A place to talk about fitness and health on Farcaster.

Fitness

I'm learning from this podcast that "jogging", and the idea of "fitness as a lifestyle" is maybe about 50 years old.

Which roughly coincides with the obesity epidemic taking off

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An observation that I don't know what to make of; 

There are certain things (especially living things) that we coddle far more now, than when they were economically valuable. 

 Consider Dogs, Children and especially our own bodies.

Totally, that jives with a similar thought I've had: https://warpcast.com/maurelian/0x7c4745

There's a scene in Mad Men S1 (~1960s) where a character says she went for a run. The response from the rest of the group is "to where?"

As for what it means, probably too much material abundance. Too much food, and too much comfort. Lacking physical work, physical energy must be spent via leisure (sports, gym, etc)

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Yes, I was thinking a little bit about the advent of the suburbs and car culture too.

Probably correlates with how widespread transportation got. Maybe a bit delayed…

obligatory reference
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6nFhcI4tgI