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Wednesday, June 3, 2026

The SOBs want you weak and sickly

I promise you, and my close friends and family can attest to this: I never set out to be a contrarian per se.

For instance, I contemplate the great works of Western civilization -- art, literature, architecture, etc. -- and I genuinely love them. I do not say: contrary to all of you, these works are abysmal!

When I'm looking for a fine restaurant, I don't avoid places that get good reviews, or hurry in to places that get bad ones.

But for heaven's sake, there is so much nonsense a thinking person has to dissent from nowadays that circumstances have forced me into my current position.

It isn't just academic disciplines like economics and history, bad as those are, or the virtual assurance that the local schoolteacher is going to fill your kid's head with nonsense. It isn't just that if I want the truth about foreign policy (in both Democratic and Republican administrations) the very last person I would consult is the White House press secretary.

It's that the nonsense extends to our health, too. Michelle Obama notoriously introduced "healthy" lunches into schools, and by this she meant low-fat this and nonfat that. Reports came back immediately that the children were too hungry to learn because the food wasn't nourishing enough, as any damn fool could have told her.

We don't even need to talk about Covid, because we all know what a fiasco of misinformation that was. (But if you dissented, you were the one guilty of misinformation!)

I've gone deep on this topic, I've lived it, and I can tell you with complete confidence: the conventional wisdom on exercise is as wrong as the conventional wisdom on economics, foreign policy, medicine, and schooling your children.

Murray Rothbard defined liberty as the absence of coercion. And in the political sense, that definition is absolutely correct.

But in a more colloquial sense, we may think of it more broadly, as Harry Browne did in How I Found Freedom in an Unfree World. If you're sickly, are you really free in more than a theoretical sense? If you have to be helped on and off the toilet, are you free in any sense that means anything to you?

If we don't have strong bodies, and struggle with our health or, as we age, we have to be cared for by others, we do not have the freedom we should.

Most people who exercise regularly are not getting stronger. They are getting tired on treadmills, pushing light weights on machines designed to feel like exercise without functioning as exercise, and wondering in quiet frustration why nothing changes.

Machines are safe and simple to operate. They require no coaching, no expertise, no real instruction. They are good for the gym's liability exposure and excellent for the gym's bottom line. Meanwhile, the tool you really need -- the single most effective strength-training implement ever devised -- is sitting in the corner.

I'm no bodybuilding champ, but I'll tell you this: I'm a lot stronger than most men of my age and build, and my own kids have to scramble to keep up with me.

I started late -- I wasn't really doing it right until about 18 months ago, and wasn't doing anything at all a few years before that -- though lots of people start even later, and better late than never. I was a nerd in school. (I hate to break that to you.) I was not athletic at all. I was voted, among other things, "most intellectual."

If you're like me you've gone years -- decades, even -- saying to yourself: I should get in shape. I should take care of my body. But I don't have time, and I don't know what to do.

Well, today is your lucky day: the people in Woods World are about to get started on it together, and I'd like you to join us.

The evil bastards want us weak and sickly so we can beg for their bogus treatments, and I prefer not to give them the satisfaction. I trust you are with me.

I get it: you're busy. We're all busy. But there are some things you have to do, busy or not, and this is one of them -- both for yourself and for the children for whom you are setting an example.

And if you're going to do it, how better than via an instructor plucked right out of Woods World, and a colleague of one of my (enormous) repeat Tom Woods Show guests?

Early bird special expires soon, and then the price triples.

We all tell ourselves we'll get to this someday.

Someday is today:

https://www.tomwoods.com/strength

Tom Woods

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