Episode · Stuff You Should Know · 2023-05-25
Books mentioned on The Semi-Recent History of Exercise
Humans exercising for better health has not been around that long. Today we dive into this fun history as we cover why and when we started this now commonplace pastime.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Jogging
Discussed“he published a pamphlet kind of based on stuff Arthur lydiard had been talking about and then eventually wrote this book that I remember seeing on in houses of like friends of mine really for sure uh it was uh it was a very big book it was called jogging colon even back then a physical fitness program for all”
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Aerobics
Discussed“he said I think aerobics is being sold short so he wrote a book in 1968 called aerobics and he said you know running and walking and biking is what people should be doing and that's that was his idea of aerobics at the time”
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Jane Fonda's workout book
Discussed“and the next year she set up her own studio um I think a couple years later she published Jane Fonda's workout book which became an extremely popular bestseller it was number one on the non-fiction list and stayed there for six months by the way two million books”
