Washington Post classical music critic Michael Andor Brodeur is a lifelong lifter, and she joins host Krys Boyd to discuss his examination of modern masculinity, why the gym took over after the Industrial Revolution, and what building muscle means for healthy — or unhealthy — identities
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Roy Meals, clinical professor of orthopedic surgery at UCLA, joins host Krys Boyd to discuss the anatomical properties of muscle.
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Amanda Mull from The Atlantic talks about the people who want to get fit but not in extreme ways, the trainers who advocate for physical activity without pushing limits, and why they are often left behind.
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Daniel E. Lieberman, professor of human evolutionary biology at Harvard University, joins us to talk about why we exercise and how that’s changed, the myths and realities of its benefits, and helpful motivations for getting off the couch.
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Danielle Friedman talks about how getting in shape morphed from simply being a beauty tool to a force for physical and emotional well-being, and what that says about feminism.
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Virginia Sole-Smith, a journalist and author of The Eating Instinct, joins us to talk about weight stigma in scientific research and subpar medical treatment attached to high BMI.
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Duke University evolutionary anthropologist Herman Pontzer joins us to discuss how the same drive that led us to leave other species behind is now negatively affecting our health. His story “Humans Evolved to Exercise” appears in the Scientific American.
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Nicola Twilley tells the story of researchers trying to better understand exercise – and how we can circumvent it while attaining the same results.
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