Not to mention fasting also on Ash Wednesday and Good Friday.....
Actually, fasting should be every Friday, plus throughout Lent, plus Ash Wednesday, Wednesdays and Saturdays of Advent, Vigils, etc. The Pope abrogated the requirements here under pain of sin. They didn't throw away the tradition of doing these things. That was left for the lazy laity to do to prove themselves unworthy of the name Catholic by rapidly discarding their identity and traditions.
The American Bishops have been urging fasting for every Friday since 1983 as a voluntary penitential measure.
Most people are minimalists though, and refuse to do anything not required by pain of damnation.
Also abstaining from meat on Ash Wednesday!