"More men are starting to participate in group workouts, and men are buying fitness DVDs," says Chris Freytag, P.T., a senior consultant with the American Council on Exercise. This is partly because people started wanting to combine strength with cardio in the same workout, "Everything used to be very, very choreographed, very routine-oriented," explains Freytag. "Now in group fitness it's very boot-campish. It's more circuits, more intervals. It's athletic driven, movement driven."



Fair enough. But let's be honest: Even without the unitard, video workouts still don't come easy to most guys. After all, we don't want to be just anyone's puppet, twitching our limbs to their tune.



If you want to lead us, you need to prove that you are worthy. Is Shaun T worthy? His many, many fans would say so, as would the thousands of guys he's helped transform over the years. Hell, we deemed him worthy of our February 2015 cover—the 300-worthy abs certainly didn't hurt his cause.

