Geoff Girvitz
@geoffgirvitz.bsky.social
Father, founder, physical culturist
I explore health through writing, behaviour design, and community-building
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I explore health through writing, behaviour design, and community-building
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Geoff Girvitz
@geoffgirvitz.bsky.social
· Sep 22
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Writing and projects by Geoff Girvitz
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Personal site is up – along with an archive of my published writing – and a pretty good URL, if I do say so myself.
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Stretching isn’t the only way to increase range of motion
New piece for @theglobeandmail.com that includes other ways up the f̶l̶e̶x̶i̶b̶i̶l̶i̶t̶y̶ range of motion mountain
www.theglobeandmail.com/life/wellnes...
New piece for @theglobeandmail.com that includes other ways up the f̶l̶e̶x̶i̶b̶i̶l̶i̶t̶y̶ range of motion mountain
www.theglobeandmail.com/life/wellnes...
Stretching isn’t the only way to increase range of motion
Many types of resistance training can provide similar benefits, research shows
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November 11, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Stretching isn’t the only way to increase range of motion
New piece for @theglobeandmail.com that includes other ways up the f̶l̶e̶x̶i̶b̶i̶l̶i̶t̶y̶ range of motion mountain
www.theglobeandmail.com/life/wellnes...
New piece for @theglobeandmail.com that includes other ways up the f̶l̶e̶x̶i̶b̶i̶l̶i̶t̶y̶ range of motion mountain
www.theglobeandmail.com/life/wellnes...
* If you don’t like traffic congestion
* If you like quieter, safer cities and cleaner air
* If you wish that physical movement were easier to integrate into daily life
* If you would like to see more local businesses thriving
Bikes – and the infrastructure for them – do this.
* If you like quieter, safer cities and cleaner air
* If you wish that physical movement were easier to integrate into daily life
* If you would like to see more local businesses thriving
Bikes – and the infrastructure for them – do this.
This is another gross jurisdictional overreach from a government that feels no shame peddling false statements.
Doug Ford’s Toronto is a shortcut for cars to drive through unimpeded, not a city of vibrant communities where people live and thrive.
Doug Ford’s Toronto is a shortcut for cars to drive through unimpeded, not a city of vibrant communities where people live and thrive.
October 24, 2025 at 2:44 PM
* If you don’t like traffic congestion
* If you like quieter, safer cities and cleaner air
* If you wish that physical movement were easier to integrate into daily life
* If you would like to see more local businesses thriving
Bikes – and the infrastructure for them – do this.
* If you like quieter, safer cities and cleaner air
* If you wish that physical movement were easier to integrate into daily life
* If you would like to see more local businesses thriving
Bikes – and the infrastructure for them – do this.
Another post? In this attention economy!?
October 24, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Another post? In this attention economy!?
@avansi.bsky.social paints a picture of what food affordability and quality could look like through publicly owned grocery stores.
"Instead of the President's Choice, imagine... the People's Choice"
An explainer I made with @breachmedia.ca
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPuE...
An explainer I made with @breachmedia.ca
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPuE...
Why Canada needs public grocery stores
YouTube video by The Breach
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October 12, 2025 at 3:34 PM
@avansi.bsky.social paints a picture of what food affordability and quality could look like through publicly owned grocery stores.
If I say "Rasputin dancing to Bony M" or "Saturday Night Fever from Measles," you get the idea. Your first mental pass is as good or better than an AI-generated video. Better, probably. And it won't burn as much electricity as a microwave running for an hour.
theconversation.com/openais-newl...
theconversation.com/openais-newl...
OpenAI’s newly launched Sora 2 makes AI’s environmental impact impossible to ignore
As AI shifts from text to video, its appetite for power and water soars, presenting a climate-policy issue.
theconversation.com
October 10, 2025 at 9:06 PM
If I say "Rasputin dancing to Bony M" or "Saturday Night Fever from Measles," you get the idea. Your first mental pass is as good or better than an AI-generated video. Better, probably. And it won't burn as much electricity as a microwave running for an hour.
theconversation.com/openais-newl...
theconversation.com/openais-newl...
If cigarettes have to display health warnings, car commercials could, at a minimum, show people driving through congestion and/or making it impossible for kids to bike to school.
October 3, 2025 at 11:45 AM
If cigarettes have to display health warnings, car commercials could, at a minimum, show people driving through congestion and/or making it impossible for kids to bike to school.
Today on Dad Strength
A band pull-apart tip
The burden of carrying things silently
High protein diets vs strength training for muscle
A book, a quote, and a dad joke
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A band pull-apart tip
The burden of carrying things silently
High protein diets vs strength training for muscle
A book, a quote, and a dad joke
dadstrength.com/archive/high...
October 2, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Today on Dad Strength
A band pull-apart tip
The burden of carrying things silently
High protein diets vs strength training for muscle
A book, a quote, and a dad joke
dadstrength.com/archive/high...
A band pull-apart tip
The burden of carrying things silently
High protein diets vs strength training for muscle
A book, a quote, and a dad joke
dadstrength.com/archive/high...
Whenever the current U.S. administration makes a statement about public health, my questions aren’t about where they got their science from (LOL) – but how they benefit.
From today's edition:
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From today's edition:
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We're all trying to find the guy who did this
Plus: Find your master exercise
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September 25, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Whenever the current U.S. administration makes a statement about public health, my questions aren’t about where they got their science from (LOL) – but how they benefit.
From today's edition:
newsletter.dadstrength.com/p/we-re-all-...
From today's edition:
newsletter.dadstrength.com/p/we-re-all-...
Personal site is up – along with an archive of my published writing – and a pretty good URL, if I do say so myself.
geoff.site
geoff.site
Geoff Girvitz - geoff.site
Writing and projects by Geoff Girvitz
geoff.site
September 22, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Personal site is up – along with an archive of my published writing – and a pretty good URL, if I do say so myself.
geoff.site
geoff.site
Nepal's Gen-Z revolution was a short, wild ride that ended up with the world's first democratic election taking place on Discord. I get into it in today's newsletter.
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The Gen Z revolution
Plus: How to maintain power as you age
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September 18, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Nepal's Gen-Z revolution was a short, wild ride that ended up with the world's first democratic election taking place on Discord. I get into it in today's newsletter.
newsletter.dadstrength.com/p/the-gen-z-...
newsletter.dadstrength.com/p/the-gen-z-...
September 14, 2025 at 2:37 PM
The defining element of a civilization is how it encodes wisdom and values into long-term memory. This wisdom lives as institutions, laws, and public works — the structural encoding of more wisdom than anyone can accumulate within a single lifetime.
medium.com/p/caabef640c5d
medium.com/p/caabef640c5d
Our Persistence of Memory
“The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting”
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September 14, 2025 at 12:22 PM
The defining element of a civilization is how it encodes wisdom and values into long-term memory. This wisdom lives as institutions, laws, and public works — the structural encoding of more wisdom than anyone can accumulate within a single lifetime.
medium.com/p/caabef640c5d
medium.com/p/caabef640c5d
"Chronically angry people can turn high blood pressure into a contagious disease."
In today's edition: sleep, school, and agility.
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In today's edition: sleep, school, and agility.
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Sleep science
Today on Dad Strength: Sleep science; What is school; The agility map is not the territory; A book, a quote, a dad joke
Exercise, mindset, parenting.
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September 11, 2025 at 3:15 PM
"Chronically angry people can turn high blood pressure into a contagious disease."
In today's edition: sleep, school, and agility.
newsletter.dadstrength.com/p/sleep-scie...
In today's edition: sleep, school, and agility.
newsletter.dadstrength.com/p/sleep-scie...
@dadstrength.bsky.social The em in em-dash stands for "emotional support"
September 9, 2025 at 3:10 PM
@dadstrength.bsky.social The em in em-dash stands for "emotional support"
I don't know how many science skeptics are out there but if it only takes one issue (vaccines, climate change) to count, it might be close to 40% of North Americans. Feel free to check me on this.
But it would be good for them to know that many scientists want to/are trying to repair this.
But it would be good for them to know that many scientists want to/are trying to repair this.
August 29, 2025 at 11:23 PM
I don't know how many science skeptics are out there but if it only takes one issue (vaccines, climate change) to count, it might be close to 40% of North Americans. Feel free to check me on this.
But it would be good for them to know that many scientists want to/are trying to repair this.
But it would be good for them to know that many scientists want to/are trying to repair this.
“Moving from a less walkable (25th percentile) city to a more walkable city (75th percentile) increased walking by 1,100 daily steps, on average. These changes hold across different genders, ages and body mass index values…”
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Countrywide natural experiment links built environment to physical activity - Nature
By analysing the smartphone data of 2,112,288 participants, in particular observing and comparing the activity of the same individual in two different environments, we find that increases in the walka...
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August 29, 2025 at 1:01 AM
“Moving from a less walkable (25th percentile) city to a more walkable city (75th percentile) increased walking by 1,100 daily steps, on average. These changes hold across different genders, ages and body mass index values…”
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Suggesting updating "red herring" to "red dye #3"
July 7, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Suggesting updating "red herring" to "red dye #3"
Hot off the presses
Two exercises for power, the Screen-Time Continuum, and our new informational environment
Plus some reads, a quote, and a dad joke
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Two exercises for power, the Screen-Time Continuum, and our new informational environment
Plus some reads, a quote, and a dad joke
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Power, Screentime, and the New Informational Environment
Plus: A Newtonian joke
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June 26, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Hot off the presses
Two exercises for power, the Screen-Time Continuum, and our new informational environment
Plus some reads, a quote, and a dad joke
newsletter.dadstrength.com/p/power-scre...
Two exercises for power, the Screen-Time Continuum, and our new informational environment
Plus some reads, a quote, and a dad joke
newsletter.dadstrength.com/p/power-scre...
I am delighted to share this clip from The Nature of Things' "Dad Bods" episode featuring Dad Strength.
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June 10, 2025 at 4:13 PM
I am delighted to share this clip from The Nature of Things' "Dad Bods" episode featuring Dad Strength.
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gem.cbc.ca/the-nature-o...
If you're the kind of strength nerd who will wax eloquent about the mTOR pathway BUT don't know the story of its discovery, then strap in for one of my all-time favourites:
radiolab.org/podcast/dirt...
radiolab.org/podcast/dirt...
The Dirty Drug and the Ice Cream Tub
This episode, a tale of a wonder drug that will make you wonder about way more than just drugs.
radiolab.org
June 10, 2025 at 4:03 PM
If you're the kind of strength nerd who will wax eloquent about the mTOR pathway BUT don't know the story of its discovery, then strap in for one of my all-time favourites:
radiolab.org/podcast/dirt...
radiolab.org/podcast/dirt...
I enjoy writing for AskMen. I think of the readers as a younger brother — someone who is asking sincere questions and periodically listening to terrible podcasts — and I write for that person.
www.askmen.com/fitness/work...
www.askmen.com/fitness/work...
How to Activate Your Lats for Better Back Workouts
Want to Supercharge Your Back Training & Finally Grow Your Lats? Read This
www.askmen.com
May 27, 2025 at 2:44 PM
I enjoy writing for AskMen. I think of the readers as a younger brother — someone who is asking sincere questions and periodically listening to terrible podcasts — and I write for that person.
www.askmen.com/fitness/work...
www.askmen.com/fitness/work...
New piece for @theglobeandmail.com on trying to keep the wheels on:
www.theglobeandmail.com/life/health-...
www.theglobeandmail.com/life/health-...
Can you prevent hip replacement surgery?
Geoff Girvitz wants to know how heathy his hips are and learns there isn’t a clear path toward a solution
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May 15, 2025 at 5:04 PM
New piece for @theglobeandmail.com on trying to keep the wheels on:
www.theglobeandmail.com/life/health-...
www.theglobeandmail.com/life/health-...
Reposted by Geoff Girvitz
Everyone in the past was neurotypical, which is how we got things like this single-author, eight-volume encyclopedia of ferns
May 6, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Everyone in the past was neurotypical, which is how we got things like this single-author, eight-volume encyclopedia of ferns