Reviews

• The New York Times: ThighMasters, Jazzercise, Yoga and Other Chapters in the History of Women and Exercise

• The New Yorker: Muscle Memory

• The Atlantic: For Women, Is Exercise Power?

• Financial Times: Exercise — How It’s Changed From the Greeks to Today

• The Daily Mail: Book of the Week

• New York Post: Buzz Book

• The Week

• Publishers Weekly

• The New Statesman: The Politics of Working Out

• BookPage

• Shelf Awareness

• AudioFile Magazine: Earphones Award Winner

Excerpts and adaptations

• The New York Times: Exercising to Slim Down? Try Getting Bigger.

• The Wall Street Journal: How Jane Fonda Made Fitness a Feminist Cause

• InStyle: How the Leotard Dress Code of the 80s Set the Stage for Your Yoga Pants

• Popular Science: If You Love Your Workout Gear, Thank the Girdles and Flexatards of the Past

• Lit Hub: The Right to Potential: On the Dramatic History of Women’s Elite Running

• The Sunday Times (UK): And… Stretch! The Ladies in Lycra Who Took Female Fitness From Britain to the World

• The Scotsman Magazine (Scotland): The Good, the Bad, and the Plain Silly

Lists

• The New Yorker: Best Books of 2022

• Financial Times: Best Books of 2022

• The Irish Times: Best Books of 2022

• Washington Post: 10 Noteworthy Books for January

• Good Morning America: These January Books Can Get Us Through Anything

• Bustle: The Most Anticipated Books of January 2022

• Lit Hub: ​​15 New Books to Help You Accomplish Your 2022 Reading Goals

• AudioFile’s Best Audiobooks of February

• BuzzFeed: 20 Books Releasing This Year That Are About Women Who've Changed The World

• Autostraddle: 80 Queer and Feminist Books Coming Out Winter 2022

• Alma: 8 Jewish Books You Should Read This January

• Veranda magazine: The 22 Most-Anticipated Books of the New Year

• SheReads: Best Nonfiction Books and Memoirs Coming in 2022

• Refinery29 (UK): The Ultimate Gen Z Book Guide For Surviving 2022

• Financial Times: Best Books of Summer 2022

• Stylist (UK): 7 of the Best Nonfiction Health and Fitness Books for Women to Read

• Book Riot: 9 Books All Fitness Professionals Should Read

Interviews

• The Cut: Where Did Fitness Culture Come From?

• Shape: This Book Reveals Some Shocking Truths About the History of Fitness Culture

• The Zoe Report: The Evolution Of Fitness Culture

• The Forward: How Jewish Women Pioneered the Fitness Movement (for Better and Worse)

• SELF: The Relentless Reality of Anti-Fatness in Fitness

• The Slowdown: The Profundity of Superheroes, Comedy, and Jazzercise, According to Danielle Friedman

• Publishers Weekly: The Barre Truth: PW talks with Danielle Friedman

• Columbia Magazine: What’s So Feminist About Fitness?

Radio interviews

• WBUR (NPR): On Point

• WNYC (NPR): All of It with Alison Stewart

• KQED (NPR): Forum

• KERA (NPR): THINK with Krys Boyd

• WGBH (NPR): Under the Radar with Callie Crossley

• Texas Standard (NPR)

• KPCW-FM (NPR): The Mountain Life

• WRKF-FM (NPR): Talk Louisiana

• WOSU (NPR): All Sides with Ann Fisher

• WCBS-FM Author Talks

• WAMC-AM/FM’s The Roundtable

• KTRS-AM: Jennifer & Wendy Show

• SiriusXM Doctor Radio’s Sports Medicine Show

• BBC Radio 4

• BBC Radio London

Podcasts

• Forever35: Let Me Hear Your Body Talk With Danielle Friedman

• Slate’s The Waves: Can Women Exercise Without the Patriarchy Getting in Our Heads?

• Betches’ Diet Starts Tomorrow: Barre Class Started As A Sex Class (and Other Lessons in Women’s Fitness History)

• Betches’ Diet Starts Tomorrow: Consistency Doesn't Mean Doing The Same Workout Non-Stop FT. Danielle Friedman

• Well+Good Podcast: The History of Women’s Fitness

• Brain Candy

• Moms Don’t Have Time to Read Books with Zibby Owens

• The WANTCAST with Katie Horwitch

• Busy Body from Brooklyn Strength

• Smithsonian Radio’s Not Old — Better

• Another Mother Runner

• Standard Issue

• 100% Guilt-Free Self-Care

• Follow Friday

• Fitness Disrupted with Tom Holland

• Run, Selfie, Repeat

• Run to the Top

• HERstory on the Rocks

• Writing F(r)iction

TV

• TODAY Show All Day

• WGN Chicago Morning News

• WREG Memphis: Fitness History Reveals Exercise Was Considered ‘Taboo’ for Women

• Ireland AM Morning Show

INTERNATIONAL COVERAGE

• La Repubblica’s D Magazine (Italy)

• Sueddeutsche Zeitung (Germany)

• Dagens ETC (Sweden)

• Tages-Anzeiger (Switzerland)

• Independent (Ireland)

• Nine to Noon (Radio New Zealand)