Talk story about watching a bodybuilding contest and, on another day, visiting a new kind of exercise salon where muscles are built not by exercise but by sending an electric current to various muscle groups and causing them to contract.
At the urging of a daughter who divides her time between Minnesota and Texas and works in an exercise salon for women in each of those places, Mrs. Smith joined a women-only gym in Bedford Hills.
The Hôtel Bristol, 10 rue du Mont-Blanc, 41-222) 716-5700, fax 41-222) 738-9039, www.bristol.ch, has one of the fanciest fitness centers in town: steam bath, sauna, whirlpool baths, and a spacious exercise salon with stylish frescoes.
At the exercise salon, called Futureshape, the writer allowed himself to be hooked up to the "P-8 Professional Passive Muscle Exerciser" which passes an electric current through different muscles and causes them to contract between 30 and 40 times a minute.
The New Yorker, November 22 , 1982P. 38 Talk story about watching a bodybuilding contest and, on another day, visiting a new kind of exercise salon where muscles are built not by exercise but by sending an electric current to various muscle groups and causing them to contract.
By William McKibben The New Yorker, November 22 , 1982P. 38 Talk story about watching a bodybuilding contest and, on another day, visiting a new kind of exercise salon where muscles are built not by exercise but by sending an electric current to various muscle groups and causing them to contract.
