I joined a fitness and health support group called SWEAT this past week. This website and app was designed by the online fitness trainer I am currently use, Kayla Itsines. She created her program for a way to feel woman connected while in the process of transforming their bodies.
The SWEAT forum is the perfect place to connect with women who are focused on their health and fitness while simultaneously sharing experiences and aspirations with the community, supporting and motivating each other, and growing in their fitness goals.
The main goal of this support group is to feel supported in Kayla’s SWEAT fitness program, while supporting others. On the forum page of this website you can join, post and reply to community members in multiple threads including Introduce Yourself, Oriented Fitness Goals, Food and Nutrition, Motivation and Encouragement, Workouts, Exercise and Education, Moms and Families, Sweat Suggestions, and “In Your Area” designed specifically for meet ups. These threads make the SWEAT app a little less daunting while connecting you with community members who are like-minded.
In my first week I spent approximately 5 hours dabbing into these different threads, and even creating my own discussions.
I started with the Introduction so that I could properly introduce myself to the community. 
I only got one ‘like’ but thats okay! I know a lot of people in the community might not read introductions. I decided to explore the introduction page a bit to see if there were any college students like myself wanting to get healthier and happier through fitness, and to my surprise there were many! The main age range using SWEAT was anywhere from 22-35. This was the perfect support group for me.
The next day on SWEAT, I felt comfortable enough to create my own discussion with the hopes that people would respond to it. I was curious about what others do for Low Intensity Workouts. On the Kayla Itsines program, she creates a 3-day gym workout plan with 3 “low intensity workouts” in between gym days. I usually cycle or walk, but I was curious what others do, so I inquired it through the community. I got 2 responses to my thread!
I enjoyed these reponses and I will possibly start jumping rope just like Zazie to get that low-intensity workout in!
I played around on the community and started adding to peoples discussions and threads since it made me feel good when people took time out of their day to respond to me. 
In one area of discussion, a college student who was in the same week as me on these workouts and doing the same program as me was looking for a power buddy to keep each other accountable for working out. I saw her post, commented on it and then reached out to her to get her Instagram handle and WhatsApp username so that we could hold each other accountable to stay on our fitness journey and complete our goals. Attached was her original post and my response:
This was a really cool thing and how I got to see the community working together and encouraging each other. Her thread got very popular and people of all ages and weeks of workout wanted to join. This group is so supportive and encouraging and I am so excited to continue exploring and expanding my workout journey and fitness goals on SWEAT.
Until next time…
XOXO
-Amanda LeHaf
Amanda's Fitness Journey 