Your Fitness Resolution Might Be Easier If You're Rich

This is the first of two posts that explore the geography of fitness. The availability of indoor fitness centers reflects broader divides of class and place.

Once again this New Year, the media is filled with fitness and lifestyle experts invoking Americans to eat better, work out more, and get in shape. While it’s hard to argue with such advice, the reality is that our very ability to work out and stay fit depends on our class position and where we live. The availability of fitness venues is yet another dimension of America’s great divide along class and geographic lines.