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Over the last decade, the women’s fitness industry has begun to change slowly but steadily. As a culture, we are still not completely satisfied with women choosing to increase their size rather than reduce it. Women’s bodybuilding remains a kind of entertainment sport, partly due to a fundamental lack of understanding of “why.” why Do you feel that women are forced to grow so big? But there are signs of progress. This is probably the strongest evidence of the rise of CrossFit. This is a popular hardcore strength training regimen where enthusiasts are almost 50% female.
When a woman first appeared at the CrossFit gym, journalist JC Herz wrote in “Learn to Breathe Fire: The Rise of CrossFit and the First Future of Fitness.” A more veteran female lifter. “But two months later, these women decided they wanted to climb the ropes or deadlift their weight.” And finally, “their bodies are a by-product of what they can do.” ..
Shannon Kim Wagner, founder of Women’s Strength Coalition, a group dedicated to helping all gender identity members build muscle, describes the weight training experience as follows: Time had nothing to do with shrinking or shrinking myself. I felt that it was radical to look for safety within myself, rather than looking for safety with the approval of others. When I chose to stop shrinking my body, I stopped being for others. “
Today, I am exercising not only for physical fitness but also for mental fitness. I feel the high achievement of endorphins and exercise to manage the low life. I exercise to remember that I can do my best and that I am not alone. Most women I know (and many of the women I interviewed across the country) believe that regular physical activity is essential to their emotional and physical well-being. Mothers in their early 70s call weekly cardio dance classes a “certain source of joy.”
Not long ago, Get in Shape, Girl! When I said. On social media, an acquaintance sent me this note: I completely remember Get in Shape, Girl! And you can sing advertising jingles for you. I grew up chubby and was overweight in college — because I started dieting by the fifth grade. I remember asking for it on my birthday or Christmas. This is what makes me “normal” and means “thin”. Of course it wasn’t. Only in my late twenties and early thirties did I realize that exercise did not have to be disciplinary.
I now know how lucky it is to live in an era where more and more fitness professionals sell exercise as a celebration of what our bodies can do, not as a punishment. An era in which women are encouraged to develop their strengths for ourselves, not for the joy of others.Increasingly, that’s exactly what a woman is conduct.
Daniel Friedman is a journalist in New York City. This essay is adapted from her new book, Let’s Move: How Women Discovered Exercise and Reshaped the World, from the cultural history of women’s fitness.
