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\u201cAnd two of the key features of this [New Frontier] that these adventurers have inadvertently pointed out are the prominence of women and the acceptance of strength training.\u201d (2)<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cI might have considered that the brain is part of the body, that the two are in fact one: if you\u2019re treating yourself like a sewer, you\u2019re bathing your brain in shit.\u201d (6)<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201c…it dawned on me that the state of your body isn\u2019t something you either choose to care about or leave be, for your body never just is\u2014it is always either decaying or getting stronger. Not choosing is still a choice.\u201d (7)<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cThe practicing life demands one continually reform and reevaluate one\u2019s habits as part of a process of deliberately shaping one\u2019s existence.\u201d (9)<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201c…the New Frontier athlete trains for life\u2014to improve how she meets it and to deal productively with its pathos.\u201d (20)<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cThe more committed somatic explorers of the New Frontier embrace an asceticism that harks back to the old Greek forms, a secular stepping aside from the rush of life to train, focus, meditate, learn, and recharge.\u201d (22)<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cThe beautiful means is training, and the painful labor entailed by it makes training a romantic endeavor, a heroic endeavor.\u201d (38)<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cThis too is another way that in ancient Greece beauty is invested with moral goodness, for in perfecting his appearance through training the athlete is also studying himself, examining his life.\u201d (40)<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cGreek images of ideal male forms were not simply artworks to behold or worship, they were the outward embodiments of something each citizen carried within himself\u2014an ideal inner statue that we must work hard to reveal.\u201d (45)\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cExercise for health or aesthetic reasons tends to occur only at times when there is reasonable expectation of a long life and when people have the material abundance and leisure to formulate conceptions of what the Greeks called <\/span>eudaemonia<\/span><\/i>, the good life.\u201d (67)<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cFrom Jahn to Yasin-Bradley, people have recognized what the Greeks first proposed, that gymnastics is inherently political: the state is not only like a body, it is composed of bodies whose physical expressions can either support or rebel against it.\u201d (103)<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cAnd therein lies a truth that hasn\u2019t fully penetrated into popular consciousness\u2014that our standards of beauty (and attractiveness), be they for people or artworks, are entirely conditioned by our experience. There is no pattern of the beautiful, no essential form that all people find attractive.\u201d (123)<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cRather than a series of startling new advances, the history of fitness seems to be a cycle of forgetfulness and rediscovery.\u201d (133)\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201c…appearing fit and being fit (or looking good and feeling good) are not the same thing: there are plenty of guys with muscles (some who smoke or take steroids) who can\u2019t run a mile; there are sleek women who can\u2019t do a single push-up; and there are skinny-fat people who drop dead of a stroke or heart attack, every day.\u201d (136)<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201c…how we look is not an accurate guide to what we can do, and that workouts designed to sculpt the body to a particular standard are not necessarily those that will make us fittest.\u201d (137)<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cRather than shaping the body, the performative mode shapes a life\u2014its aim is a better person, internally as well as externally.\u201d (160)<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201c[Bonnie Prudden] blamed their lethargy on what she aptly called the \u2018tyranny of the wheel\u2019\u2014the stroller, school bus, and car, which is to say the inherently sedentary conditions of modern life.\u201d (210)<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cAnd, as the catalyzing agent of the fitness boom of the seventies, women didn\u2019t just open doors for themselves\u2014they fundamentally altered the way a vast number of people in the world relate to their bodies.\u201d (233)<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201c…NFF devotees whose lives are similarly structured by their physical practice\u2014affecting how they eat, how much they drink, when they go to bed and how long they sleep, what clothes they wear, who they spend time with, the sorts of information they might want to gather about themselves, their sense of their abilities and limitations\u2014can seem freakish. Fitness as a life-shaping practice is strange because it is so new thus unfamiliar.\u201d (254) <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cAnd two of the key features of this [New Frontier] that these adventurers have inadvertently pointed out are the prominence of women and the acceptance of strength training.\u201d (2)   \u201cI might have considered that the brain is part of the body, that the two are in fact one: if you\u2019re treating yourself like a … <\/p>\n

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