Instagram, and to read the success stories and progress photos she regrams from women who have completed the program one or more times over. Because Kayla had deemed my photo worthy, so too did other women following the guides.īecause to “do Kayla” is to launch yourself into a community of women who are all doing the same workout to achieve the same kind of abs. Like a super toned goddess from the heavens above, Kayla had acknowledged my presence, and her devoted disciples who checked in on her habits on Instagram’s activity page took notice. Suddenly, I understood the fan accounts that proclaim that a Kardashian had liked a photo, or that some other celebrity had faved a tweet. And then so did hundreds of other people - mostly accounts with some variation of “bbg” (for “bikini body guide”) in their handles. ![]()
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