Reshared post from +The Economist
Archive: Working out is painful and boring. So why bother? To anthropologists of the future the gym boom may look as much like a sinister cult as a commercial triumph. Gym-going, after all, has all the basic lineaments of a religion. Its adherents are motivated by feelings of guilt, and the urge to atone for fleshly sins http://econ.st/VZLJOD
