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Times Touts "Caveman" Fitness Trend as Lifestyle
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Sabrina Jaszi
Published Jan 10, 2010
Modified Jan 14, 2010
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Taking a tour of the Natural History Museum it's hard not to notice that cavemen were just so slim and fit. This seems to be the inspiration for a group of "cavemen" New Yorkers, profiled in the Times Style section today. One of these cavemen lives in an Upper East Side apartment where he stores organs and deer bits in a giant refrigerator in his living room. He and his friends eat copious amounts of fresh-killed meat, then fast between meals, approximating the early man's diet. Exercise routines can include "scooting around the underbrush on all fours, leaping between boulders, playing catch with stones, and other activities at which [the] early man excelled." You know, they're the guys running barefoot and bare-chested in Central Park.
The Times says the Caveman craze is a "lifestyle" and a "subculture," but let's call it what it really is—a men's fitness trend. For years women have flocked to hot yoga, spinning and Zumba hoping to sweat, pump and dance themsleves into cavewomen. Now, finally, there is a fad manly enough for the less fair sex to get behind—one that includes the appropriate ratio of chest thumping and jerky-eating. But watch out cavemen, those jutting ribs and sinewy thighs may be going the way of the dinosaurs. According to another Times Style piece, fat is back.
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