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Sweat

By Bill Hayes

A History of Exercise. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2022.

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Sweat

A brief summary of Sweat

A dynamic text about the power of movement to change cultures as well as bodies, driven by Bill Hayes’s search for the forgotten origin and evolution of exercise.

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Who should read Sweat

Professional and amateur athletes • fitness instructors • athletic coaches • historians • gym members • anyone interested in the details about multiple forms of exercise

About the author of Sweat

Bill Hayes is an American photographer, journalist, and author with a passion for fitness. He is the 2013 recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship and his 2022 text, Sweat, was named Esquire’s best nonfiction book of the year. Hayes’s photographs have appeared in the New York Times, Vanity Fair, and The New Yorker.

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