Physical education vs Instagram   Educating young people to understand body imag e   Your experience on the topic on school placement While on school placement I found that due to outside influences and pressures, many students are conscious of their body image. I found this with the second year students in particular. I mainly noticed this while doing a HRA unit of learning with the students. The students seemed motivated to do HRA as there was a lot of circuit training involved and both boys and girls remarked how the circuit training would help them ‘get better bodies’. While this was a positive thing as students were participating well in the lesson due to the extrinsic motivation, I do feel that there is too much pressure on young people to have a ‘perfect’ body image due to outside influences on social media, especially Instagram. I often overheard students discussing Instagram posts and social media while in PE and comparing themselves to ...