Big butts are a mark of effort and they’re like art, each different and perfect in their own way. We should appreciate and celebrate art.
Nothing Wrong With a Shoebox
“I heard that place is a shoebox.” A friend said this to me recently in reference to a new affiliate I was planning to visit. She meant no harm or …
Notes to Myself: 1
You only have so many days. So many hours so many minutes so many moments. All of us, even those who are in fabulous shape and will live to be …
Seeing the Magic
The romance of what we do is often lost on non-believers. We try to explain it, but we fail — time and again. The weights, the sprints, the times, the …
Waiting to Complain
Scene: A couch in a living room. Lenny sits in the dark, a laptop screen glowing in front of him. His fingers are poised to type. He waits. And waits. …
Summoning Thunder
I love the bar. Love the cold steel, the heft, and the faded patina on a barbell that’s been used a lot. I love how diamond knurling refuses to slide …
10 Things To Do When You’re Lonely
10. Prowler Races. Because puking your guts out will give you an entirely new reason to feel sorry for yourself. 9. Press. Brute strength is hot. And nobody ever said, “Oh, my …
What’s Your Ball and Chain?
You choose your ball and chain. Really, you do. Something happens, and you choose to continue to be bothered by it. You choose to have something continue to affect you …
Come What Come May
She always urged me to write more about myself. To use “I” instead of “you”, to say more clearly how things really affected me, to let the reader deeper into …