I used to compare myself with people on Instagram and I’ve seen how the social media site works. My page used to have more than 10,000 followers. On Instagram you see fitness models that apparently have a sixpack year round, yet still party every weekend. You see people that are able to bench press twice their body weight effortlessly, with a one-digit body fat percentage. When asked how these people have achieved these feats, they usually point out basic things: training and genetics. Yet the answer is much simpler: the truth is that steroid use, photoshop and fake weights are far more common than you think. In this article I want to show you all of the former, so you know that you aren’t setting unrealistic standards for yourself. Why fitness figures on Instagram can’t be trusted Apparently Ben Affleck gained more than 30 pounds of lean muscle for his role in Batman vs. Superman. While such feats of human recomposition are awesome, they’re most likely a huge exaggeration. Yet