If cigarettes have to display health warnings, car commercials could, at a minimum, show people driving through congestion and/or making it impossible for kids to bike to school.

Today on Dad Strength A band pull-apart tip The burden of carrying things silently High protein diets vs strength training for muscle A book, a quote, and a dad joke dadstrength.com/archive/high...

Whenever the current U.S. administration makes a statement about public health, my questions aren’t about where they got their science from (LOL) – but how they benefit. From today's edition: newsletter.dadstrength.com/p/we-re-all-...

Personal site is up – along with an archive of my published writing – and a pretty good URL, if I do say so myself. geoff.site

Nepal's Gen-Z revolution was a short, wild ride that ended up with the world's first democratic election taking place on Discord. I get into it in today's newsletter. newsletter.dadstrength.com/p/the-gen-z-...

The defining element of a civilization is how it encodes wisdom and values into long-term memory. This wisdom lives as institutions, laws, and public works — the structural encoding of more wisdom than anyone can accumulate within a single lifetime. medium.com/p/caabef640c5d

"Chronically angry people can turn high blood pressure into a contagious disease." In today's edition: sleep, school, and agility. newsletter.dadstrength.com/p/sleep-scie...

@dadstrength.bsky.social The em in em-dash stands for "emotional support"

I don't know how many science skeptics are out there but if it only takes one issue (vaccines, climate change) to count, it might be close to 40% of North Americans. Feel free to check me on this. But it would be good for them to know that many scientists want to/are trying to repair this.

“Moving from a less walkable (25th percentile) city to a more walkable city (75th percentile) increased walking by 1,100 daily steps, on average. These changes hold across different genders, ages and body mass index values…” www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Suggesting updating "red herring" to "red dye #3"

Hot off the presses Two exercises for power, the Screen-Time Continuum, and our new informational environment Plus some reads, a quote, and a dad joke newsletter.dadstrength.com/p/power-scre...

I am delighted to share this clip from The Nature of Things' "Dad Bods" episode featuring Dad Strength. gem.cbc.ca/the-nature-o...

If you're the kind of strength nerd who will wax eloquent about the mTOR pathway BUT don't know the story of its discovery, then strap in for one of my all-time favourites: radiolab.org/podcast/dirt...

I enjoy writing for AskMen. I think of the readers as a younger brother — someone who is asking sincere questions and periodically listening to terrible podcasts — and I write for that person. www.askmen.com/fitness/work...

New piece for @theglobeandmail.com on trying to keep the wheels on: www.theglobeandmail.com/life/health-...

Everyone in the past was neurotypical, which is how we got things like this single-author, eight-volume encyclopedia of ferns

When Life Gives You Limins... A short piece on the in-between moments bangfitness.medium.com/when-life-gi...

How we score on health is how we score as a country. Health and wellbeing are central to evaluating national progress, by @geoffgirvitz.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti... via @theglobeandmail.com #sdoh

I started this piece quite a while ago. pre-Carney. Lots has changed but the values and principles remain the same. www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

One framework to organize rest periods is to ask whether an exercise is fatigue–resistant or fatigue-sensitive. Endurance is in the former camp. Not only can endurance exercises hold up under fatigue, they work best after you’re already fatigued. newsletter.dadstrength.com/p/resting-en...

One of the best things I've ever done for myself—or at least for my daily organization—is to list three top priorities for the day and then file everything else under "Side-Quests".

It's impossible to live in this culture and not regularly come face-to-face with money — as a measure, as a construct, as a concept, and as a hard-limit. It is impossible to be completely rational about money because of all of that weight and complexity. So, where does this leave us as parents?

As a parent, I have to wake up every day and decide whether to listen to the overwhelming body of scientific evidence or, like, 20 guys who sell supplements.

"We’ve replaced the largely one-way street of mass media with not even just a two-way street of mass media and the internet, like we had in the 2010s, but an infinitely expanding intersection of cars that all think they have the right of way." www.garbageday.email/p/when-was-t...

Is Tim Hortons Canadian? www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Applying BJ Fogg's Ability Chain to social change newsletter.dadstrength.com/p/3-circles-... Also Mindfulness over ritual for rehab Talking politics with kids “Education is the point at which we decide whether we love the world enough to assume responsibility for it." – Hannah Arendt

Many kids around the age of six can’t just play a game but are forever drafting and redrafting rules to their advantage. For this reason, it will never stop being hilarious that guys will meet some kind of arbitrary physical standard then declare it to be the standard that all men must meet.

american society has been at “TV Interstitial from ROBOCOP” for a while but “president does a car commercial on the white house lawn” is really pushin it

“Let us forget with generosity those who cannot love us.” — Pablo Neruda Also in this week's edition of Dad Strength: * Heat-seeker: advice on warm-ups * How to be a provider * The Fracturing newsletter.dadstrength.com/p/how-to-be-...

Honestly surprised that I haven't come across miasma truthers.

In this weeks episode of Dad Strength: The guy who could have defeated Arnold Schwarzenegger in that T-II barroom scene. Plus nighttime carbs and a story about strong, capable communities. newsletter.dadstrength.com/p/terminator...

Quick story about community: Toronto is covered in snow and people are parking further and further away from the curb. This happened to hold up a street car I was on. When I stepped off to see what the problem was, I spotted a member of the personal training studio. I own. We both ...

Today, on Dad Strength: * Can you be manly and emotionally fragile at the same time? * The motivation continuum * How to build a bigger deadlift newsletter.dadstrength.com/p/the-motiva...

Given the planned attacks on Wikipedia, archiving this seems like an easy but important action.

The next time someone brings up the "Hard times create strong men" line, ask them if they're referring to the Social Determinants of Health.

Everyone squats differently. Here’s how to find your Signature Squat. Plus a banger of a Michel Foucault quote. newsletter.dadstrength.com/p/find-your-...

When I die, I hope the last thing I see is a supercut of every time I’ve walked into a room and startled my wife.

"And not even the most MAGA conservative team owner would argue that 99 percent of NFL cornerbacks are DEI hires. They could try it, but there are 32 teams, each with two starting corners. Are they willing to wager that focusing on merit will unearth 63 more Cooper DeJeans?"

"During the course of a lifetime the heart does an amount of work sufficient to lift a one-ton object 150 miles into the air." Just imagine what you can do with your whole self. Quote above from The Body: A Guide for Occupants by Bill Bryson.

"We assessed the impacts of misleading TikTok videos and compared the effectiveness of debunking videos from medical experts vs. laypeople... Notably... expert didactic videos benefited more from incorporating high-tempo background music, primarily through the suppression of counterarguing."

Aging well has a lot to do with treating your body and mind like a Wordle puzzle. You wake up and ask, "Ok, what are we working with today?"

Death of a salesman: how to move past nagging your kids (anyone, really) to help them create positive change. newsletter.dadstrength.com/p/death-of-a...

Suddenly, out of nowhere, a declassified World War II-era CIA guide to sabotaging fascism in the workplace has become one of the most popular free ebooks on the internet: www.404media.co/declassified...

“...Calm is a form of resistance.” John Berger via @naomiaklein.bsky.social

Wait. Copying without attribution or payment is bad all of a sudden!?

Last Saturday, I attended a town hall at @westendphoenix.bsky.social. Loved it. Great example of how community is the antidote! One insight from the event I want to share: When absolute noise hits the news cycle (AKA floods the zone), people give it valuable airtime. Let's agree it's a bad idea