Pumps, CrossFit, Cardio: the formulas for success for anyone who wants a toned body and wants to go for it Fitness center to go. What does this place, where people work side by side on enormous machines several times a week to build their muscle mass, say about our present? Why is the power building that so many here are working on often dismissed as boring, neoliberal and selfish? Isn’t the gym actually the last place for social contacts between classes?
Nina Pauer and Ijoma Mangold answer these questions in the new episode of the ZEIT features podcast The so-called presentin which she describes the shift in body ideals from Michelle Obama’s upper arms to her colleagues Boss transformation to investigate and analyze what the whole thing could have to do with the deep desire for fieldwork.