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Stuff You Should Know

The Semi-Recent History of Exercise

Stuff You Should Know

iHeartPodcasts

Society & Culture

4.679.3K Ratings

🗓️ 25 May 2023

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

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.

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podcasts. Welcome to Stuff You Should Know, a production of I Heart Radio.

1:14.3

Hey and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh and Chuck Cier-2 and Jerry's here too and this is Stuff

1:19.4

You Should Know about the history of exercising. I found this super fascinating. Yeah, it is

1:27.9

pretty fascinating. I don't know why. It just grabbed me and I guess it grabbed me earlier because

1:35.0

it was my idea because I think I don't know. Maybe I'd seen Anchorman and they made the Yogging

1:39.8

joke and then I remembered hearing that, you know, exercise is sort of new if you look at not only

1:47.1

the history of humans but the history of America. It's only been around for, you know, 50-ish years,

1:54.7

60 maybe. Yeah, I mean in ancient times they were pretty into fitness but then it kind of dropped

2:00.4

off for a couple thousand years and we picked it up again in 1960 roughly at the very least the

2:06.6

decade of the 60s and like you said specifically in America and the United States I should say.

2:12.8

Yeah. So should we do it? Yeah. The whole thing is that the first half of the 20th century,

2:18.7

it's not like there weren't people exercising right? They were out there. They were just

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