Soccer is up 11 percent to 17.7 million. Besides competition from extreme sports, Lauer noted that today s children participated in sports that weren t as available when we were kids, such as soccer and gymnastics, and have non-sports options such as Nintendo and the Internet. Society s changing view of beauty has also shaped exercising. Women have really fueled weight training, Lauer said. The idea of women growing muscles is no longer repulsive.
Muscles are sexually attractive and utterly acceptable.
It depends on how you lift and how you play. Twenty minutes on a treadmill, says Russell, is light years ahead of doing nothing at all.