In Amanda’s fitness support group on SWEAT, she always created original content and was hoping to get replies in the community, but this week she focused on replying to others to motivate, encourage, and support them on their individual fitness journeys.
Amanda’s goal was to send multiple unique replies to the community since she is on week 9 of continuous workouts. Because of her week 9 status, she has a little knowledge and advice than what she had in the beginning of er fitness journey.
On the SWEAT interface, there is a plethora of tabs that others have uniquely started. Amanda wanted to join at least 10 of these threads to give the community her own support and advice when they were feeling low or down.
Amanda joined the conversation titled “What am I doing wrong?” posted by user Karlas2Marshell. Karla’s concern was that after 3 weeks of consecutively working out, she still can not seem to do pushups, even though she was doing yoga before she started SWEAT and exercises six days a week. When Amanda first started SWEAT, she could barley do a pushup or lay-down pushups. They were nearly impossible. BUT, with continued strength being gained, Amanda could finally do the assigned pushups later in the program.
Amanda replied to Karlas2Marshell’s post saying:
Amanda’s next response was to a post speaking about a new update to the SWEAT app. They just fixed some changes to the app, but people were saying what they would like to see on the next update. This forum was titled Next Update and was posted by KimberliFerro. She wanted to hear what people had wanted to see, and her idea was to be able to track weight strength. Amanda replied to her saying:
Since Amanda has needed lots of motivation from the community, she focused on giving some motivation back to other users who need it. In a post titled Week Four Motivation, user Raniwritght22 informed the community that she was frustrated after not seeing results after week 4. Amanda felt discouraged a little after week 4 too because you do not see changes, but others do. Amanda told her to not give up and that changes would come.
The next post Amanda commented on was a post called “So Sore! What do you do when your sore?” and this was one Amanda knows all too well. Being sore and wanting to go to the gym is the worst struggle. You are in so much pain but you still want to test your body. Soreness is the worst but most satisfying pain. Amanda replied to DelaniXO by saying: 
Amanda enjoyed talking to some girls on the app and giving her advice in, just as much as she liked receiving advice from others! She realized a lot of people do not interact back with the comments once they written, but understood that it is hard to reply to everyone.
When people comment on transformation photos, it makes you feel amazing! Amanda expireneced this last week when she posted her transformation photos for the first time. Here were some of the comments under Amandas transformation photos:
Amanda wanted to continue spreading positivity and encouragement. She commented on multiple threads of transformation photos saying things like:
Amanda continued on and posted on almost every transformation photo she found. She made sure to pay close attention to women who posted who had just began their fitness journey because it is difficult to post when your not feeling the most confident. Fitness is a journey but the sweat community makes it easy and fun to be supportive of others and to feel support and motivation back. This app only spreads love which is an amazing thing to see on the internet, since it can be a cruel place. I have not seen one incentive or rude post on this app, which is very cool. It is a safe space for women to be vulnerable and to find motivation within each other all going through the same journey.
Until next time…
xoxo
-Amanda
Amanda's Fitness Journey 