Fitness instructor Denise Austin still loves her old friend Richard Simmons. The 65-year-old fitness guru spoke about her friendship with the 74-year-old personality, who apparently disappeared in 2014. Simmons became reclusive and suddenly stopped teaching at his gym nearly a decade ago. The fellow fitness gurus have been friends since they began their exercise careers … Read more
For more than three decades, it seemed you couldn’t go anywhere in America without seeing Richard Simmons. The flamboyant fitness guru was a ubiquitous force, fronting informercials, publishing cookbooks and selling tens of millions of workout videos that revolutionized the exercise industry forever. From 1980 onward, the frizzy-haired, gleefully eccentric entertainer was also a fixture … Read more
Photo: YAKOBCHUK VYACHESLAV (Shutterstock) Fitness is one of those areas where you can literally spend as much money as you have. There are gyms that cost $10 a month and there are gyms, sorry, boutique fitness studios—that will run you $50 or more per workout. There is a similar wide open price range for clothing, … Read more