Wacky Workouts: 8 Unexpected Fitness Fads

8 Unexpected Fitness Fads
SUBWAY's Jared helps Olympic gold medalist Apolo Ohno during a workout to introduce the new limitedᅡᅠeditionᅡᅠSUBWAY bag to encourage healthier lifestyles at Clinton Cove in New York on Wednesday June 12, 2013. (Photo by Mark Von Holden/ Invision for Subway/AP Images)
SUBWAY's Jared helps Olympic gold medalist Apolo Ohno during a workout to introduce the new limitedᅡᅠeditionᅡᅠSUBWAY bag to encourage healthier lifestyles at Clinton Cove in New York on Wednesday June 12, 2013. (Photo by Mark Von Holden/ Invision for Subway/AP Images)

It used to be that hunting for things to eat and running from the clutches of wild beasts was enough to keep the body fit. Then there was farming and the basic manual labors of life to keep us trim. But sometime after the industrial revolution, conveniences became plenty, we moved to cities, and we started getting weak and pudgy -- which also contrasts wildly with the wisdom of the experts and the Western ideal. What to do? Exercise!

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