First post ahoy!

Hello and welcome to my weblog, Experiments in Manliness.

This weblog tries to answer the question, “What does it mean to a be healthy man in today’s world?” As well as offer you a fine collection of tips, tricks, experiments, and fresh perspectives on health, fitness, relationships, and all things manly.

I invite you to read, comment, try out experiments, and make suggestions for new ones. This blog is for everyone and feedback may be rewarded with an assortment of baked goods and a lifetime of boundless appreciation.

According to my favorite bathroom read, Men’s Health Magazine, health and quite often happiness comes from obtaining tight abs, big arms, slimmer waists, and a longer, stronger Johnson. While I don’t deny wanting to have any of those things, out of it’s 10 million starry-eyed readers, how many of us look anything like the cover guy: chiseled, lean, and meticulously well-groomed? In fact, as the fashion, beauty, and health industries experience a surge in profits all over the world, especially here in Canada and the US, men are looking more and more the opposite of healthy: un-chiseled, McLean, and plagued by higher rates cardiovascular diseases than ever before.

Experiments in Manliness is about exposing the assumptions, beliefs, statements made about what it means to be a man in today’s world and putting them up of the scrutiny of our failing health, lack lustre relationships, and the degradation of our environment. The Experiment involves taking the best of what magazines like Men’s Health has to offer in Fitness, Health, and Relationships, filtering out the sh*t, and piecing together an approach to the masculine that celebrates diversity in the male experience; one that recognizes that men want healthy, satisfying, and fulfilling relationships with ourselves, our brothers from another mother, partners, spouses, mothers, fathers, children, and the world around us.