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If you're listening to this show right now, you certainly understand the influence new products have on the ways we live. But the interesting thing is that over the course of history, and so many products- don't what get newly designed but get reason to us, Over and over again with different packaging versions of the same technologies to help us clean cook, exercise eyes and all promising more efficiency and more convenience attempt to turn our homes do private little utopias, or at least masterpieces of the podcast nice try from Europe. Magazines curved their first season was all about filled utopian experiments, but their second season may the term inward into the private haven of the american dream. By looking at all be appliances in it. Nice try also just happens to be hosted by ninety nine,

I superstar alumni every problem in its motives. They enable Avery traveled. So far, she's covered how the doorbell turned into the home security system have a vacuum: cleaner went from public utility, the first widely accepted household robot and other crackpot, an instant pot cleverly repackaged. Some of the oldest cooking technology is known to humanity, but the episode were sharing today is about a self improvement device that was not intended to make life easier. It was designed specifically to make life just a little bit harder and it hasn't changed very much since its invention. This is a story about lifting weights and how it became a central component to home fitness, all body ass, your tail

Can I just introduced to show goodwill is vague, replace from from New York magazines curbed in the media Pike S network. This is nice. Try a major human rights goblets God. I don't let the records show. I totally work out, I'm just usually on team cardio. So I had never swung kettlebells before and when I went to the house Natalia moment. Petra Zella historian of Physical fitness and a professor at the new school. She had more than enough waits for both of us to work out together. This is quite how's. This is thirty. Five thousand is fit professor patches Ella roundly kick my ass lifting, because this is just part of her home and her life. She has these weights and

them regularly work, equipment and accessories have become canonized into the realm of home appliances as well during the pandemic, with with with home Venice equipment. What people are willing to spend has only gotten higher and higher. I think that's in part, because we see relies exercise as illegitimate, expands and illegitimate pursuit and then just from the built environment of the harm or something desirable to show off. Through the past thirty or so years, homework out machines of all the problem, to move your limbs for you, the nordic track. The both lacks the Palatine, maybe the we fit, but what

Faster Petra Zella gave me to hold while we did squats thirty five pound iron. Kettle bell is about as low tech and simple as it gets. Fitness trends come and go, but the weight is an anchor in the shifting tides. There have been very few changes to its design. Russian farmers used kettlebells in the seventeen hundred. counterweights to measure out grain bar bells used have those giant globes on either side of them that circus, strong men used to lift and those were filled with sound iron shot to modify the weight, but once barbell became a rod with changeable, solid iron plates that was sort of that thirty five pounds of iron is thirty. Towns of iron. It's just that the culture around waits who lifts them and why has changed? If you look at like the larger history of fitness culture in America,

you have at some moments a kind of celebration of like Stren, then like muscle building in other moments, like real ambivalence and even discussed a bow and fear about what it means to lift ways. Professor Petronelle truly, not exaggerating about the discussed and the fear and the early part of the twentieth century. There were honest to God: health concerns around lifting waits. A widespread idea, promoted even by doctors, was that lifting waits would make you muscle bound, must about there being met being literally thought about bonded your muscles, like your brain, wouldn't work, you were trapped by your muscles and you couldn't touch your toes or touch your head. You'd be locked in a puppy. muscular cage of your own making, and so the people who did venture into the world of weightlifting were not to forthcoming about it very, unlike today,

owing to the gym being seen. Exercising is not something that that displays your virtue, weightlifting as a subculture was sweaty and dirty and entirely suspicious. It was sit on a form of body modification to coax your muscles to this dangerous, artificial edge with weights, and so it's easier, Billig ha ha old, timer people. Why were they so scared of weights women out of wits? I think some, the reason why is because I'm intimidated not that I think waits would make me like unable to touch my head. I'm just You know why would I want to get ripped, but in thinking about this eternal unchangeable, piece of equipment at the center

of so many changing attitudes and fads around personal fitness in Amerika. I came across a story of this one business man who is arguably sort of a product home. Fitness grew from the nineteenth thirties and his entire vision was to get everyone to lift waits. No matter Jen or age or race back when no one believed that it was healthy, and I don't say no, if I could say he succeeded or not, because it only fair recently that we are finally sort of living in the reality that the sky envisioned but didn't have two way long after his death, and only in this very roundabout way. Oh and his name is Bob Hoffman. Can you read it yet at one time I stood alone I was almost here I believe and we train for athletes. Now there are thousands of coaches who are teaching wait, training to their teams and hundreds

thousands of athletes improving their athletic ability. Three way, training Bob happen that quote from Bob Hoffman, is on a plaque at the entry of the weight lifting Hall of Fame in York, Pennsylvania, which is a lot of ways, a shrine to Bob Hoffman. That's bar! That's your bodily! Jan Dillinger was my guide. The Weightlifting Hall of Fame wear out front. There is a seven foot tall, bronze statue of Bob's gleaming, bald shitless super ripped inside the atrium there's another bust of Bob. His buff arms crossed Thirdly, over his chest and then right up there on the wall, there's a massive sepia photograph of Bob from the waste up in a fairly sure. Both I and shiny patterns, tuxedo nice decorated with military metals Dorothy, had a lot of metals just like war

metals around half way through this telecom. Ok he's had a big eagle. He sometimes were metals on his coat. He sought to look like a third world general. some of those were bought. Some somebody must have some of those he actually earned. A Bob Hoffman was actually a decorated world war, one hero, but he had a knack for, shall we say pumping up the truth about himself. In particular, he was very egos. Drink- and I would say more so than ninety percent of people when he saw and John Fair wrote the definitive biography of Bob Hoffman involved a lot of backtracking but Bob's

Harry Hardy Ego, turned out to be a useful tool for selling weightlifting to an incredulous american public in the nineteen thirties, because very few people believed in Barbados because again really there was this concerned that if you got two muscular you'd ruin your body and muscles would make athletes slow and inflexible. Football coaches were the worst. Oh, my gosh, yes I played tennis in college and the tennis coach Torres you I don't want you guys have retouching barbershops Bob Hoffman had always been a good athlete, here's a cure boxer and when he began working out with bar bells, his friends ridiculed him for seeking manufactured bumps.

But he discovered that the strengthen muscle gain from weightlifting made him better at sports. He realised from his personal experience that eight they help can grow big and strong. that in his canoeing days, but Bob Hoffman was Abe to a sand into so much more. Than another secret, Jim Rat, because Bob cofounded a business manufactured and sold burners and in Twenty two iron oil burners were a hot commodity, pig and on a good thing worldwide, there were no and Everybody else had call furnaces or Fireplaces York Burners based in York, Pennsylvania was doing pretty steady business, especially careening into the depression, and so Bob Hoffman was at liberty to hire anyone. He wanted to anyone to hire fellow weightless there's, not only because he knew that buff deeds are good on the factory floor, but he also wanted to create his own community to trade

together and to engage in some friendly lifting competition, and then Bob realised the process of iron casting that they used for oil. Burners could also make bar else like just to have them to use for themselves, for the training plays, manufacturing him there. In the middle of the Burma, COM, Rooney, began recruiting weightlifter for around the area to work in the oil burner company, which the original really original idea. He gay people, jobs and so Bob assembled a team of his employees, of all races of all backgrounds brought to York, pence Dania from all over the country to form the York oil Burner Athletic club, which are the very awkward name and things ratcheted up very quickly from their because in these small but passionate world of positive weightlifting win, a regional meet, could qualify you for the Olympics and soon members of the York

burner athletic club, we're taking off to compete in the Olympics and all other kinds of international lifting competitions, Bob's spit out twenty dollars to send a telegram data. reduce I basically in your face that was after in thirty eight world championship, as Bob saw it, his ragtag crew of guys, most of whom were blue collar and immigrants were sudden representing America? They were beating government sponsored teams from fascist and communist countries. And this nationalism angle became a really important dimension for Bob Hoffman. He was are fighting for America. He was fighting for our side and Bob came to believe that everyone should be super excited about what he is

I mean Bob was basically funding and creating the american lifting team himself out of his guys from the York COIL burner. Athletic club you're welcome America, and so, if Bob Hoffman was going to get the appreciation, he thought he deserved. He needed to get rid of the stigma around lifting waits, to get Americans to embrace the barbell and understand the beauty of lifting and not only for his employees, slash Olympic Champions, but so that every single American could be healthy and strong, and you know prepared just in case one of those nations with a state sponsored lifting came tried to invade us. Here is entire nations. He was working against and they were doing it for to a great extent. Yet he illogical purposes so yeah he was are up against a big stone wall.

and he couldn't get over himself back in nineteen thirty, two Bob had started a magazine out of the oil burner. Company called strength and health in editorials Bob warned that american life was too easy. The vast majority of the people are soft and that to avoid having our own country invaded, we must be strong them. He was packed with how twos and advice and inspirational cover photos of olympic Champions, many of whom just happened to be Bob's employees at York and in nineteen Thirty five, when Milo Barbell, America's biggest barbell company, went bankrupt, Bob bought it we're in the middle. The depression and bows by a mail order, Barville Business in the middle of a depression at Sylvia. Much of a cell, it Bob was, I believe,

in Thursday's. Bob Hoffman had ditched the oil burner business entirely and started manufacturing and selling bar bells full time. York oil burner had now become York, Barbell company, The leap when you think about how popular oil burners where and how suspicious admonish waits were so bad a lot a convincing too. your gave. A lot of exhibitions over the years, in the thirties, and they would go to carnivals and have shows Bob used he's olympic. teams last employees as models and spokesman to sell his wits and homework out courses. The York men and Bob huh Men travelled all over the country in a roadster with a barbell strapped to the front. They would lift the barbarians

That's their elbows to their toes to show have like simple they saw or- and this is key, the style of lift that the York men were demonstrating, the style that Bob most adored was limping lifting. Indeed, this is the sale of lifting that is in the impact. But, aside from that, it is a very specific style which put simply is this: it is lifting a barbel and raising it over one's head through a sequence of Korea. Graft moves like the snatch, clean and jerk

It's not just about lifting the most wait possible. It's about how you lift it. Olympic gripping takes little more snaps, be coordination and flexibility. Olympic litters were agile and, dare I say, graceful, they were the opposite of muscle bound, and so Bob really wanted everyone to be excited about his olympic lifting team and to be doing olympic lifting themselves. Everyone all ages, Europe, he tapped into the strengthened health culture again with Bob was very merchant for me, You found support and for teenage boy you saw some kid, your own age, gender and your actually grew up to work in the editorial arm of York in the nineteen seventies, but even before that strengthen health a column written for women by women called bar bells about how lifting can help you keep a trim. Physique reading strengthen health was a form of community outside the realm of mysterious scary gems,

Actually, Bob Hoffman thought that was a better way to work out. He wrote home training is the best way to produce the maximum in muscular strength and grove, and again this was a wild proposition. When you think about the reaction, Jan. from his dad when he asked for weight. So he could work out at home. My dad through a fit yes fit severe, not burners for you, so you can be like while Bob Hoffman was pretty preshent. That's amazing! How did he know that waits are good for you? The answer was he didn't he was kind of shooting from the hip. It was all sort of trial and error. I guess she would say, but it seemed we working and what's more, he was making a lot of money because at a certain point, Bob becomes like a much.

Gwen. If Paltrow, he starts cranking up books and more magazines for all kinds of advice that extend beyond weightlifting into General Wellness, and some of this advice is just like wait. What nobody's back in two thousand, but I mean I know jobs, conundrum Bobby conundrum in Bob's, nineteen, thirty, eight book how to be strong, happy and healthy on? Why page he's telling people to avoid eating white flour and refined sugar, which is like ok, while pretty on the nose there. But then you turn the page and he sang most headaches are caused by constipation and not to put condiments on your food and that masturbation concept, man, strength and the thing about Bob's rules that did have merit oftentimes. He thought they did not personally apply to him. He reeled imprint against carrying a curfew stuff, but he took note, is hidden

gives kind. Cathy freak really nodded his boys from drinking coffee. That's drinking coffee, theirs. yeah, no separation. There in one person's mind, don't ask me to explain it probably tell anymore. I should Bob advised a solid, eight hours of sleep but said that he personally didn't need it, because I sleep faster, most people. It would be hard for anyone to live entirely by the rules Bob Hoffman set, including Bob Hoffman, he loved hot dog, NI loved, ah handy. Ah, he indulged himself with unhealthy food t claim to be the healthiest man in the world, but he turned out to be or the unhealthy used men in the world. So Bob was a

total mixed bag with a lot of contradictory or unfounded or unsolvable advice, which makes it wild that he was one hundred percent correct about weightlifting. But then the hilarious part to me is that this somewhat broken clock ends up being right twice because Bob shot from the hip again with another fitness product and again he hits the target. If you wanna be strong and healthy, you need more approaching like is he the reason I can go, get protein buyers at the bodega. He definitely popular as the idea in nineteen fifty two Bob introduced a product he called high protein spelled with to ease. The recipe was essentially stolen from a one time business partner, and it was basically soybean powder that he mixed with chocolate from near by her she Pennsylvania and he personally mixed himself very on scientifically and a giant that, with a canoe paddle Bob was a nurse shorting away

Making high protein eventually got others to do the sweating why he was using the same mixture to sell his gain weight product as he was to sell his loose wake. Product? Oh my god. No, they were the exact same product exact same product. He insisted that these high protein products, were the reason that american weightlifter were so successful in the nineteen fifties. So, ultimately, Bob Hoffman had created this loop where he wanted to get Americans excited. His olympic team, by essentially relying on his olympic team, to sell his publications and protein products and waits, but as individuals and professional sports teams and trade, there's started buying and using York bar bells and high protein. It made lifting waits a means to an end and not an end in itself, because it turned out Bob's cousin.

We're not necessarily interested in learning the choreography and sport of olympic lifting for the great glory of America. They weren't even necessarily interested and lift, The train for other sports turned out a sizeable portion of Bob's customers, maybe more sizeable than Bob realised just wanted results. That's what young men one most of all, is to look. And to impress people- and it doesn't answer you it's good to have strength, but appearances, the main thing and the question became. What kind of appearance is the appearance to want? How do weights didn't? Do that? after the break. An ideological challenge to the York Empire pits the east coast against the West Coast, athletics, verses, aesthetics and ultimately gets us and work at you may be doing at home today, gazing were little peace of mind, can do for quality of life.

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and so the cruel irony is that the weightlifting guru who emerge to challenge the Reign of York Barbell could have easily been Bob Hartman's protege because, while Bob was building his empire in York, a kid named Joe Weeder was home in Montreal. Getting hooked on weightlifting an accord, agenda Ollinger Joe Weeder gobbled up everything Bob did. He was a devoted reader of strengthen health and a lifter of York bar bells. Ok, you're, southern people No well, when we started out late thirties, he was a York rap. He wrong! Europe, Europe, Barville Stuff- and if you your call John Fares description of Bob Hoffman, he was very egocentric and, I would say more so than ninety percent of people is the rest of the sentence, but he had his equal in this field of physical culture, Joe weeder was the same way. Jan Peter was still a teenager.

Began to build his weightlifting empire legend. Has it he pillaged old editions of strengthen health? the contact information about six hundred, canadian mussulman and mailed them, each a poster encouraging them to sign up for his publication, which turned out to be the extreme french Canadians sounding your physique. The first issue came out in nineteen forty, when Joe was only nineteen years old and eventually, when York stopped selling weights in Canada because of a terrifying he's Joe we're decided to fill the gap by manufacturing his own weights, and eventually he got into Protein to weeder saw that Bob was making a lot of money out of it, and so he stride main manufacturing his own protein and he called it. High protein spouted differ Lee Weeder spelled protein directly and then Weeder was making weed.

vitamin and mineral supplements. Weeder energy tablets, weeder reduced aid supplement weeder, wait gaining supplement, which was essentially selling supplements as a magical short cut. To help you gleaned the benefits of working out without breaking a sweat. And this is part of an important distinction between Joe Weeder and Bob Hoffman. Joe did not care about being able to Cute, a cleaning jerk like an olympic weightlifter dead, and neither his readers of your physique didn't want to read about peace nice alembic, choreography, we'll be fit out of some patriotic duty. They just want and muscles show where do you go? If you want to be famous and make a lot of money and wider really got it right here, the reason that it sin body willing. So that's what we'd or went one is big way. Ah, that's for big bulging muscles body

building is the idea that you can sculpt your deltoid and your try saps just so and make yourself into a statue of your own design. It was less about athletics and more about aesthetics that you're doing this. Not so much for your country, but you're doing this for yourself, I guess she would say self interest that You become a weeder man, the wheat or way, and the Hoffman way we're just fundamentally to different philosophies. Even if they were using the same waits at the York Barbell Club picnic in June of nineteen forty five York Pennsylvania was first dubbed muscle town USA, Bob's Americana, Norman Rockwell in MECCA for blue collar workers, living and grunting, together on and off the clock, all obediently living by Bob strict rules for health and well miss nor to bring glory back the United States. The discipline of olympic lifting

but the body building movement had been gathering steam. LOS angeles- and this is where we are- would eventually move and set up shop. Muscle beach had popped up in the nineteen thirty's as a spot for gymnast and acrobats to practice where brags, whatever your home and by the nineteen fifties, this slice of boardwalk attracted actors and exchange and stunt doubles and work out. Buffs men and some women who went to exercise in the sun tourists came to God, they're beautiful, perfectly suntan bodies as they smiled and performed flips and staff Human pyramids is a body conscious culture. I mean what are you doing gymnastics her hand One senior lifting rebuilding whatever you know if it was just like us Bohemia, atmosphere there in southern California to Bob Hoffman. This muscle, Beach

Just look like narcissistic cotton candy, repeatedly strengthen health, smeared booby builders, who wanted muscles for muscle, sick, soon, Bob COIN, the term sensible physical training to differentiate his athletic healthy work way from what he saw as Joe Weirs superficial way. He essentially drag Joey into an ongoing war between their publications individuals. But I ve interviewed sort of blame Bob for the food, because Bob is a front runner and he didn't like this competition from this of Start This Canadian and this foreigner, who was under communist influence or encouraging communist ideas, which is like law but the viewed between Bob and Joe eventually got truly, very ugly and petty, just like firing shots about each other's divorces and finances stuff that even make good article

I mean it is almost. Secondly, which is wild because body building an olympic lifting you, to have a lot of overlap. A lot of the Olympic lifted at York used to also call themselves body builders, but when this rift opened a number of York, men defected to become wider men, also, a lot of guys just left York because of low wages and poor management? After all? Why would you want to live under Bob's, impossible lifestyle rules and work for him in both the barbell business and on the olympic team in Central Pennsylvania, when you could work out in the sun on muscle beach and pose, and Mr Universe, competitions and the body building lifestyle was all the more alluring after Joe reader took a young Austrian their under his wing and in nineteen sixty eight aid, his way to the: U S large fortune, eight or was a reader product,

never change the whole game not just for lifted, but for the wider american public when they saw Arnold starring movies. I'm alive Marbella became accepted by virtually everyone but did not happen until widely until the Seventys and was probably weeder. They cashed in most and eventually displaced Hoffman, Bob Hoffman impact on the culture of weightlifting was and is huge. He converted alot of sports teams and members of the military to start using waits, but ultimately, Bob gave up on the olympic to him emotionally and financially oddly Hoffman term to funding softball teams softball things really weird and american lifting at the olympics- has actually never quite recovered pretty much ever since Bob stopped personally bankrolling it in the sixties. Last year have a big deal because a member of the woman's team, a silver metal but the last

I'm someone on the woman's team, one a gold medal was twenty years ago and on the men's team, it's been especially bleak. The men's team hasn't one single metal since ninety eighty four and I don't even know how bad Americans were at lifting because normally talks about it? Well, we don't have the size weightlifting, as sport arose, unlucky sport, other countries do this so yeah when lifting became culturally acceptable. It was for body building and the showing us of it rather than the sport and interestingly, Professor Petra Zella says that weightlifting set the stage for the next massive movement and american Fitness, which was cardio. So what happens when cardio becomes a big deal? Well, the enthusiasm has been percolate Thanks to these like strengthens the as yet now there's a form of exercise at the world is primed, for that is good for you. It does involve lifting having things does it

sending away for these iron heavy waves that you have to have in your house. It could be trotting around outside and in the street. You know in your jogging suit, in your like rubber sold shoes cardio, which started in the sixtys but really took off in the eightys, was like these sure fire not scary way to a lean life body, incomes, aerobics and swimming and acquire aerobics, and the thing is by the eighties. Waits had become culturally accepted enough to be included as part of cardio homework shouts. If you have several awaits, you may want to use the heavier one. For these first exercises

Shoulder shrugs then journey in this Jane Fonda work of video from eighties, where she's just using little metal dumb bells, you can hear the aesthetic influence of body building site, but you can also still here, the fear associated with getting too muscular, get her shoulders a great without giving it a hawk. The message had come through like lifting waits was good for you sure, but if you want to get swore, maybe she just use little ones. This is a version of that same old fear of muscle, Barrenness weightlifting had always had this baggage with it similarly for women that it's unhealthy, because it's heavy there's a lot of that same

kind of framing and marketing and reassurance about like too. We will make you then, or at least to make you bulky and that's literally the same thing that we ve been hearing since the nineteen fortys, and this is of course gendered, but I don't think it's entirely gendered. I think there are also a lot of class hang ups around what kind of bodies and intellectual in the knowledge economy should have what it means to be like in an leisurely muscles. Carry a lot of baggage, I've always been like really want to lift our baggage up, and it turns out Professor Petra Zella The same time as she was roundly kicking, my ass with her work out told me that she is to be just as hesitant as I was. I had tolerably well like muscle easily enough above you now, and so I dont want to walk up. So you got me right back. Basically in twenty eighteen, professor petrodollar one

the train for the New York Marathon and a coach suggested that part of her training should be weightlifting, that it will make her faster and healthier and fitter that cardio and real full weight training can go together cohesively, and this has been a fundamental tenant of a relatively recent move. and fitness one that I actually did not realize was actively under way. All around me, Argyle cross bit gems are often in garages or designed to look like greedy garages, because that's where the movement again. It was invented for anyone to do in their home because you're not working out with abstract work out machines or trying to target specific body parts you're working with different weights and

Open and things that my replicate real world situations. If you had to quickly run some. Where or lift something costly, polarizing programme, but is no question that after crossfire came out in two thousand one it spawned all of these different kinds of programmes that put we training at the Centre of Fitness Cross. It was the birth of the functional fitness movement, the idea of the functional fitness is that you only need one marble and a few weights, and you can do all these different kinds of things. Katy rose hit. Is a professor of culture? an anthropology at Brooklyn College- and I am an olympic weightlifter. Indeed, these style of lifting that Bob Hoffman loved Olympic Weightlifting in the United States has boomed. Since the advent of cross fit because cry check, brought brought the weightlifting equipment and style and moves into an everyday class for like general populations and the person responsible for cross fit is in some ways a very Bob Hoffman, like figure who is proposing

lifting work out for the masses. A rogue personal trainer named Gregg Classmen get kind of kicked out of his his mainstream, Jan because he was doing all kinds of stuff differently ass man would do ridiculous numbers of repetitions in a short time and then run around the block, and then maybe do some domestics moves maybe swing some kettlebells, maybe do some alembic lifts each totally scattered work out with super quick super high octane and glass men started to post his very intense work out on the internet for any one to follow. So this was like early on doesn't wine, so this was done mostly by rogue individuals in their garages until after September eleventh. It is not coincidental that the crossfire, the war on terror. The? U S military and the barbell sort of came up together after nine all the elements that have been weird alienating about cross, fit the accessibility intensity of it. Suddenly, this is really appealing

civilian population who just bought gas masks and go bags because they wanted to be prepared for everything, and this was also appealing to a military gearing up to recruit for a new war. Para militarism was built into the very culture of cross, fit Cross but even started a line of work out named after soldiers who died in the war on terror. You can go to the website and you can find an image of this of the man who died and work out named after him and their call hero, work out, Euro and tribute work out now also include cops who died in the line of duty, but ultimately this is the culture that really mean weightlifting mainstream in America, more so than Bob men or Joe Weeder ever could even though prospect was actively developed to be rogue and fringy cross. What was built in opposition to a mainstream Jim. Now you can go into any more.

stream Jim and find functional fitness spaces and gems throughout the country have like revamped and region there there spaces to accommodate that cause. It's been so popular think about the equipment that sold out in the pandemic Dislike kettlebells embargoes stuff that was all revived by cross Fit, but rather functional fitness can't use crossing is branded also allowed people dont want to use the name cross Fit because

of its long history of being libertarian and white and militaristic and male, especially after the murder of George Floyd, when Gregg Classmen tweeted racist things and was ousted from prospect, corporate a lot of people will not continue with cross because of the under current. Ah, you know white supremacist imperialism, massage any that's inherent to the practice. It would be disingenuous and it would be maybe even borderline dishonest if I didn't give credit to cross with despite the shitty pot, mailer howl is one of the founders of Dean Cross, Fit in Brooklyn. It's one of only a few black prospect, gems in New York City and a lot of cross with gems have changed. Their names are dissociated from Brown, but Dean Cross. If it was not one of those gems, we tried to be an example of what it should be or it could be mail. I started lifting through body bill

and he was young. He wanted to look like Arnold Schwarzenegger. That's how I started. I chased warnings that look like those guys in the Maghreb Flex Magazine ass. I started to push up some months garage, but when mail I was compelled to try a prospect class. He realized his muscles can actually help him now ass. I won't that should kick my ass and is too reactions. Either that she, my ass, I don't ever want to do that again or ever feel like that. Again too, Kick my ass! I gotta do better. I could do. I think I could do better

I may be an anomaly and what it has in a way I dont think crossword or the functional fitness space would be words that right now, without that roar, it appealed to number it's. A large percentage of fitness goes for male I'd. Functional fitness is about what you're by can achieve not what it looks like just right out of the Bob Hoffman can so much like you took the words right out of Bob's mouth when he said everyone should be lifting wits ever every one more thing you should be lifting waits to live like honest, or should they go or no, you should be lifting wasted, improving quality of life. We lifting waits too to be a stronger human to be a healthier human to be too soon to build. Do data days stuff with

minimal risk and increasing longevity assuage me lifting waits period in a functional fitness class he might encounter kettlebells and am belts are barbados, but in the class I just so happened to go to we were given Barbados and we're instructed her to clean and jerk with coordination, inflexibility, alembic style, Yorkshire, others, westerner, fires, action, Russia, shoulders. Are you always consciously like considering the choreography or at some point? Does it become second nature Greenpoint athletics, formerly known as prospect. Green point is greedy and raw feeling out. I've been way to injure me to go by myself, but my an Tory and her wife, Chris have been going a lot lately and they have computer centric brain in a jar jobs. Like me, Chris, is a lot

faster and tories. Writer interpreters, author. Sufficient, not as a lake three months ago, how, after a lot of instruction, for how to execute and olympic lifting that throwing back. I spent twenty minutes trying to sink my breath with my movements to hoist my barbell over my head and it required a lot, So my whole body and mind was inducing this very translate lake state and I didn't feel compelled or, like anyone else, is looking at me. It was just me and this weight and some really love music, get to feel good about my body here, not because it's necessarily the way it look but like, instead of being like. I like, I want my monetary ornamental. I start aspiring for my body to be able to do she's

there do you know this movement has polyps while ladder right on cue, the teacher for top class Kiley started doing is ridiculously intimidating, pull up like I'm just as some sort of cool down. I think when I, when I see people, do these events, I don't look at them. I can imagine what it would like to do that, and instead of even a second aspirational attainment aspiring to be in my body as its first two aspiring to have somebody like gaze on my body, is a really big difference, and so, like the olympic lifting class, made my whole body ache and satisfying way that felt pulsating. That was like ya, think I could see myself getting into this. but it wasn't survives considering it for weeder reasons or Hoffman reasons you know like did. I actually want to be strong. I just want to look like I was strong. Arguably functional fan is gonna blow that line

body. Buildings was a mental, I mean crossword is like oh, it's applicable, but there's They ornamental and having a body that so easily applicable to work any work that you'll never They do- and it's you I said in my case you're all day, but I cried. I do now like chop down a tree, and so there is a kind of like it's a guy. Hidden, when of the body. It's a set of considerations and circumstances that seem so far removed from muscle town, USA and from the Olympics and from fears of muscle, boundless the mouth rose, cemetery in York, Pennsylvania or Bob Hoffman grave was designed to look like Elvis Presley is but engraved with a long glowing list of his many. Bush. At one time I stood alone. I was the only believer in weight training, for I thought it now. There are millions

The bobbin need a library in the fake metals. His legacy speaks for itself, albeit more quietly and suddenly than Bob would have liked it to, because when I took that class at Green at Greenpoint Athletics, the two point: five pound plates, I kept adding to my barbell each time I lifted it high above my head were emblazoned in iron with the name York Nice, try is a product of curbed and the vocs me upon network you can find more episodes where every listen this week, Avery will be talking about the origin of the western bathroom and culture

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