Brett, Author at The Art of Manliness

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How to Turn Treading Water Into a Legit Workout

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Skill of the Week: Effectively Traverse the Monkey Bars

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How I Turned ChatGPT Into My Personal Nutrition Coach and You Can Too

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Chains, Bands, and Bigger Gains: A Weightlifter’s Guide to Accommodating Resistance

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Skill of the Week: Tape a Sprained Ankle

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Podcast #1,084: Overdiagnosed — How Our Obsession with Medical Testing and Labels Is Making Us Sicker

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A Man’s Guide to Blood Pressure: What It Is, Why It Matters, and How to Keep It in Check

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Podcast #1,076: The Microbiome Master Key — How 100 Trillion Bacteria Influence Your Weight, Mood, and All-Around Health

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The Insanely Difficult Standards of History’s Hardest P.E. Program

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Which Fitness Program Is Right for You?

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A Review of the MovNat Workshop

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Strengthen Your Tribe: A Report on the Atomic Athlete Vanguard

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A Back-to-School Game Plan for Dads

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Podcast #1,056: The 80/80 Marriage — A New Model for a Happier, Stronger Relationship

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Podcast #1,039: What’s Behind the Rise of Parent-Child Estrangement?

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Take the D Word Off the Table

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Podcast #1,085: The Preparation — An Adventure-Driven, Skill-Building Alternative to College for Young Men

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Podcast #1,072: Men Don’t Run in the Rain — And 7 Other Essential Lessons for Being a Man

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The Dad Instinct: How Fathers Prepare Kids for the Wider World

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The 4 Parenting Styles (And Which One Is Best)

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The Yearly Marriage Checkup

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Podcast #1,068: Building Tribe — How to Create and Sustain Communities of Men

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Podcast #1,060: No, There Isn’t a Loneliness Epidemic (And That May Be an Even Bigger Problem)

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Podcast #1,058: The Science of Porn: Myths, Facts, and Overlooked Issues

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Podcast #1,070: How to Have the Manners and Charm of a Proper English Gentleman

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How to Flirt Like It’s 1995

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Podcast #1,052: Stop Saying Um (And Fix the Other Vocal Tics That Are Sabotaging Your Speaking)

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Why We Value a Sense of Humor (And Distrust People Who Take Themselves Too Seriously)

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Recovering Your Personal History of Manhood

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How to Tie a Tie

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How to Carve a Turkey

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How to Jump Start a Car – The Complete Guide

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Skill of the Week: Throw a Dynamite Straight Punch

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The Case for Shaving at Night

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Your No-Nonsense Guide to Choosing the Right Beard Style

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A Handy Dandy Men’s Grooming Checklist

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10 Things That Will Put Hair on Your Chest

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Building the Perfect Dopp Kit

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10 Steps to Giving the Best, Best Man Speech

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Podcast #625: The Code of the Warrior

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How To Deadlift: The Complete Guide to Perfect Form

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What to Do If You Get Kicked in the Nards

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Podcast #592: Being a Man in the Lousy Modern World

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How to Know If a Woman Likes You

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Men and Status: How Testosterone Fuels the Drive for High Social Status

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Manly Honor: Part II — The Decline of Traditional Honor in the West, Ancient Greece to the Romantic Period

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The Decline of Male Space

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Podcast #496: What Plato’s Republic Has to Say About Being a Man

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