So, check this out: There’s a bit of secret knowledge out there, right, that if you know about it, you can magically shave down your…
Nobody is more pleased than me that over the last couple of years, body image activists and other generally compassionate folk have done good work…
You’re totally convinced that you need to do X. You want X. You’re committed to X completely. Then why, when faced with the possibility of…
There’s a fairytale in the American psyche, and its name is Before and After. Here’s how it goes: one day a person is fat and…
It’s a sort of compliment for serious athletes and beginners alike: You’re a natural athlete. The implication is that while some tasks may be hard…
One of the best things about parenting is that literally everything that happens in your kids’ lives can be a “teaching moment.” They flunk a…
It’s not fair that those who lift weights are often seen as “jocks”, but there is something to the idea that having the physical skill…
Let me tell you a story about squats. When I started weight training in middle school, I was mortally afraid of doing squats. It looked hard,…
While celebrating the new year a few years ago in Bangalore, India, hundreds of women were groped in the streets in an incident which is…
You’re hanging out with your gym buddies at a cafe when you order a pastrami sandwich and get a death stare: “There’s like, 40 grams…