Tag: aging

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Non-Fiction Self-Help

Pumping Iron Under Protest

I have long contended that only men in prison enjoy lifting weights. That’s because their lives are so boring! And for self-protection, of course. Still, why would the rest of us who have other options – like getting a root canal or reading War and Peace or just aerating the lawn – want to lift weights?  I […]

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Essays Memoir

The Body Geologic – Metamorphosis

Muscle weighs more than fat. That is indisputable. What’s weird is that the muscle in my thighs morphed into fat and then, like grains of windblown sand, migrated upward and deposited themselves as dunes on my torso.  I did not suspect this shift in body shape because my weight didn’t change. My exercise routine hadn’t […]