On Strength & Sovereignty
Essay 5 of 17 in the Health Series: “The Body as Civilization”
“He who sweats more in training bleeds less in war.” - Spartan maxim
My earliest understanding of strength did not come from theory or philosophy. It came from the bar. I was fifteen years old, lifting at the local rec center, bench-pressing two plates, 225 pounds (I was 6’0, 180lbs at the time), for the uninitiated. I pressed out three reps cleanly and …
