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Taming the fickle beast of the push-up

Push-ups are too hard and no one does them right. There; I said it. Plus: Go have a wandering day; hiking with the Lorax of Shawnee Forest; how bodybuilding, terrorism, and imperialism infiltrated fantasy. This is Link Letter 167!
Taming the fickle beast of the push-up
The year is 2020; no one was allowed to do anything indoors, especially not work out. We find our author a woman not entirely herself, doing 5 minutes of AMRAP push-ups on the city sidewalk under a subway bridge, while a passerby calls out to the class from the other side of the street, shouting words of encouragement. They are strange times indeed

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