Strong is the new skinny

Maria Simulescu

Four decades after the iconic Jane Fonda exercise videos sparked a fitness craze, we’ve fielded a series of flip-flopping messages about the value of strength training for women. Although Fonda told women it was okay to have muscles, her videos — rife with svelte figures in bodysuits — didn’t contain much strength training, “especially for women in their 40s through 60s,” says Dr. Elizabeth Matzkin, chief of Women’s Sports Medicine at Harvard-affiliated Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Now, women

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Strong is the new skinny https://www.health.harvard.edu - 22.01.2026 10:17