Breaking Muscle Podcast: A Plague of Strength is the Best Type of Plague
Two podcasts in one day? Say it ain’t so! And yet it is- in a bizarre bit of synchonicity, both […]
Breakthrough Secrets Podcast: The History of Weight Lifting With Jamie Lewis
Over the last couple of months, I’ve filmed a 30 for 30 that will air next year on ESPN (in […]
The First Public Gyms in America Were a Lot Different Than Your Gym, but Still Shockingly Modern in Form and Intent
“Weight training is the child of gymnastics. We sometimes forget that before strongmen lifted weights, they went to the palestra […]
Quickie History: Friedrich Jahn, “der Turnvater,” Invents Modern Gymnastics (and Starts the Bodybuilding Movement) Because Fuck Napoleon, That’s Why
If you recall my series on the wild and weird phenomenon of Muscular Christianity, you will recall that the West […]
Fustigation Fury X Baddest Motherfuckers Ever: Colonel Thomas Hoyer Monstery, Part Three- If You Learn Nothing Else From This Series, Learn That Liberals Aren’t the Shit-Soft Cowards People Believe Them to Be
Forewarned is forearmed- if you’re a hard-line right-winger (and for whatever reason there seem to be quite a number of […]
Fustigation Fury X Baddest Motherfuckers Ever: Colonel Thomas Hoyer Monstery, Part Two- Fencing for Cardio, Boxing and Lifting for Strength and Power, and a Badass Moustache for Authority
In part one, we examined the first three-quarters of the life of a man who seems to be a Frankenstein’s […]