The condescending phrase "Do you even lift bro?" initially grew out of fitness and bodybuilding forums post-2010. Originally that rhetorical question was used to attack the pomposity of an individual forwarding seemingly intellectual and evidence-based opinions, reducing their argument to a fundamental point: where's the evidence of you personally demonstrating the reality of your claims? You can probably see where I'm going here. Contextually, it is the trump card of the gym bro over the...

"Withdraw into yourself and look… If you do not yet see yourself beautiful, act as does the creator of a statue." — Plotinus There is a long tradition of esoteric organisations built around the promise of transformation. I don't think I need names, but most of them suffer from the same limitations. The results are invisible or at least imprecise. Progression is often predicated on intangible qualities — shifts in the subtle body, energetic field, adjustments in the karmic ledger, utterance...

The practice of Calisthenics has an ancient pedigree, from the Greek kallos (beauty)  + sthenos (strength) , calisthenics is, by...