EditorialA man lifts weights at an outdoor gym along the flooded banks of the Dnipro River in Kyiv, Ukraine, April 18, 2023. (Brendan Hoffman/The New York Times)
EditorialA man lifts weights at an outdoor gym along the flooded banks of the Dnipro River in Kyiv, Ukraine, April 18, 2023. (Brendan Hoffman/The New York Times)
EditorialMen lift weights at Kachalka, a famous outdoor gym on an island in the Dnieper River, in central Kyiv, Ukraine on Saturday, Jan. 28, 2023. (Brendan Hoffman/The New York Times)
EditorialMuscle-building exercises that rely on your body weight, think push-ups, planks and sit-to-stands, can be as effective as weights, in Uniondale, N.Y., Sept. 30, 2022. (Ryan Frigillana/The New York Times)
EditorialTyrese Proctor trains with weights at the NBA Global Academy in Canberra, Australia, on Monday, March 28, 2022. (David Maurice Smith/The New York Times)
EditorialA Ukrainian Marine from the 503rd Marine Battalion lifts weights, at a front-line position on Monday, Feb. 7, 2022, in Verkhnotoretske, Ukraine. (Brendan Hoffman/The New York Times)
EditorialC.J. Cummings, a Team USA weightlifter, adjusts weights between lifts during a training session in Honolulu, July 15, 2021. (Michelle Mishina Kunz/The New York Times)
EditorialEzekial Moreno lifts weights at Everybody Gym in their open-air patio gym in Los Angeles on Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2021. (Kendrick Brinson/The New York Times)
EditorialPeople wearing face masks lift weights at a gym in Indianapolis on Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021, amid the coronavirus pandemic. (Stephen Speranza/The New York Times)
EditorialBlake Gray lifts weights at a rental house provided to TikTokers by the video app Triller, in Los Angeles, Oct. 6, 2020. (Jake Michaels/The New York Times)
EditorialIn a photo from the National Institute of Standards and Technology, Edward U. Condon, then director of the National Bureau of Standards, in the bureau’s vault of weights and measures in 1947 (National Institute of Standards and Technology via The New York Times)
EditorialJTW Fit clients in New York, May 29, 2020, were struggling to find weights, so the gym began renting them out. (Brittainy Newman/The New York Times)