Geoff Girvitz
@geoffgirvitz.bsky.social
Father, founder, physical culturist I explore health through writing, behaviour design, and community-building newsletter.dadstrength.com
At some point, I realized that I preferred Alice Coltrane’s music to her husband’s. Just spotted this biography – looking forward to reading.
Sharing for the “socially progressive but fiscally conservative” folks.
Brent Toderian@brenttoderian.bsky.social · 2mo agoIMPORTANT: The Dutch invested €595 million annually on urban biking, resulting in €19 BILLION saved in public health care costs alone. That’s how smart governments do the math on investing in better mobility. Let’s be clear— it WASTES public money to NOT do it. #CityMakingMath HT @modacitylife.com
If you’re a member of the *Struggles to Take a Compliment Club*, exercise can be an incredible practice. You don’t have to gas yourself up, you just have to accurately and dispassionately describe what’s happening.
I wish that wearing anything beyond a baseball hat or toque didn’t feel like such a massive affectation. The closest man have gotten has been a flat cap. I’m going to light a candle and place it on hand-blown Italian glass in hope of summoning @dieworkwear.bsky.social
Are barbell squats and deadlifts essential and awesome OR dangerous and/or overhyped. Here’s some clarity: Bodies adapt to stresses… within reason. That means that even questionable technique is less problematic than doing too much too soon.
“I asked ChatGPT”- ok well I asked the mycelium and it said to plant more trees and to tell you to return to the forest
Here’s a picture of me doing Lamaze breathing as I navigate the 42º angles of the Milton velodrome (AKA the Mattamy National Cycling Centre) for @theglobeandmail.com
Learning the ropes of track cycling at Canada’s national velodrome
A recreational bike rider’s experience at Mattamy National Cycling Centre reveals the speed, demands and discipline of track cycling
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As a dad 20+ year fitness guy (trainer/coach & studio owner), I never use exercise as punishment: * You're late to class? The punishment is that you've missed some class * Conditioning isn't good enough? If you care about that as an athlete, we can work in some ways that don't totally suck
Today on Dad Strength: an important update on prostate cancer screening, a strategy for opening minds before getting critical, and a physical culture book review. Plus a banger of a dad joke. A book, a quote, and a dad joke dadstrength.com/archive/when...
When Fitness Went Global
Today on Dad Strength Prostate cancer warning Yes and… Book review: When Fitness Went Global A book, a quote, and a dad joke
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Thank you for asking what my wrestling walkout song would be. That’s very important in my culture.
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Opinion: With AI, you are the product. But Canada can do something to keep citizens’ data safe
Hello, readers! Welcome back to Business Cycle – a look at what The Globe and Mail’s business columnists are talking about. In this week’s edition, we’re looking at how many companies are scraping you...
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New piece up for @theglobeandmail.com on motivation and overcoming the obstacles to a lifelong exercise practice www.theglobeandmail.com/life/wellnes...
Stretching isn’t the only way to increase range of motion New piece for @theglobeandmail.com that includes other ways up the f̶l̶e̶x̶i̶b̶i̶l̶i̶t̶y̶ range of motion mountain www.theglobeandmail.com/life/wellnes...
Stretching isn’t the only way to increase range of motion
Many types of resistance training can provide similar benefits, research shows
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* If you don’t like traffic congestion * If you like quieter, safer cities and cleaner air * If you wish that physical movement were easier to integrate into daily life * If you would like to see more local businesses thriving Bikes – and the infrastructure for them – do this.
Cycle Toronto@cycletoronto.bsky.social · 10mo agoThis is another gross jurisdictional overreach from a government that feels no shame peddling false statements. Doug Ford’s Toronto is a shortcut for cars to drive through unimpeded, not a city of vibrant communities where people live and thrive.
@avansi.bsky.social paints a picture of what food affordability and quality could look like through publicly owned grocery stores.
Aaron Vansintjan@avansi.bsky.social · 10mo ago"Instead of the President's Choice, imagine... the People's Choice" An explainer I made with @breachmedia.ca www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPuE...
If I say "Rasputin dancing to Bony M" or "Saturday Night Fever from Measles," you get the idea. Your first mental pass is as good or better than an AI-generated video. Better, probably. And it won't burn as much electricity as a microwave running for an hour. theconversation.com/openais-newl...
OpenAI’s newly launched Sora 2 makes AI’s environmental impact impossible to ignore
As AI shifts from text to video, its appetite for power and water soars, presenting a climate-policy issue.
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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-...
We're all trying to find the guy who did this
Plus: Find your master exercise
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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
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Writing and projects by Geoff Girvitz
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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 Gen Z revolution
Plus: How to maintain power as you age
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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
Our Persistence of Memory
“The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting”
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