My petty gripe: why do fitness instructors lie about rep counts? Who hurt them?

If a fitness instructor says eight reps to go, there should be one rep per count, not four, says Nadine Cohen. If they count down from three, it should be illegal to have a chat between two and oneRead more petty gripesI do a lot of exercise. Consider this less a brag and more a heralding of middle age. If I don’t do yoga, my back hurts. If I don’t do weights, my back hurts. If I don’t do reggaeton, well, that kind of makes my back hurt.I prefer class-based workouts because I’m naturally lazy and respond well to authority. No matter the modality, offensively attractive fitness instructors wield numbers as weapons to torment and torture me. Continue reading...

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