Valhalla Barbell Club is a small volunteer association of strength athletes in Wichita, Kansas. This is an interview with Valhalla Barbell Club founder Daniel J. Tennison, where he shares the group’s experience with creating a Barbell Club from scratch. When did you form the club? Can you describe the initiative? How did you come […]
Welcome to Valhalla: building a barbell club Read More »
This article is a case study partly based on ethnographic analysis about a strength training gym. The goal here is to explore the concepts related to “homeness” on the choice of the training environment. It sets the ground for subsequent essays on alternative training settings and facilities and the concepts involved in their evolution. This
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I’ve been receiving e-mails and comments about a new app called Lulu . Basically, it tries to reproduce and automate, for women, what has been assumed to be practiced by men only: share intimate information about ex-girlfriends and hook-ups. With this app, a woman can anonymously rate her ex-whatever. I think there is no other word
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