These Instagram reel ideas for athletes are designed to help you build your brand and grow your social media community. Have fun!
Transformation Instagram Reel ideas for athletes
- String together clips from each year of doing your sport
- When you first started your sport vs now
- Doing a drill then showing the skill
- Last year’s highlights vs this year
- Fail video vs a success video
- Practice vs competition
Motivational Instagram Reel ideas for athletes
- Voiceover about the biggest goals you set and the journey you took to achieve them
- Share the biggest challenge of your sports career and how you overcame it
- Share a past failure and how you turned it into fuel for later success
- Sync clips of your athlete life to a motivational speech audio
- Tell people how you deal with fears, doubt, or uncertainty
- Use a quote from a coach or teammate as inspiration
- Share a motivational lesson you’ve learned
Funny Instagram Reel ideas for athletes
- Show an embarrassing moment from a game/competition
- Caption silly photos/videos from your sports career
- Show the not-so-great sports photos you’ve gotten
- Tell a funny story from your athletic career
- Silly POV memes related to athletics
- Use funny CapCut templates
Behind-the-scenes Instagram Reel ideas for athletes
- Voiceover or text-to-speech of what you’re thinking during a game/competition
- Share something you don’t think your audience knows about you/your sport
- Getting ready for a game/competition behind the scenes
- Answer commonly asked questions in a video
- Show the drills you do on a regular basis
- Your warm-up or conditioning routine
- Share your sports superstitions
- Media day behind the scenes
- Travel day behind the scenes
Lifestyle Instagram Reel ideas for athletes
- Get ready with me for a practice/game/competition (hair/makeup/talking)
- Sync various clips from your day to a trending audio
- Vlog throughout a practice session
- Vlog a game/competition day
- Getting ready for practice
- What you eat in a day
- Morning routine
- Evening routine
- Day-in-the-life
Friends and teammates Instagram Reel ideas for athletes
- Have your teammates imitate an athlete or coach from your team
- Have each of your teammates try a crazy or viral athletic move
- Ask each of your teammates silly interview questions
- Capture random moments – teammates in the wild
- Film a fun contest (race, strength competition, etc.)
- “I’m handing the phone to someone who…”
- Remix/duet one of a teammate’s video
