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Link Letters

Free Friday newsletters with essays, links, analysis, commentary, and god-tier social media posts.
Mar
17
['Can't Hardly Wait' voice] Totally Gwyneth

['Can't Hardly Wait' voice] Totally Gwyneth

Lifting more than Arnold; throwing a garbage bin; a gym for your feelings? This is Link Letter 77.
4 min read
Mar
10
The hidden problem of muscle loss x weight-loss drugs

The hidden problem of muscle loss x weight-loss drugs

A beautiful gym; telehealth ketamine; body by pancake. This is Link Letter 76!
4 min read
Mar
03
The good powder (snow) the bad powder (erythritol) and the ugly powder (kratom)

The good powder (snow) the bad powder (erythritol) and the ugly powder (kratom)

What happens when you lose ten pounds in a week; ultra-processed foods exposed; do not work out on kratom. This is Link Letter 75!
4 min read
Feb
24
Videos of yourself contain a different truth

Videos of yourself contain a different truth

Shy-girl workouts; an enigmatic cliff-diver; love song of a disembodied head in a jar. This is Link Letter 74!
5 min read
Feb
17
When there were three members of Destiny's Child in the Survivor music video.

What is it about sets of three?

Except when you have to do five. Plus: the swole women of Sparta; Tracy Anderson's "cutthroat empire"; skip the long run. This is Link Letter 73!
5 min read
Feb
10
enhancement of a demo gif of a fitness model performing a deadbug where her lower back lifts off the ground

Fact-checking the New York Times’s core workout

Plus: The hour 'twixt "babe" and "hag"; I for one welcome our now new protein franken-animal overlords; the teens are drinking "borg." This is Link Letter 72!
4 min read
Feb
03
The "Run Fast/Squat Heavy" diaries

The "Run Fast/Squat Heavy" diaries

Plus: haunches, "almond moms," an extremely through benching guide, and Mounjaro. This is Link Letter 71!
7 min read
Jan
27
Sports vs. Predators

Sports vs. Predators

The problem with rooting around for "damage" in strength athletes. Plus: toxic cycling communities, "age reversal," TikTok is fake. This is Link Letter 70!
6 min read
Jan
20
A brush with the hustle grindset

A brush with the hustle grindset

Plus: Do "greens" powders work, wearing helmets, art tours, focusing like it's 1990. This is Link Letter [cough] 69!
7 min read
Jan
13
What’s so bad about HIIT? (Kayla Itsines version)

What’s so bad about HIIT? (Kayla Itsines version)

Plus: Zadie Smith is Noticing women's biceps, Remi Bader tried semaglutide, and broccoli pesto pasta. This is Link Letter 68!
8 min read