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american history tv is on social media. follow us @c-spanhistory. up next, another class from our series lectures in history. hi and welcome to fit nation. we are talking today about 1980s workout culture. this is, i believe now, our third week together virtually. i hope you all are doing well. i m going to go ahead and share my screen with you and we can get right started. okay, great. so as always what we re looking at in this class today is about the rise of the american obsession with fitness, with fitness culture, with working out, even as the united states is not a particularly fit nation and even as, if anything, in the past 75 to 100 years or so that we look at in this course, americans have actually become more and more obsessed with the idea of working out as a symbol or a signal of kind of individual virtue and morality even as the ability to do so and having a, quote, unquote, fit body has become another symbol of inequality in this country. so that s the kind
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