When Nintendo introduced the Wii Fit, most of its media coverage could be reduced to a loud, desperate cry for help: “Is this how we’ll finally stop being so fat all the time?” When Ellen DeGeneres ...

Other workout routines—Pilates, step aerobics, Spinning—would lure members to ever-multiplying health clubs. Charles Atlas Ltd., meanwhile, was selling the same mail-order course, but without Atlas as ...

One thing I definitely hadn't counted on was Lesson 2: Nutrition. Here, Atlas outlines his mandatory dietary and lifestyle restrictions -- no caffeine; no refined sugar; no bleached flour; no white ...

“You only have one body. You can’t go to the store and get another one. ACCORDING TO the legend, it really did happen pretty much exactly like this, at Coney Island, circa 1908: Here’s the 97-pound ...