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This Bodybuilder Fat-Shamed Fellow Gym-Goer To Her Instagram Fans

Mocking someone for going to the gym to get healthy is like mocking someone who is hungry for going to a restaurant. In other words, it doesn’t make sense not to mention how callous and mean it is.

Unfortunately, bodybuilder Diana Andrews didn’t get the memo and shared a photo of a woman on a treadmill on her Instagram story with the caption love handles, followed by a separate post in which she implies that the woman is ordering burgers for delivery.

Her account is now set to private, but not before all 17,000 of her fans and the rest of the world saw her shots.

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Outraged followers shared the photos on Facebook and Twitter, alongside a screenshot of Andrews Instagram profile.

No wonder people are insecure about going to the gym when there are vile people like #DianaAndrews body shaming

— ohmygeeee (@ohmyGEEEE) March 10, 2017

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Guys Chase Deer Through Gym

After a deer sprinted through a gym, these guys chased after it in attempts to catch it and bring it back outside.?

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‘Jujimufu’ is Instagrams acrobatic, bodybuilding sweetheart

When a hulking, blond, curly-haired, 230-pound, 5-foot-11-inch white man introduces himself as “Jujimufu,” youll have some questions. Perhaps youll muse What does that name mean? or What is the origin? Maybe youll even wonder Is that some sort of cultural appropriation? The answers are not as exotic as you might imagine, but just as amusing. And they bely the social media fitness stars not-so-serious approach to a serious business.

Jon Call is Jujimufus real name and he lives in Alabama where he was born and raised. On the phone, he is jovial and friendly, with a gentleness to the way he speaks about his lifes work. Youd never guess that he was the same guy from the viral video showing him bench pressing 100 pounds while doing a mid-air split between two chairs. When the video went viral approximately six months ago, Digg dubbed him Possible Son Of Macho Man Randy Savage. In conversation, hes more Fred Savage.

While he may not hail from one of the early tech epicenters, the 29-year-old was something of an Internet pioneer. Back in 2002, Call became big into acrobatic tricks (better known as tricking) and describes the obsession as an underground sport born online. As he began his research, he noticed a dearth of step-by-step tutorials for people just getting into the tricking game. So at the age of 16, he made the decision to fill that void. Im gonna be the guy who creates the tutorials for these moves, he recalls telling himself.

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A photo posted by Jon Call (@jujimufu) on Sep 18, 2015 at 11:04am PDT

He got to work in his backyard, dismantling the tricks into digestible steps to teach them to himself, and laying the foundation for his future Acrobolix brand. Once he felt comfortable enough with a trick, hed film a video tutorial, and from there, hed share the tutorial on his website and forum TricksTutorials.com.

I was the guy that created the original forum that really took off, he says of the site, which he managed until 2010. This was before the pervasiveness of YouTube, where uploading a video is as simple as one, two, click. Sharing his videos required the time-consuming process of loading them onto an FTP server so that they could then be loaded into his website. Its something the Vine generation couldnt possibly understand, and is something that Call seems to take great pride in.

Call describes running out of server space two or three weeks into each month because he exceeded the hosting services 100 gigabyte transfer bandwidth. Sometimes a random forum commenter would offer up server space, and Call would transfer the videos. If not, hed have to cut video for a week or so just so the website could remain operational through the end of the month. This was the kind of stuff we had to go through to share these videos and spread things around and share what we had, he says. YouTube is a miracle compared to that.

Despite the pains of manually uploading, Call was hesitant to join YouTube. You never know, he says of the ephemeral nature of social platforms. But by 2008, he saw that it was here to stay. After graduating college in 2010 and taking a little Internet hiatus, he began cultivating an audience there, as well as on other social media. Groups of his fans from the early days (who lovingly refer to him as Juji) formed Facebook groups to discuss his latest tips and tricks and share their love for the acrobat, strength trainer, and bodybuilder.

A few years ago, while at the gym, it occurred to him that it was time to form a cohesive brand. Thats when he came up with Acrobolix,a fusion of acrobatics and anabolics.

Thats when he typed in a bunch of random letters, and Jujimufu was born.

With Acrobolix, he developed increased credibility as a respected voice in the online fitness community. By the time he joined Instagram in 2014, the network embraced him. He has more than 170,000 followers on the platform, and his posts rack up thousands of likes. A recent video he shared showed him using one of his students as a weedwacker while others lept over him. It’s landed more than 30,000 likes.

pat + weedwacker = patwacker. Pt2 of (@ramenfood) pat weapon series. #tricking #martialartstricking #landscape #geterdone #jumprope #lethalweapon #childsplay #bodybuilding #crossfit #weightlifting #bodyweighttraining #functionaltraining #wwe #wrestlemania #leapfrog #plyometrics #speedtraining Jukin Media Verified (Original) * For licensing / permission to use: Contact – licensing(at)jukinmediadotcom

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Even though he sees the enormous reach of Instagram, Call still has mixed feelings about it. I find that YouTube is actually better for connecting with people and getting them to get to know you. They get a sense of who you are and trust you more, he says. Whereas with Instagram, I feel more like its an animal in a zoo where a bunch of people are like hey, look at this! Both platforms are really useful in their own ways.

He admits that the anonymity afforded by YouTube has left him exposed to nasty comments, and actually sees Facebook as the platform for having the most open, honest, and respectful discussion of his work. If you read any YouTube comments, theres a lot of trolls and haters. its just a rough place, he says.

As for the original question of his name, much like his entire career, it also would not have been possible without the Internet. When Call was a kid signing up for America Online, he tried to make a screenname that was uniquely his. He tried every combination of of words and letters he could think of, but all of them were already in use. Thats when he typed in a bunch of random letters, and Jujimufu was born. That was something no one had thought of, he says. So I started using it on Web forums and bulletin boards online. People started to get to know me by that name and I never changed it. It helps me not take myself too seriously.

While hes forever indebted to the early fans of TricksTutorials.com, and all the people hes met along the way via Instagram, Facebook, and live events, perhaps he is most grateful for the Internet, in general. When asked where hed be without it, he’s transparent. I wouldnt be anything The Internet is the reason I am what I am, he says.

He adds: I wouldnt have gotten exposed to any of this stuff without the Internet, especially in a place like Alabama. I depend on it. Theres nothing here. Im the only person who does anything like this in my entire area. I had to live and work through the Internet to keep my interest in this and build on this.

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This Anorexic Woman Tried Bodybuilding To Save Herself and the Results Will Shock You

It was clear to everyone, including herself, that Sophie Gajnik was anorexic.

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The big question for the 24-year-old Melbourne native was if she had the strength and desire to conquer her illness.

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As you can see from the pics above, she was very active during her anorexic period, but also woefully malnourished and frail from a lack of nutrition.

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Knowing that she would need a big lifestyle change and support structure to break her old cycle…

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I had long pink hair and if I ran my fingers through it, 50 hairs would come out.”

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Guy Does Amazing Parkour Stunts at the Gym

This guy went to the gym to practice his parkour stunts. He flipped on a balance beam like a boss and hopped on other gymnastics equipment without falling on his butt.

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This Talking Treadmill Prank Had Gym Goers Laughing As They Run

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Working out is hard enough, but how would you respond if your exercise machine started teasing you while you ran? This video from YouTube comedian Stuart Edge puts these gym enthusiasts in the line of fire of a sassy treadmill who can’t wait to motivate them with playful jokes.

Things start off innocently enough with the treadmill doling out the standard talking exercise machine commands. But as their workout goes along the machine suddenly starts responding to their conversations and workout efforts. This treadmill has opinions about your form, your relationships, and your level of effort. No one is safe in this sweaty prank clip.

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Fooling Around at the Gym

This dynamic duo ran all over the gym perform what they called “Stupid Human Tricks.” From lifting each other off the ground to doing a handstand race with a heavy ball between their legs, these people had fun working out together.

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The mysterious Pokmon Go gym at the border of North Korea and South Korea has disappeared

Pokmon Go masters hoping to take over an unclaimed gym could, for a while, have had the chance to rule in a hotly-contested real-world conflict zone. The notorious “Truce Village” in Panmunjom, North Korea, at the border of North Korea and South Korea was actually the location of an unclaimed Pokmon Go gym.

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Shortly after the launch of Pokmon Goif you haven’t been playing it, you probably will before longa curious image began to circulate. The screenshot and accompanying text claimed there was a Pokmon Go gym right at the border of North Korea and South Korea, in the demilitarized zone.

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A search on Google Maps seemed to support this claim, as the road layout of the Panmunjom Joint Security Area matches up perfectly with the paths showing in the screenshot.

Many Pokmon Go players on the original Reddit thread and on social media found the discovery hilarious and offered a virtual high-five to developer Niantic for giving the chance to battle at such a tense real-world location. Unfortunately, the gym’s location and the nearby Pokstop were likely oversights by the development team, rather than deliberate inclusions.

Pokmon Go’s GPS mapping and in-game locations are based on another augmented reality game called Ingress. Ingress allows players to claim locations in much the same way Pokmon Go players make their mark on gyms, and in the very early days of the game, it was actually possible for players to submit their own locations and have them appear as in-game capture points. The Panmunjom area is one of those places.

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In the image above, pulled from the official Ingress mapping site, you can see the two capture points in the exact same locations as those of the Pokmon gym and Pokstop in the original Reddit screenshot.

But before you go running off to North Korea to claim the gym for yourself, you should know that Niantic has already crushed your dreams. Using a GPS spoofing app and a throwaway Pokmon Go account, I ventured to the virtual land and discovered that both the gym and Pokstop have since been wiped off the face of the Earth:

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Welp, there goes our dream of the Korean conflict being settled with a Charizard and Jigglypuff.