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!)
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!
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!
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!
In praise of 'slow lifting'
"This is what my belly looks like"; no more intensive skincare; RIP anorexic legend Louise Glück. This is Link Letter 105
Things that are not steroids: creatine
Hungry Hungry Hippo Crossfit workout; healthy living bloggers of 2010 vintage; centripetal force = ovaries stay IN. This is Link Letter 104!
German word for "muscle soreness": an interview with a stein-holding champ
Sophia Agostinelli shares her secrets for state victory; ignore blood-flow restriction; men grind through the catastrophic flooding of New York, among other signs of unwellness. This is Link Letter 103!
Processing "processed" foods
I was personally victimized by a Crossfit; Oprah on Ozempic; searching for America's chicken finger. This is Link Letter 102!
