The two things everyone gets wrong when they start to lift
It's not the cold plunge. Plus: Savoring food, millennial motherhood, and PLATESLAM STARTS TOMORROW ! This is Link Letter 113!
If I'm dieting for my health (I think?) should I give it up for strength training?
Time for a Tombstone of science journalism on the random little diet rules we follow "for our health."
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!
