On and off the treadmill of fitness trends
almost 7 years in Star Advertiser
Do you remember Face-o-Metrics? How about FloMotion? Or kitchen calisthenics? Me neither. But The New York Times recorded these and many, many other modern fitness fads, an exhausting — and often poignant — chronicle of pain, gain and some very peculiar practices. Taken as a whole, the paper’s coverage of the last half-century of exercise recalls the old joke, Samuel Johnson by way of Oscar Wilde, about second marriages: a triumph of hope over experience.
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