Cinemax’s ‘Warrior’ Is a Love Letter to Bruce Lee and His Lasting Legacy
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Close your eyes and picture it: San Francisco, 1878. Ah Sahm, a martial arts prodigy, steps off a boat from China, searching for his sister. One fateful fight later, he’s a suited-up Hop Wei hatchet man battling rival gangs in Chinatown’s infamous Tong Wars, scrapping with Irish cops, romancing fierce females, and generally kicking ass while grappling with socio-political issues (racism, immigration) still relevant today. Sounds fresh, right? No wonder Bruce Lee dreamed it up 50 years ago. No, really. Cinemax’s hit series Warrior emerged from a concept Lee originally had pitched in the early 1970s, and despite not seeing the light of day until April of this year, the show has been a sleeper hit with audiences and critics, already getting the green light for a second season. The way Warrior connects so profoundly in 2019 proves that Lee was, in the words of star Andrew Koji, “such a trailblazer in terms of progressive thinking.” Perhaps even cooler is what Warrior can teach us about the man whose philosophy, fighting, and fitness were all far ahead of his time. It’s just more evidence that the legacy of this icon--who died at 32 of a cerebral edema—is as strong as ever. THE LONG ROAD TO WARRIORThe rebirth of Warrior—shunned by ’70s execs queasy about a Chinese leading man, just months before they green-lit Kung Fu, starring David freakin’ Carradine as a Shaolin monk in the Old West—dates back to 2000. That’s when Lee’s daughter, Shannon, uncovered some of her father’s long-forgotten writings. Years later, the president of the Bruce Lee Foundation teamed up with an intrigued Justin Lin, director of four Fast and Furious films, and Banshee creator Jonathan Tropper to develop the show. “We had an eight-page treatment and some drafts, notes, and drawings,” Shannon Lee recalls. “We had to update and flesh out the world for modern audiences, but the bones of the project--the Tong Wars, the Chinese Exclusion Act, the Chinese American experience, these two worlds coming together and crashing—are really true to my father’s vision.” Which makes sense, as the San Francisco-born, Hong Kong-raised Lee’s own life was a melting pot. At a time when the world was even more divided, he married American Linda Emery (now Linda Lee Cadwell). He also controversially taught martial arts to non-Chinese students, including Steve McQueen and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, and bridged the gap between East and West with films like Way of the Dragon and Enter the Dragon. “I forgot the exact quote he used, but it’s something about ‘we’re all brothers and sisters under the sun,’” says Tropper, himself a kung fu black belt and lifelong Lee fan. “What he did to break through racial barriers just proved it can be done—and should be done.” [RELATED4] RESPECTING THE LEGACYBeyond the contemporary dialogue, evocative sets, and killer costumes, the show’s most striking aspect is stunt coordinator Brett Chan’s dynamic fight choreography. Tropper notes it takes days of shooting with multiple units to “make sure we get a really great fight” that Bruce Lee would relish. Portraying lovable underdogs with outsized swagger, the 5'8" Lee pioneered realistic, street-style fighting, eschewing the flowery movements of flying swordsmen found in traditional Chinese costume dramas. He mastered Wing Chun kung fu and created Jeet Kune Do (“the way of the intercepting fist”), eventually embracing the “style of no style,” stressing flexibility, once telling an interviewer, “Be formless, shapeless, like water.” “The sense of, if it works, use it, and hack away at the inessential, you can apply to anything,” Tropper observes. “Just figuring out what really works and making that your discipline.” Serious Lee fans will spot charming homages in some of Ah Sahm’s actions, from cheeky head tilts and facial expressions to licking his own blood and comically sitting upon a felled opponent. “As an actor, I don’t want to imitate,” says Koji, who trained at London’s Shaolin Temple UK as a youth. “But seeing how he moves and what he does in his fights, I try to implement some of those things in ways that work with the story.” Tapping into that tenacity, Koji read up on Lee, watched his films, improved his diet, and trained for months before and after shooting the Warrior pilot in Cape Town, South Africa. “What I took away is Bruce Lee’s whole attitude, what you can learn spiritually and emotionally through pushing yourself in a physical way and by developing discipline,” says the 32-year-old, who admits he was close to giving up acting before landing this life-changing role. Of course, none of Bruce Lee’s onscreen magic was possible without the muscle to execute it, and with his own body, he was also quite forward thinking. “[My father] spent easily a few hours a day training,” Shannon Lee recalls, “and I’ve heard stories from his students where he’d say, ‘Hey, look at my leg,’ and then he’d flex and this tiny little muscle would pop to the surface, and he’d be like, ‘I’ve been working on this.’” [RELATED3] An Enduring InfluenceAll these elements add up to a simply stunning show—and witnessing Ah Sahm’s trajectory imparts what is perhaps the most lasting effect of Bruce Lee’s short time on this earth: pure inspiration. That’s surely something everyone—from Warrior’s cast and crew to the Wu-Tang Clan to a pint-size Japanese nunchaku wizard—can take away, but perhaps his daughter understands it best. “My father was just a maven of style, of personal power, of personal expression and freedom,” Shannon Lee says. “The thing people hook into with him is a real sense of possibility, a sense that he did something truly amazing with his life, with a whole bunch of odds stacked against him—and that makes people believe that there’s a lot of possibility for themselves, honestly.” If that’s not a warrior we should all seek to emulate, then who is? You can catch up on Warrior with the MAX GO streaming app. [RELATED2]
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Resistance and Adaptation: Is Your Environment Weakening You?
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Training is based on a brilliant, simple, and intuitive understanding: facing resistance forces the body to adapt and become more effective at overcoming that resistance. Exposure to challenge makes us stronger. Practice makes perfect-ish.
The obvious question then is: when immersed in an environment that pulls us towards facing less resistance than ever before, might we be allowing ourselves to be less capable than ever before?
Absent of resistance we remain a lesser model—not fully activated. Thus, intentionally facing adversity is deeply essential to human development. Instincts pull us towards chasing pleasure and avoiding pain, but those drives developed as useful modifiers to our natural, primal setting where constant exposure to resistances was inherent to reality. An instinct to avoid extreme pain spurred humans to get their butts up and going to collect firewood, to hunt, and to collect nuts for roasting over the fire. Faced with the pain of starvation and the prospect of another bone-chilling evening, they chose to get to work.
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In today’s world, physical work is not spurred by instincts to avoid pain. Rather the work, itself, would be the most painful physical experience most humans face. Even on the coldest night, the pleasure of warmth, comfort, and an abundance of delicious food are virtually guaranteed without any physical struggle. We can, then, wake the next morning and hit a button, remotely starting our car so it is warm by the time we get in. Disconnected from reality, we are allowed to endlessly avoid even the most minor discomforts, but, paradoxically, when pleasure and avoidance of pain are allowed to dominate our lives, we suffer immensely.
Unchecked instincts to chase pleasure and, most of all, avoid discomfort prove extremely self-destructive in our modern convenience, comfort, and entertainment-saturated environment. Today obesity, mental disorder, suicide, and drug overdoses reach record highs. We’ve sanitized the environment of all discomfort and risk only to leave ourselves as the primary threat to our own survival. Amid such an environment, the primary task of human fulfillment becomes creating an understanding of when to override instincts and then disciplining oneself to habitually do so at these times. We must consistently override the pain-pleasure drives and expose ourselves to the resistances once inherent to reality.
This is especially hard to do in the modern world. The only factor that consistently rivals the influence of pain for behavior modification is social pressure, which, also, does us no favors. Immersed in brilliantly addictive technology, insulated from reality, and indoctrinated habits that pull us miles from our nature, the normal path creates impulsive, brittle humans, hardly a shell of their inspired, capable potential.
We Must Sharpen Our InstrumentsThe goal of raising children is to help them transcend these most primal drives in order to choose actions that make them more capable and serve a higher purpose than pleasure and pain. Early on, we do this for them. We force them to eat vegetables and deny them excessive dessert. We get them back on the bike when they fall and back in the pool when they get water up their nose. We even take them to get shots, where a needle is stabbed into their body transmitting a weakened or dead form of a deadly disease. They scream, become crabby, and run a fever for the rest of the day, but we know this is a necessary part of their body growing resistance to diseases that could, otherwise, kill them. It is always a balance. Too much resistance would be an issue. We don’t immunize with full-strength ass-kicker smallpox. Yet in the modern world, too much resistance is rarely the issue.
After the germ theory of disease became common wisdom, society began going to great lengths to destroy all bacteria and pathogens from the areas we touched. The Hygiene Hypothesis contended that sterilized environments would contribute most to our overall health. From there we were consumed by a world of anti-bacterial soap, 409, bleach, and a constantly sanitized environment. Likewise, mass media alerted us about playground accidents, bullies, child predators, and rain prompting many parents to adopt policies whereby their children were kept insulated from life and washed in self-esteem each day. Now, many look at the Hygiene Hypothesis and note the evidence that it has led to an explosion of auto-immune disorders. Similarly, there is evidence demonstrating less immunity in people who frequently use antibiotics.
Today’s issues stem from sanitizing every inch of the environment, insulating ourselves from every pain, numbing any uncomfortable feedback, and allowing ourselves to become a less capable, less resilient, less activated form of a human. Divorced from real consequences, there is no positive adaptation. We need bumps, bruises, scars, calluses, and exposure to the resistances once inherent to reality. These are the battles our bodies, minds, and subconscious processes are purposed for. In their absence, we lose vital capabilities and manufacture battles against ourselves.
The Resistances Inherent to RealityThe caged tiger at the zoo is safe and assured of daily feedings, yet she hardly resembles the magnificent, fiery beast nature intended. The cost of assured survival is her soul. As the world’s most adaptable species, humans are more reliant on environmental feedback and resistance to mold them than any other animal. I fear our environment is deactivating our human nature and pulling us to become a lesser species. While I don’t anticipate an actual devolution, each of us, individually, are now able to remain a coddled, blunt shell—a lesser version—or we can intentionally explore the conditions necessary for human fulfillment and invite the resistance we need.
Wim Hof has dedicated his life to the path of primal reconnection and opened the door to amazing human capabilities. Some of his most impressive feats include climbing to 23,600 feet on Mount Everest in only shorts and shoes, climbing Mount Kilimanjaro in only shorts, holding the world record for the fastest barefoot half-marathon on ice and snow, and 16 times breaking the world record for most time spent in direct contact with ice. We may hear these feats and flippantly dismiss them under the guise that Hof is superhuman, but that belies the grander moral. He is human. He shares our DNA and our capacity for adaptation.
Hof is not an alien species, in fact, he’s taught his breathing methods to millions. At his retreats he’ll routinely take large groups through long, barely-clothed climbs in sub-zero temperatures where they dance and project a startling resiliency to the elements. In 2013, Hof and 12 people trained in his breathing methods were injected with a dead strain of the e-coli virus that normally induces days of violent sickness. None of them showed any symptoms. They literally changed the way scientists look at immune response.
Hof’s methods aren’t particularly advanced or complicated. In fact, both the response to cold and the breathing techniques are about learning to tap back into autonomic response and becoming practiced at dealing with resistances that were once inherent to human reality. They are about quieting the mind and going deeper into experience, rather than running away from discomfort. If you are looking for where to start, Hof suggests a daily 3-minute cold shower. As he says, “a cold shower a day keeps the doctor away.”
You Need More PainWe desperately need pain and practice denying immediate pleasure. Physical pain is an especially powerful force. Most people will not subject themselves to five minutes of intense discomfort, in order to feel great for the rest of the day. Most won’t subject themselves to regular 30 to 60-minute intervals of intermittent discomfort to live longer and feel great throughout that life. People flurry around searching for purchases, information, and gossip that will make them feel better, but these pleasures are insufficient. They can never measure up to the fulfillment that comes from entering resistance to become a more capable, activated human.
Being a wimp virtually ensures mental and physical pains in life. Wimps avoid the physical experiences their bodies need and become self-consumed by any affliction, thus, incapable of showing empathy for their fellow humans. Toughness is a virtue. Willpower is trainable. This message should not be taken to extremes, but be even warier of the extreme view that humans are fragile and somehow in need of less physical hardship.
We should enjoy the immense luxuries and perks of modern living but must continue to expose ourselves to the broad spectrum of physical challenges necessary for fully activating our bodies and minds. In the absence of the primal environment, it is up to us to create a routine for incorporating physical hardships into our lives in order to pull us towards a heightened human existence. This starts with consistent exercise, but it doesn’t end there. We should make ourselves adaptable, resilient, and impervious to hardship. We need to seek a broad spectrum of challenges.
In an effort to help train this capacity to enter hardship for a deeper purpose, I’ll be beginning a four-week, six-day per week Anti-Fragile Human Challenge. Each week's challenges will release on the Friday prior to that week. These will take five minutes or less each day. For those who train already, you’ll get an extra boost that pulls you outside your typical training patterns. For those wanting to build consistent habits, we’ll grow our willpower through daily effort. The time required is less than 1/288th of your day, but it will change each day’s trajectory and lead to exponential long-term growth. I encourage you to challenge friends or family to join along. Depending on how we leverage it, social pressure can be a powerful force for good or bad.
We all have five minutes or less. There is no excuse not to be a more activated, inspired human. Life is too short to be normal.
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The Six Pack of Knowledge: Thought Leaders in Hypertrophy
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This is a set of interviews with some of the leading minds and thought leaders working in the industry today. I am your host, Tom MacCormick, a personal trainer and online coach. A few things make these podcasts unique, and I hope enjoyable and inspiring: I am trying to curate the greatest hypertrophy experts on the planet. I think we have gotten off to a good start with the experts below. Secondly, I am constantly working with clients in the gym and online, people who face challenges that are unique to them but all with the common goal of being fit, healthy, and showing those results in their physiques. So, I have plenty of questions and experiences to bear on the conversations in these podcasts. All these podcasts, taken individually or together, represent the cutting edge in human performance and hypertrophy training. It's based on solid research, extensive expertise, and knowledge gained through real-world training practices.
Staying Open-Minded but, Sceptical to Achieve Elite Performance
Our guest for this episode is Dr. Andy Galpin. Andy is a tenured Professor in the Center for Sports Performance at CSU Fullerton. He is a pioneer in the field of human performance education and has his finger on the pulse of all the cutting-edge modalities you can use to level up in your athletic pursuits.
In this episode, we dive deep on all things muscle building. Andy channels both his inner-bro and inner-nerd to give you a host of golden nuggets you can take away and apply to improve your results.
The Number 1 Factor That Dictates If You Build Muscle, Strength, and Power
Dr. John Rusin is one of the fitness and sports performance industry’s leading experts in the pain-free performance training model that blends the world of strength and conditioning with clinical movement based diagnostic medicine to provide the ultimate results based methods.
In this episode, we discuss, red flags that might be holding you back, the 6 foundational movement patterns and how to develop strength in them, how to bulletproof your body, and why strength is never a weakness.
The Difference between Discipline and Motivation with JC Deen
Our guest for this episode is JC Deen. JC has been involved in athletics for over a decade, and now works as a fitness consultant to fitness enthusiasts and athletes all across the globe.
He whips people into shape and helps them learn how to make fitness complement their lives, as opposed to ruling it.
In this episode, we discuss the importance of having a mentor. The psychology of achieving your goals. The lessons he learned getting ripped for the first time. How to develop positive habits and rituals, a surprising fact about his past, and a whole lot more.
Increasing the ROI on Your Diet and Training with Eric Bach
Eric Bach describes himself as a bacon, bourbon, coffee connoisseur, and overly invested sports fan. For a decade has helped high school, college, and pro athletes. Helps guys to build confident, strong, athletic bodies. Works both in-person and online.
Eric has tried all the industry BS gimmicks. Discovered they didn’t work and has boiled his training down to the following motto… “Success lies in the relentless pursuit of the basics.”
In the episode, we discuss the basics of building an athletic and aesthetic physique, the key muscle building habits you need to know, common mistakes most lifters are making, how fast you can realistically build muscle, and a whole bunch more.
The Skinny Advantage with Brad Borland
Starting out as a scrawny 125lb kid at six feet, two inches, Brad Borland took up weight training at the tender age of fourteen and ended up a 220lb competitive, drug-free, natural bodybuilder several years later. Now, armed with both knowledge and muscle, he has helped countless individuals domestically and abroad.
Brad is also a University Lecturer with a Master’s degree in Kinesiology and a Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist (CSCS) with the National Strength and Conditioning Association (NSCA).
We discuss a wide range of subjects including, why people use genetics as an excuse, realistic rates of gain for a natural lifter, how to filter the information overload the modern lifter is bombarded with, and Brad’s favorite way to train if you want to build muscle as quickly as possible.
Strategies That Can Take You from Good to Great in the Gym
Our guest for this episode is Dr. Joel Seedman. With over 15 years of personal and team training, strength coaching, and nutritional counseling experience, Joel works with a wide variety of clientele.
To maximize performance and health, Joel focuses on improving his clients' muscle function and movement mechanics. By doing this, all characteristics of performance, fitness, and health improve-no matter the athlete or training goal.
In this episode, we dive deep on what causes muscle to grow, the role of genetics on muscle and strength gains, the benefits of eccentric isometrics, factors that might inhibit your progress, and that Joel is the most interesting man on the planet.
Re-Kindling the Passion - Lessons from a World Champion
Our guest for this episode is Damian Lees. Damian is a Personal Trainer, Online Prep Coach, and WNBF Pro Natural Bodybuilder. He placed second at the world championships. In the interview, we go in-depth on how you can apply the principles and strategies he’s learned, from years as a top-level competitive natural bodybuilder to your own training. These tips will help you to maximize your results.
We discuss the mistakes he’s made in the past, how to balance family, work, and social life with elite performance, what holds people back from making the progress they are capable of, kitting out a home gym and much, much more!
How to Become Ruthlessly Efficient in the Gym
Our guest for this episode is Michael Goulden. Michael is a personal trainer and he founded his training facility, Integra way back in 1997. Since then he has been integrating exercise mechanics with neuromuscular preparation to create a uniquely sustainable approach to health, fitness, and performance. On top of this, he has gone on to become one of the leading fitness educators in the UK.
In this episode, we take a deep dive into all things exercise mechanics. Within the conversation we discuss:
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These "Baby" Bodybuilders Will Have You in Tears
http://bit.ly/2Qil58w Muscle & Fitness and FLEX have long been known for putting the spotlight on some of the biggest guys around. Professional bodybuilders, WWE Superstars, and action movie mainstays alike have graced covers and appeared on training pages, and all adds up to a lot of muscle. Many, if not most, of those stars can look pretty intimidating as they stare you down from the pages of a magazine, but Snapchat's "baby face" filter changes that. Spoiler alert: it's absolutely hilarious. With their bulging muscles, intense expressions, and spot-on posing, bodybuilders make for unlikely, yet perfect baby face transformations. The filter smooths and plumps their faces, but their anatomy chart muscles stay the same. Armed with open Snapchat apps set to the trendy filter, we did some flipping through the pages of M & F and FLEX to find some of the biggest actors, bodybuilders, and celebrities, and the following selection of absurdly jacked "babies" ensued. Click through each if the posts below to see them all.
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The 8-Week Summer Body Challenge
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Not quite ready to bare your almost-all in a tank top, short-shorts, or bikini? Even if you have no intention of showing more skin this summer, consider this program your wake-up call to recharge your motivation and rev up your results. We asked trainer Jen Ferruggia, a coach at Renegade Fitness in California and creator of bikinibodyworkouts.com, for a program that will help you get stronger, leaner, and more energized—without having to spend all your precious summer days at the gym. “These workouts are a time-efficient way to help you increase your lean muscle while shedding fat,” says Ferruggia. Her routines emphasize non-competing, antagonistic alternating superset exercises. That means primarily doing a set of a lower-body exercise, followed by a set of an upper-body exercise, with only a brief rest interval between them. “Supersetting lower-body exercises with upper-body exercises elicits a higher growth-hormone response,” she explains. “That’s not only better for fat loss, it also has a better conditioning effect, so you don’t need to do a lot of extra cardio.” Clean up your diet, too (see our 30-Day Summer Body Diet Challenge), and you can expect to see up to 2lbs of fat loss per week, along with increased muscle definition and strength gains, says Ferruggia. Now that’s body confidence worth revealing. Follow the Whole30 Summer Body Challenge along with this program to refresh your diet and get in your best shape ever. And don't be intimidated by the thought of a 30-day diet reset, there are plenty of satisfying recipes to get you through. How it worksPlan to do three days of total-body strength training, one day of HIIT, and an optional challenge session each week. Start each workout with the Dynamic Warmup, which will prime your muscles and get you ready for the heavier work ahead. Time tight? You can also layer the HIIT session or challenges onto one of the existing strength days. For strength workouts, do the superset in the order given, resting 30 seconds after each superset (exercises under the same number are performed as a superset—for example, 1A, 1B, 1C would be a superset). On days with fewer reps, increase the weight. Avoid doing strength workouts on consecutive days.
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The 10 Best Quadriceps Exercises for Beginners
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Juan Morel's Tips for a Bigger Back | #FlexFriday
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Juan Morel, winner of the 2019 New York Pro, shows you strategies to help you craft a bigger, stronger back.
Juan Morel (@juandieselmorel), winner of the 2019 New York Pro in open bodybuilding, shows you how to use the right machines, rep counts, and superset strategies to help you craft a bigger, stronger back. So ditch your bad habits and get some tips from a world-class Olympia competitor.
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10 Things You Need to Know About All Elite Wrestling
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Three-Time Bikini Olympia Champ Ashley Kaltwasser Crushed the Navy Fitness Test
http://bit.ly/2VJQT7z Ashley Kaltwasser has proven herself in the IFBB Pro League time and again, winning three Bikini Olympias in 2013, 2014, and 2015. After a fourth-place finish at the 2016 Olympia, Kaltwasser took a well-deserved break from the stage, but made an impressive comeback in 2018 with three pro show wins and a fifth-place finish at the 2018 Olympia. She's got bikini competitions down to a science, but the lifelong athlete took on a different sort of challenge for a YouTube video with Austen Alexander, a YouTuber, bodybuilder, and active-duty U.S. Navy sailor. Kaltwasser proved that she's just as in shape as she looks—check out her six-pack in the video—when she dominated every aspect of the test, which includes situps, pushups, and running. Check out the video below to watch her get it done. You can subscribe to Alexander's YouTube channel to keep up with his training, military-centric vlogs, and more.
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Gus Kenworthy Talks About the Upcoming AIDS/LifeCycle and Social Media Activism
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Gus Kenworthy is always in motion. For the better part of a decade, the 27-year-old has been earning a reputation as a world-class skier, winning a silver medal at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, to go along with a collection of hardware from multiple X Games and World Championships. But that’s just part of Kenworthy’s story—off the slopes, he’s finding himself becoming a true pop culture force, amassing more than 1.2 million followers on Instagram, finding his way into Hollywood with a role in the ninth season of FX’s American Horror Story, and becoming an important activist in the LGBTQ community after coming out in 2015. That’s a lifetime worth of accomplishments before he even hits 30, and Kenworthy is far from done. On June 2, he will embark upon the AIDS/LifeCycle, a 545-mile bike trek from San Francisco to Los Angeles aimed at raising money for the San Francisco AIDS Foundation and the Los Angeles LGBT Center. After deciding to join the ride in 2019, Kenworthy became the top fundraiser in the history of the AIDS/LifeCycle, bringing in more than $166,000. We spoke to Kenworthy about the ride, how he uses social media to raise awareness for LGBTQ issues, and the challenge of a weeklong bike ride. M&F: First off, can you briefly tell us about the AIDS/LifeCycle and how you got involved? You have a sizable presence on social media. How has that type of visibility helped you as you speak about issues like HIV/AIDS and LGBTQ rights? How do you train for a 545-mile ride like the AIDS/LifeCycle, and what type of nutrition plan do you have in place during it? When you're cycling for something like this, which lasts seven days, is it more physically or mentally difficult? You can donate to Kenworthy's AIDS/LifeCycle cause here.
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