Many Happy Miles: The Evolution of Fitness
Another Mother Runner
Feisty Media
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 31 January 2023
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Love history? Love fitness? This episode of Many Happy Miles is for you. The hosts bring on Historian, professor, and mother runner Natalia Mehlman Petrzela, the author of the brand-new book Fit Nation: The Gains and Pains of America’s Exercise Obsession, which offers a very deep (and enlightening) dive into the evolution of the fitness world in the U.S. In this episode, Dimity, Sarah WF, and Natalia cover several topics, including:Â
- The fascinating origins of fitness staples like the Presidential Council on Physical Fitness and the JFK 50 Mile run
- How Jane Fonda became a fitness icon (and other women who paved the way for today’s “fit-fluencers”)
- How fitness has become both “inescapable and inaccessible” in our country, plus Natalia’s visions of creating a more inclusive, stronger future, and more.
You can purchase your own copy of Fit Nation here (we give it five stars!). And follow Natalia (including updates on her half-marathon training) on Instagram.
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| 0:56.6 | Welcome to Many Happy Miles, a podcast that celebrates all type of forward movement, whether |
| 1:06.6 | you're going for an epic hike, a century ride, or your first brisk walk after, say, a boot |
| 1:13.2 | on your foot, we're here to say yay to it all, and bring on guests to inspire you to move |
| 1:18.6 | with joy. |
| 1:19.6 | I'm Dimitie McDowell, co-founder of another mother runner. |
| 1:23.0 | I'm Sarah Westerflin, and I am saying yay to having some excellent performances at the |
| 1:29.6 | County Track and Field Championships last night with my team that I coach. |
| 1:34.0 | That is so cool. |
| 1:35.0 | I've never been a coach, although I love, I mean, I've been on a girls' run coach. |
| 1:41.8 | That's a difference. |
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