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Part One: How the First Fitness Influencer Doomed Us All

Behind the Bastards

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Is That the First Personal Trainer?

Bernard may have been the first personal trainer in history. Bernard had noticed that farm animals became well by abstaining from food when ill. He wrote up his findings and submitted them to a wide variety of newspapers and magazine. His fitness philosophy was starting to jell, lots of exercise, limited calories, non traditional cures.

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