Personal fitness for women used to be considered unladylike. That all changed with fitness pioneers like Lotte Berk and Judi Sheppard Missett. But look closer and there’s much more to the story than ...

Sheinelle Jones speaks to experts Danielle Friedman, Dr. Kameelah Phillips, Leta Shy and Vanessa Rissetto about the history of fitness for women, the benefits of exercise, how to find the perfect ...

So-called "swoletariats" are exercising for the resistance. The Swoletariat: a history of leftist fitness (SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC) ANGEL GONZALEZ: The first guy was, like, I go on jogs and he was, like, ...

From military-style drills to risky rope climbs, these once-common school gym routines defined a generation—but would they still make the cut in modern classrooms?

Meet the foremothers of fitness, and the people still making history today, in the history of women's fitness with Danielle Friedman. A female marathoner run off the road by an irate race organizer. A ...

Fitness testing for youth emerged from the field of physical education, which has a long-standing history of fitness testing. Over the years, social and political circumstances have dictated the ...