
Joel Snape
Journalist and Editor at Freelance
Freelance Editor at Men's Fitness (UK)
Writer, video maker, BJJ black belt, piano dabbler. Work in @guardian, @ObserverUK, @thetimes, @sciencefocus, and a bunch of other places.
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1 week ago |
taipeitimes.com | Joel Snape
By Joel Snape / The Guardian It’s fairly well established that strength training is helpful at every age: as well as building muscle, it strengthens tendons and ligaments, increases bone density and seems to have protective effects against everything from osteoporosis to dementia.
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theguardian.com | Joel Snape
It’s fairly well established that strength training is helpful at every age: as well as building muscle, it strengthens tendons and ligaments, increases bone density and seems to have protective effects against everything from osteoporosis to dementia. But a new study based on data collected over two decades in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, suggests that another physical attribute might be just as important – and it’s one that declines even faster than strength as the years go by. The good news?
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irishtimes.com | Joel Snape
Looking back to 2022, it seems impossible that anyone ever believed that Brian “Liver King” Johnson achieved his physique without pharmaceutical assistance. He looks like a hot water bottle stuffed with bowling balls, an 1980s action figure with more veins – an improbably muscular man who put his bodybuilder-shaming physique down to a diet of “raw liver, raw bone marrow and raw testicles”.
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2 weeks ago |
independent.co.uk | Joel Snape
In FocusAs TV presenter Ben Shephard shows off his toned torso in ‘Men’s Health’ magazine, fitness writer Joel Snape considers how men who might not have the same time and resources can still maximise results (and minimise injury risk)Can you really be in the best shape of your life in your fifth decade? The obvious answer is yes, if you weren’t in great shape before, but the slightly less obvious answer is: yes, if you’re Ben Shephard.
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2 weeks ago |
theguardian.com | Radheyan Simonpillai |Joel Snape |Stuart Heritage |Benjamin Lee |Jesse Hassenger |Pamela Hutchinson | +1 more
Mission: ImpossibleMission: Impossible’s slick and sensuous surface bears no trace of the drama behind the scenes making it. During production, the screenwriters of Jurassic Park (David Koepp) and Chinatown (Robert Towne) sent in duelling script pages for director Brian De Palma and producer Tom Cruise to wrestle over.
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Shout out to the painter working on the house next door BLASTING the audiobook of Middlemarch from a Bluetooth speaker strapped to his belt

Did wrestling tonight for the first time in a while. One of my old coaches told me "When you do wrestling right, it's what aikido promises to be like", and that's completely true.

Has anyone done a Tolkeincut of the Hobbit 3, where Bilbo gets cracked on the head just as the five armies are massing, and then it cuts to him being told what happened after he wakes up?