Boutique Fitness Craze (Tom Ashbrook, On Point)

Once, working out meant sweatpants and jumping jacks. Or running shorts and the open road. Then came Jazzercise, Zumba, hot yoga, Pilates. Today, for a growing number of Americans, fitness has gone more grueling and more glam at the same time. Boutique fitness. High-priced. Intense. Quasi-spiritual. With followers who are almost religious in the fervor. SoulCycle. Core Power. Flywheel. Barre. This hour On Point, the boutique fitness craze, and what drives it. — Tom Ashbrook
Interview:
https://onpoint.wbur.org/2016/01/07/soul-cycle-crossfit-boutique-fitness