Fitness and movement, once our own, are being sold back to us.

Illustration by Noah Hickey/The Dispatch (Photos via Unsplash).

Female bodies lie on their backs atop a row of what look like operating tables, their limbs strapped into contraptions of pulleys and loaded springs. “Exhale and press out,” commands the sergeant at the front of the room—a woman no older than 30, sporting a blowout and an Alo set. 

The row of bent knees straightens, then rises again toward the ceiling.