FROM: The death of hanging out

One small part of his post jumped out at me: the fact that we are exercising more but we also tend to do that alone.  Maybe I just recognize myself in this, as a longterm gym denizen? But I think it points to something deep about this reluctance to get to know each other.

He writes:

As I wrote in an essay last year on the “great American exercise boom,” the evidence suggests that, despite the increase in running clubs, the surge in exercise time seems to be mostly solo. A lot of people are going to the gym with a podcast to keep them company (e.g., me) or rolling out a yoga mat in the basement by herself (e.g., my wife).

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