Fitness trends come and go. But the simple weight is an anchor in the shifting tides of culture. As workout equipment has become canonized within the realm of home appliances, this heavy metal object aids in our dual — and sometimes conflicting — pursuit of athletics and aesthetics.In season 2 of the <a href="https://www.curbed.com/2021/10/nice-try-interior-podcast-avery-trufelman-latest-episode.html">Nice Try!</a> podcast, show host and former 99pi producer <a href="https://99percentinvisible.org/author/avery-trufelman/">Avery Trufelman</a> heads inside the home, interrogating how individuals channel utopian ambitions through the lifestyle technologies and home goods that determine the ways we clean, cook, exercise, and sleep in order to lead better lives. But the problems these objects are designed to solve, and the way they solve them, promote a distinctly American ideal that prioritizes personal betterment over improving society as a whole.

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466- The Weight

99% Invisible