Why do you exercise? To check something off your to-do list? To look a certain way? To feel a certain way? To get stronger? To get more flexible? To win a race? Because someone told you to?

Regardless of how you “workout” and why you do it (or choose not to), you’re in for a treat on today’s episode. Our guest today, Danielle Friedman, is an award-winning journalist whose writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Cut, Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, Glamour, Health, and other publications. Her first book, Let’s Get Physical: How Women Discovered Exercise and Reshaped the World, will be released from Putnam (Penguin Random House) on January 4, 2022. 

Today she chats with us on the history of exercise and delves into how we got to the place where women populate gyms, athletic competitions, the Olympics, and more. Spoiler alert: this wasn’t always the case in the past, and guess what? Sports bras were only created in the 1970s!

What seems like just a history book on exercise turns into a call to female empowerment and raising the consciousness of female strength. I highly recommend the book!

Connect with Danielle:

Instagram: @DanielleFriedmanWrites

Twitter: @DFriedmanWrites