The latest exercise craze on TikTok doesn’t require any exorbitantly priced equipment, but it does require a healthy dose of self-confidence.
This spring, seemingly everyone on the app ― or at least the youths ― has been talking about “Hot Girl Walks.”
Coined by Mia Lind while taking her daily stroll around the neighborhood during the pandemic, taking a Hot Girl Walk is as much about fitness as it is about cultivating a stronger sense of self-esteem.
“In lockdown, I was looking for a type of exercise that I didn’t dread to do and realized the meditative element that comes with going on a long walk,” Lind, an undergrad communications major at the University of Southern California, told HuffPost.
“I also felt that walking had a strong stigma as not being a valid form of exercise so I gave ‘walking’ some rebranding as a Hot Girl Walk,” she said.
In her viral TikTok video, the 22-year-old outlines the three basic tenets of the Hot Girl Walk. On your walk, you should primarily think about three things:
- What you’re grateful for
- How hot you are (naturally, it’s not called a Hot Girl Walk for nothing)
- Your goals and the steps you need to take to achieve them