Introduction: What Is the Fit Nation? Part One: When Sweating Was Strange --
1. Performing Civilization --
2. No More Fat Cats or Ladies of Leisure --
3. Sanitizing--and Selling--Fitness --
4. The California Beach Body Is Born --
Part Two: Slimming the Soft American --
5. White Plains, the White House, and the Paradox of Prosperity --
6. Fitness Makes Us Strong, Not Soft --
Part Three: From Margins to Mainstream --
7. The Future Belongs to the Fit --
8. Training for Life, Body, and Mind --
9. The "Tanny Touch";10. Slimming on the Small Screen --
Part Four: Movement Culture, Redefined --
11. Yoga and the Counterculture --
12. Kenneth Cooper and Aerobics Universalism --
13. Run for Your Lives!;14. Title IX and Its Limits --
15. Swap the Fat for Your True Self --
Part Five: Feel the Burn --
17. The New Gospel of Fitness --
18. Turning Up the Intensity --
Part Six: Hard Bodies and Soulful Selves --
20. Beyond Aerobics with Chanting --
21. Strong Is the New Skinny?;22. It's Not Fitness, It's Life --
Part Seven: It's Not Working Out --
23. Exercising in an Age of Uncertainty --
25. The Limits of "Let's Move --
26. The Pandemic and the Peloton --
