Nonfiction

Fit Nation: The Gains and Pains of America's Exercise Obsession

Fit Nation: The Gains and Pains of America's Exercise Obsession

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  • Create Date：2023-01-04 06:19:38
  • Update Date：2025-09-08
  • Status：finish
  • Author：Natalia Mehlman Petrzela
  • ISBN：B09Z762FH8
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Reviews

Sharondblk ，

I was given an eBook from NetGalley and the publisher in exchange for an honest review。 first came across Natalie through a podcast she did about the Chippendales， and then I followed her on Instagram and signed up for her mailing list， so i was thrilled to receive an Advanced reader Copy of this book， and it did not disappoint。 Petrezela approaches her topic with a gender， class and privilege at the forefront of her research。 This book is accessible， sympathetic and most of all - interesting。

Morgan ，

Fit Nation does a fantastic job of laying out our obsession， as a country， with fitness and weight loss。 While some people/fitness crazes were familiar to me， I still learned quite a bit。 There were parts that did drag on a bit but I believe it was mostly due to my interest in certain parts of history over others。 Thanks to Netgalley and The University of Chicago Press for the E-ARC in exchange for an honest review。

Anthony ，

Weighed down by presentism and lazy citations， the only thing that Fit Nation exercises is the ideological bona fides of its admittedly exercise-obsessed author。

Rebecca Brenner Graham， PhD ，

professor and fitness instructor Natalia Petrzela combines her vocations in her second book， Fit Nation， which fuses extensive primary research and thorough engagement with secondary literature to offer the first complete history of American fitness culture。 book engages so deeply with American culture and politics that it could effectively serve as a textbook for twentieth-century history of the U。S。 also very long: four hundred pages。 perhaps what’s most outstanding about Fit Nation is that du professor and fitness instructor Natalia Petrzela combines her vocations in her second book， Fit Nation， which fuses extensive primary research and thorough engagement with secondary literature to offer the first complete history of American fitness culture。 book engages so deeply with American culture and politics that it could effectively serve as a textbook for twentieth-century history of the U。S。 also very long: four hundred pages。 perhaps what’s most outstanding about Fit Nation is that during a key moment for history and ‘the public，’ while most scholars yearn to translate academic history for ‘the public，’ Petrzela actually applies a rigorous academic lens to everyday people and daily life。 doing so， she bridges distance between historians and the ‘public’ better than most can imagine。 。。。more