It seems that, every day, a new brand is popping up, and everyone has become an expert on supplements and training. Hey, there's a lot of great brands and products out there, but there are also those just looking to grab a piece of the money pie.
Just as you can't blindly follow fashion, you can't follow fitness, either.
Everywhere you go somebody is on a diet. Everywhere you go in L.A. there is a no-carb option.
Aerobic dancing is already adjusting to injury problems and will probably phase out to some extent.
Most people who try those bizarre trends are looking for magic bullets. There's usually a sexy promise attached to these trends - related to diet or fitness - that many people find too tempting to resist.
I like to use exercise classes as a way of understanding what people are doing. I'm promiscuous in terms of exercise. You see what people are wearing. You see what people are responding to. You see what the music is they're listening to. An exercise class is social anthropology: what clothes people are wearing, what are the new sneakers.
The word 'aerobics' came about when the gym instructors got together and said: If we're going to charge $10 an hour, we can't call it Jumping up and down.
Humans had run barefoot for millennia, and some still preferred doing so in the modern Stone Age of the mid-20th century, when the handful of people running for exercise often wore whatever they happened to have on at the moment of inspiration.
Pilates has been around a long time but maybe was taboo in this sport. I think it's only a matter of time before you see a reformer in every big league clubhouse.
I've had to focus on the fact that a lot more people don't want to work out in the confines of a gym anymore.
The health industry, the fitness industry, was really starting to pick up. This was around the mid 80's.
It is impossible to solve health problems of millions of people with the help of pills. People need to put it into practice, have passion for it; healthy lifestyle, fitness and sports should become fashionable.
I really think that 'Sports Illustrated' is a big step in the "healthy is the new skinny" movement.
The reason there are so many gyms in London is because the amount of gay people who are here now.
Strong, not skinny, is now sexy, and long workouts are a thing of the past.
