Barre Class Started As A Sex Class (And Other Lessons In Women’s Fitness History)
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How Did Bar Work Out Start?
There's a growing number of bar instruct instructors who are kind of trying to resurrect the original lotdy burke technique. In recent years, she's become this folk hero among one part of the fitness community. And it's so interesting, also, how far bar has gone from there. Like, yet nobody really, it's almost weird to talk about sex now, and bar lotally totally ye. So where did it start? My book begins in the 19 fifties. There were absolutely periods of physical activity for women fore then, and you can trace women's exercise back to ancient greece. But the 19 f50s is really when the contemporary fitness industry began to emerge
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