I can't remember what came first: my personal or professional interest in exercise. The truth is, I began working out right around the same time I began writing about it a full 15 years ago. As a result, I've always been sympathetic to the fitness beginner, even after I stopped considering myself one.
In the early 2010s, diet culture was alive, well, and largely unexamined. In women's media especially, exercising was overwhelmingly talked about as a way to lose weight, under dozens of euphemisms (slim down, tone up, uncover your bikini body). As someone who exercised, I knew that people worked out for many reasons: to manage chronic illness, for general mental or physical well-being, to challenge themselves, for the simple thrill of an endorphin rush.
I became intimately familiar with how boring, alienating, and harmful it could be to read about a version of fitness that left me out. That's why I'm excited to say that no matter where you are on your fitness journey, you're welcome at PS Fitness. We are committed to making fitness inclusive and equitable, acknowledging the very real barriers that impact people's health and fitness, from fatphobia to ableism to racism to financial hardship.
Free workouts and information are the foundation of everything we do. PS ( ) has long dominated the fitness space as the No. 1 source for free , and that's not changing.
We will continue to , including no-equipment exercises, HIIT workouts, yoga flows, photo how-tos, and video tutorials. How.
