The 50 Year Workout: Rethinking the exercise of our time
Some of us avoid exercise: why? PhysEd researcher Brian Culp says a more inclusive, less sports-oriented high school education can help. Historian Jürgen Martschukat argues that the pressure to keep fit at all comes less from us, and more from political and economic forces.
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Lisa Godfrey ·
Posted: Jun 23, 2021 5:54 PM ET | Last Updated: June 23
Participants attend a yoga class on the Edge Observation Deck, overlooking the Manhattan skyline, in New York, June 17, 2021. Historian and author Jürgen Martschukat reminds us that widespread exercising did not exist in the West before the 1970s.(Ed Jones/AFP via Getty Images)