More and more people are also making use of social media to help connect with other people who enjoy exercise.<\/p>\n
Pia Carson-Moore, 31, from Ipswich, is a personal trainer and dance teacher who set up a women-only run club, external<\/a>, using social media to connect members and organise runs across Suffolk each week.<\/p>\n “It’s really hard if you haven’t found your little group when you’re at school or you haven’t got a little group at work,” she said.<\/p>\n “It’s really rough out there… once I can encourage those people to get out and come along on their own and get chatting to someone else, then hopefully there’ll be an increase of people that they know, [they] start to be a little bit more social and don’t feel so scared to do things on their own.”<\/p>\n Miss Carson-Moore said she believed social media groups that promoted and led to in-person meet-ups could help people make new friends, but felt those that just promoted online talking would not. <\/p>\n