Quick, pull up this month’s social media account of choice. Now, glance through the activity of your family, friends, coworkers, and hundreds of remote acquaintances. If this article has any truth to it, you’re seeing a totally unrealistic perspective on their lives, the best moments of their week, month, or year and not much else. Our online personas are idealized versions of ourselves, the people we want the world to see.

There’s no doubt in my mind that Athletes are the worst offenders out there. We’ve all done it – you quietly reject that embarrassing tag from Saturday night, only to upload the full-length, timestamped video of your 5:30AM Tuesday Fran PR a few seconds later. Everything is under control here people!

That said, at least your Fran video has a good chance of inspiring someone else to make fitness a priority in their lives. When I look at the social media pages of my friends from the gym, I see a lot of smiles and accomplishments, and those are great endorsements for our sport.

Unfortunately, I see just as many photos showing what can only be described as “the aftermath.” You know the poses I’m talking about – that one where the Athlete might as well have a chalk line around them, that one with the adorable sweat angel, or that one of the athlete feeding the bushes out back.