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Patient is attempting a 14-exercise chest routine they saw Bradley Martyn do on Instagram. Has now been on the pec deck for 8 minutes alone. Cannot remember exercises 9 through 14. Did not write them down. Will now do 8 more sets of pec deck to 'make up the volume.' The routine, originally, was 40 minutes.
Chronic. Each week's routine is replaced by a new influencer's.
None. Programming is, apparently, built on Instagram Reels.
Patients with Pathological Fitness Influencer Workout Replication typically present with some or all of the following:
Pathological Fitness Influencer Workout Replication belongs to the Institute's growing taxonomy of behaviors that real medicine has declined to name. It exists, roughly, at the intersection of internet culture, interpersonal friction, and whatever is happening in the lives of our patients. It is fictional and it is everywhere.
Under its Latin label Imitatio gymnica documentata, the condition appears only in the Institute's own catalog. Real clinicians do not recognize the term. They recognize the behavior.
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