'End of Pandemic' Workouts: How Americans Are Exercising
The Atlantic Life is coming back, and Americans are working out to get ready for it. All pandemic long, I’ve been hunting for a way—please, literally any way—to bludgeon myself into exercising with some kind of regularity. The quarantine life has turned me into an Indian Gollum. My arms, never quite jacked but at least semi-toned, currently have about as much bulk as overcooked linguini. Whatever seedlings of abs I had last March are now buried deep beneath a permafrost of flab. In the spring, I tried an online fitness class studded with motivational mantras so cheesy, you could put th...