Have You Found Your Favorite Fitness App?

Six years ago, I stumbled upon the first exercise app that I was ever truly loyal to. I used this “7-minute workout” app, generously made by the New York Times, almost every day for a year when I was biking all the time and doing little else. This app gave me my arm strength. It was super-simple, basically a timer with a cartoon of someone doing a triceps chair lift and then a cartoon of someone doing a push-up. But its simplicity demystified the entire concept of strength training for me. Its very existence reminded me daily not to be a human centaur and actually build some muscles outside of my legs. It was both low-fi and glitchy, but, crucially, it was also free. And then one day it was gone, disappeared from my phone and out of my life.

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