Healthy Living

  American health gymnasium Before the coronavirus pandemic, America became the sector's largest fitness marketplace, with a predicted industry revenue of $ ninety-six billion in 2019. But, from spin to HIIT classes to pilates to warm yoga to industrial gyms, during the last 50 years, America's obsession with running out has best grown. Author and historian Jürgen Martschukat call time the "Age of Fitness," which he extensively examines in his new ebook, "The Stage of Fitness: How the Body Came to Represent Success and Achievement." What's particularly bizarre about the West's health-mania is that it is not tied to organized recreation, nor to winning a medal, but as an alternative to the goal of "achieving a healthy frame." Unfortunately, that purpose has ended up being a mechanism to perpetuate privilege, Martschukat writes. "This body, in turn, stands for an array of partly overlapping forces, capabilities, and beliefs, which p