It’s now hot to trot.
A rising fitness trend has fans channeling their inner animal by walking, running and even jumping on all fours, a form of movement known as “quadrobics.”
The unconventional style of exercise is gaining traction on social media, where devotees are showing off their bear crawls and cat leaps — often while wearing furry masks and tails.
TikToker Soleil ( @wild.soleil ), who asked to remain anonymous, started doing quadrobics last year after learning about therians , a group of people who identify as nonhuman animals — not to be confused with furries, who both engage with and dress up as anthropomorphic animals. 13
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It’s a popular activity within the subculture, for obvious reasons, but the practice is not exclusive to therians — nor is it something eve