This Tuesday, April 25, Juju Fitcats posted a new video on her YouTube channel in which she explained the reasons why she decided to stop showing her sports sessions so much on social networks.
Juju Fitcats has decided to take a step back! The fitness youtuber followed by more than 2.8 million subscribers published a video on Tuesday April 25 entitled “I stop everything” (to see here). She came back with honesty on the reasons why she shows much less than before her sports training on social networks. The young woman first explained to her community that she suffered from pericarditis in January 2022 (an inflammation of the pericardium which is accompanied by swelling at the level of this membrane, in particular due to an excess of fluid circulating between the pericardium and the heart, editor’s note). Because of this serious health problem, Juju Fitcats was hospitalized and unable to train for over six months. She also confided in her video that she was afraid of falling back into anorexia and eating disorders.
“I really needed to reclaim the why of how I train”
During this video, the sports youtuber wanted to explain to her subscribers that it was normal “to practice a sport without a goal”, which she sometimes found difficult to accept. “I have the impression that we forgot that pleasure sport existed”, she then explained, referring to the terrible pressure created by social networks. Juju Fitcats thus confided that she had no sporting objective for the moment, and wanted to normalize this state of mind. She then confessed that this was one of the reasons why she didn’t show her workouts on social media as much as before. “And that’s also why it’s been a while since you necessarily see stories of me working out at the gym, that I don’t necessarily tell you about my workouts, that I don’t necessarily talk about not necessarily sport either on my YouTube channel because I believe that after the health concerns I had, I really needed to reclaim the why of how I train”, she confessed.
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“I felt like I had to film each of my workouts”
The fitness youtuber made a point of explaining to her community that if she trains, it’s first and foremost for her, and not to motivate others or show it on social networks. “I felt like I had to film each of my workouts almost to prove that I was training… There’s also that, we compare ourselves so much, whether to ourselves or to others, that after a while in fact , as soon as you go to the gym, you almost have to justify yourself”, she confided. Before concluding, “I realized that the networks had molded me a bit in this side ‘I have to prove that I train, I have to prove that I still train as well’ (…) I think I have I needed to get away from it all.”
