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Article: Pressures keep some black women from working out.
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- St. Louis Post-Dispatch (St. Louis, MO)
- Article date:
- March 2, 2007
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Byline: Harry Jackson Jr.
ST. LOUIS _ Andrea Riggs was ready to take on the competition when she opened her personal training studio in Black Jack, Mo.
The niche for Body Beautiful was to help black women get into shape, be healthy and look good.
The competition she ran into, however, wasn't Bally or Gold's or 24 Hour Fitness. Instead, her greatest competition came from attitudes about exercise and diet from the people she wanted for her clients: black women.
"They told me they didn't want to lose weight," Riggs said, recalling her efforts to recruit clients. "It's cultural expectations and pressures. African-American women seem to ...