Londisa's Fitness Tips

03/24/2026

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NOTE FROM TED: Please do not look to this talk for medical advice. This talk represents the speaker's personal views and understanding of exercise, BDNF and ...

12/20/2024

Group fitness classes aren’t just about exercise, Mikala Jamison writes. https://theatln.tc/z5fhRvrd

When Jamison was teaching indoor cycling, she was the nicest version of herself: “warm, welcoming, and encouraging to the point of profound corniness, despite my usual caustic tendencies,” she writes. People that met in her class started dating; strangers went out for coffee. “These experiences have convinced me that group fitness classes are the best place to make friends as an adult,” she continues, “an idea supported by research that suggests that the glow of exercise’s feel-good chemicals has interpersonal benefits.”

Once, friendships were born in what the sociologist Ray Oldenburg called “third places”: physical spaces that aren’t a home or a workplace, don’t charge (much) for entry, and exist in large part to foster conversation. Group classes don’t quite fit in that definition—they can cost money, and their primary activities are “sweating, grunting, and skipping a few reps when the instructor isn’t looking,” Jamison writes. “But they fulfill many conditions that social-psychology research has repeatedly shown to help forge meaningful connections between strangers: proximity (being in the same place), ritual (at the same time, over and over), accumulation (for many hours), and shared experiences or interests (because you do and like the same things)”—a less awkward way to find people with similar interests than at work or at a party.

Even if you don’t find your next best friend at Zumba class, getting into a fitness habit might help you step out of your comfort zone and make more friends in other spaces.

“A room full of grown adults flailing, shouting, and running miles without ever going anywhere is a fundamentally ridiculous prospect,” Jamison continues. “Ridiculous things, however, play a crucial role in connecting with others: They make us laugh.”

Read more: https://theatln.tc/z5fhRvrd

🎨: Debora Szpilman

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Physical activity guidelines emphasize aerobic exercise as the primary form of exercise leading to improved health. Many guidelines also state that some form of resistance exercise is beneficial. The body of evidence supporting the health benefits of aerobic exercise has a far greater evidence base than those for resistance exercise; however, Phillips & colleagues propose that resistance exercise is emerging as a mode of exercise with greater similarity, rather than disparity, in health benefits as those associated with aerobic exercise.

Learn more in this interesting feature article in ACSM's Health & Fitness Journal: https://brnw.ch/21wEgjy

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