The strength of Taylor Swift
A critical analysis/close read of Taylor's relationship with eating and working out. Plus: It's never too late to build muscle; a Murphy-bed-style gym; an online-clothing-scammers explainer. This is Link Letter 112!
How to successfully navigate our yearly workout flop era
A spectrum of lesser workouts, plus: Big Egg caught with price-fixing egg on its face; strength training is about failure; Paul Rudd's Antman diet was 'horrible.' This is Link Letter 111! (Make a wish!)
Do my workouts have to be 'hardcore'?
Why exercising isn't a waste of time if you're not always going hard.
'Does nothing taste as good as skinny feels?'
'My friend keeps saying this and it hurts my feelings; what do I do?'
A guide to freely interpreting "PRs": Announcing PLATESLAM 2023
Our national lifting holiday approaches. Plus: our last remaining mentally hinged member of society; becoming an outdoorswoman; meditation startups. This is Link Letter 109!
Everything I bought for my home gym (both times)
How I arrived at a good set of home gym stuff that even lives outdoors.
The math of meat
A guide to measuring protein, plus: rebranding "off season" for runners, gyms banning filming, the best breakfast cereals. This is Link Letter 108!
Friendship ended with protein shaker, friendship begun with milk foamer
A new Swole Woman shirt!; movements you'd like to to be able to keep doing forever; learning to love the creepy crawlies. This is Link Letter 107!
Tools and practices for writing a book these days
A bunch of stuff that helped me do a big project with no natural ability to focus or achieve on a consistent basis, while beset on all side by attention thieves.
Get a grip: a guide to grabbing, the good way
Grip strength involves a little thing I like to call strategy. Plus: a PT video for pushup/plank wrist pain; rucking; please watch Class of '07. This is Link Letter 106!