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Muscle memories: how to survive a personal trainerView quoted post on X
With nothing but bananas and a looming deadline to fortify him, our sedentary hero sets off on the latest leg of his fitness journey
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Stretched to breaking point: how to survive Reformer PilatesView quoted post on X
Involving a contraption inspired by postwar hospital beds, Reformer Pilates is an exercise regime designed to expose physical frailties. Could our fitness sceptic survive?
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CAN STUFFED ANIMAL CORPSES CURE MY FEAR OF DEATH?View quoted post on X
When my wife told me she was pregnant, I started thinking about death. More than ever, I needed to stay alive, to pay for my half of the child. Death mattered more, now that I mattered more, which meant my long-standing fear of dying had doubled overnight. I needed, my wife said, to repress that fear. And where better to deny the reality of mortality than the UK Guild of Taxidermists Annual Conference? All forms of art are an attempt to deny death: to enable the artist to live forever in another vessel. Taxidermy distils that denial to its essence by attempting to literally preserve life at its most lifelike – as if the animal is the same dead as alive, as if nothing fearsome has happened.
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observer.co.uk Hot and bothered: how to survive the communal sauna Do you find sweating in an airless wooden box relaxing? How about awkward small talk with semi-naked strangers? In the first of a new series, our fun-sceptic writer is forced to try one of the UK’s... 
