Niche
How to find lifting log apps Instagram creators
I still start with the same avatar. Instagram is a different room than TikTok. Reels, the grid, and the bio email are different. The person is not.
The person: US English, 22-34, already bounced off Strong’s subscription nag and a notes-app graveyard of PRs, watches ‘I forgot what I hit last week’ and commercial-gym-crowding videos between sets. They watch forgotten last-week numbers, commercial-gym crowding, ‘Strong wants $30 a year for a spreadsheet’, beginner-plate-math. They already tried Strong until the paywall, Hevy they opened for a week, and the iOS Notes graveyard. Skip the enhanced 5am gym influencer whose stack is a storefront.
Instagram lifting is physique grids; TikTok between sets is the forgotten-number rant. Email the rant.
What I actually do on Instagram
Fresh account. Real phones. I try to put myself in the shoes of the person who would download this. Linger, save, like, comment as if I were them. Once the algorithm is trained I take whoever keeps showing up in Reels and in the feed.
Ideally over 50k average. Below that they quote $700 a post for 1k views. That’s a money sink.
Example I want to see: someone standing at the bar, scrolling Notes, and losing the rack. Signal: the same between-set Notes-scroll face two evenings in a row.
I prefer email. The contact is usually in a bio under a training-program Payhip; say this is an app demo, not a program collab. Just send a short note. Name a real Reel. Ask for the phone number. Don’t start the deal over email. If they won’t, move on.
Reels vs FYP
TikTok’s For You is a night session for forgotten last-week numbers, commercial-gym crowding, ‘Strong wants $30 a year for a spreadsheet’, beginner-plate-math. Instagram still has a grid, a bio, and a Shop sticker. Instagram lifting is physique grids; TikTok between sets is the forgotten-number rant. Email the rant.
Do not copy the TikTok outreach into a DM that looks like a bot. The call is still the job. Minimum View Guarantee. Example: $2000 / 4 posts / 1M views. Talent extra.
Like one enhanced physique video and you will never see a commercial-gym beginner again. Doing it by hand is kind of soul-crushing. Scout is $1,500/month.
The TikTok-side essay is How we find creators by scrolling a real TikTok avatar. First person: How I find influencers. Money: jumptrend.co/for/lifting-logs.
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