Playbill

May, 1988

Welcome to the May Playboy. It's fair weather and we're greased and ready. But not because we've been following Jane "work that butt!" Fonda or Arnold "pump up the volume" Schwarzenegger. Nope, this month, we have a new workout guru--William Barry Furlong, whose article The Fitness Myth warns against mindless exercise and tabulates its dire physical costs. After examining the inglorious fates of a few famous athletes, including the celebrated marathoner Jim Fixx, Furlong says...