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Fitness Trends & Busts: A Look at the Past and Future of Fitness

This week, Tina looks back (and forward) at the highs and lows of fitness trends over the years.

Fitness is a multi-billion dollar industry that produces a continual stream of fads and trends.  History has a way of repeating itself, and many of these fads get resurrected decades later – even when they did not work the first time.  But we still search for that magical bullet – the surefire way to finally lose weight and get buff. Who knows what the future has in store for the fitness world?  What if someone told you that by taking a magic pill daily, you'd have no need to exercise?  Would you trust them?  Would you do it? Because some of the past fads in fitness are not that far off from a magic pill, consider the "passive exercise" trend. The Vibrating Belt machine & Gloria Marshall's Figure Salons I can clearly remember my aunt's …

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