You’ve seen them on social media. You know the ones. Girls in Adidas sports bras and matching shorts or yoga pants, posing in front of a mirror with gym equipment visible in the background. Or perhaps a photo of a perfectly manicured hand outstretched, holding an expensive smoothie or freshly squeezed juice from the trendy juice bar near the gym. Messy buns held up by a neon pink headband, but the bun is a little too perfectly messy, as if they did it on purpose.

I’m talking about fitness culture.

And no, I’m not saying anything negative about fitness. We all want to be fit and healthy, and that’s perfectly normal. However, when the image of getting fit is exclusively white girls with already-toned bodies and expensive meals, people kind of forget what the whole point of it is.

I’d love to be as fit and toned as all those fitness-guru types on Instagram and Twitter, but a lot of the time, their diets or workout routines require something that not everyone has — money. They make healthy lifestyles into somewhat of a competition: Who can get a membership to the best gym? Who can prepare the healthiest (and undoubtedly most expensive) meals and who can have the cutest gym outfit?

These people pride themselves on being helpful and inspirational to people who genuinely want to lose weight, but the majority of people (myself included) just can’t do what they do. I don’t have $100 to drop on a gym membership every month, nor do I have the means to buy supplemental smoothies or a plethora of healthy ingredients to prepare meals every night.

I need real tips. Real ways to get fit without the cost. I don’t care about the brand of your workout gear or what gym you go to. In my experience, these people being the “face” of modern fitness does little besides discourage real people who really want to get fit. Elitist attitudes make people who actually need to work out feel like they don’t belong.

These fitness gurus on social media swear that anybody can get fit, yet they’re the same people who scowl when a bigger person is on the elliptical machine next to them, and they’re the workers who exchange glances when that person walks into Juice For Life to order a chicken wrap.

I’m not saying that these people should stop promoting healthy lifestyles. Of course they're inspirational to some people. They just present fitness as something not attainable for everyone. Don’t get me wrong, I’d rather people be encouraging fitness than the opposite, but it can be seriously discouraging and even dangerous. These Instagram feeds have even been compared to a gateway drug; what starts out as something harmless and just for inspiration can turn to obsession or extreme behavior. And some of the diets and workouts promoted by these people can actually be damaging.

Give me real people who started out unhealthy and reached their goal. Give me real exercises I can do at my house; give me food I can prepare on a budget. Let’s make workout culture more representative of the people who need it, and less about people who just want to show off how much money they can spend in the name of fitness.