Book Review: Jordan Castro, ‘Muscle Man’

I have a certain fondness for the gym bro. There’s a puppy-like, amateurish idea that you can decimate your body and push it to failure with the obliteration of the mind. It makes intuitive sense that bodily manipulation will result in mental stability, as it sometimes but does not often do, and the 18-year-olds raised on muscular supremacy via Instagram Reels have internalized this to create a new lifting revolution based on the ideal of physical beauty. But with all of this emphasis on appearances, where does the mind come in?