TW: Fatphobia
We shouldn’t assume a trainer’s - or any health professional’s - health status just by looking at them. In fact, we shouldn’t judge ANYONE’s health status just by looking at them.
The way they look has NOTHING to do with their capabilities and knowledge.
Also, just because someone is in a bigger body, it doesn’t mean they are unhealthy.
Health is multi faceted and there is no one way to be “healthy”.
But even if that fitness professional wasn’t “healthy”, it doesn’t mean they’re a bad trainer and not capable of helping those around them set health related goals and program workouts.
Also, a trainer’s fitness abilities - whether they are “fit” or not - doesn’t affect how good they are at their job or the skills and knowledge they have.
Many things can affect someone’s fitness level. Having to take care or a loved one, injuries, needing to train differently, getting sick, healing their relationship with exercise, etc might all mean that person has less time to move their bodies which can affect their fitness level.
That doesn’t change how good and qualified of a trainer they are.
To the person who made that fatphobic tweet, how dare you undermine trainers that don’t look like the “fitspo norm”.
How do you think your fat clients feel when they read your tweet?
Stop perpetuating weight stigma by encouraging the thin = healthy or “in shape” rhetoric
