This is not news to me, of course, thanks to the Damn right I am a Guardians fan now and forever shirt and I will buy this relentless #fitspo that has flooded my Instagram Explore page as I’ve refreshed the app again (and again) in the New Year. I try not to dwell on this kind of content, finding some measure of relief in the idea that as long as “normal life” has all but ceased to exist, at least I can let myself go. Not completely: I still do Yoga with Adriene on YouTube every once in a while, and I’ve been surprising myself by jumping on a livestream of Taryn Toomey’s cultish The Class—a fairly intense hour-long combination of cardio, strength training, and breath work—a few times a month. But I’m a writer, not an influencer/model/entrepreneur: Who even cares about my abs? Still. Even I am not immune to the appeal of something like Emsculpt, especially as we try to erase the physical signs of the sad, anxious, dumpy year we just endured, a kind of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless…body. It’s completely understandable that we’re not at our regular fitness levels,” Anne Chapas, M.D., assures me. “It’s been an incredibly stressful time for all of us.” A Manhattan dermatologist and the founder and medical director of Union Derm, Chapas relays that she and her colleagues have seen a rise in the number of patients seeking quick, noninvasive, no-downtime fixes. “I had a patient who joked to me the other day, ‘You know why they call it COVID-19?’ Because of the 19 pounds we’ve all gained.” Similar memes and tweets have been met with a backlash from the body-positivity community: Why are we worrying about a few extra pounds when so many of us have been sequestered at home, awash in worry, trying to keep ourselves and the people around us healthy and solvent? But the numbers don’t lie. “The uptick in the desire for body contouring has increased in my office by almost 400 percent,” confirms Harold Lancer, M.D., a cosmetic dermatologist based in Beverly Hills. Traditionally, these treatments have been focused on fat reduction through devices like CoolSculpting, which freezes fat cells to break them down, or truSculpt iD, which employs heat to the same end, explains Lancer. But newer devices—such as Emsculpt’s Neo, Cutera’s rebooted suite of truSculpt machines, and InMode’s new Evolve—add electrical-stimulation technology or high-intensity electromagnetic technology to tighten and tone muscles as well. Delivered through applicators attached to targeted areas, most commonly the abs, the flanks (a.k.a. the “love handles”), and the arms, these contractions work the muscles to provide definition.
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