Power Trip

Meet the Existentialist Bodybuilder

‘Powerlifting gave me the butt of my dreams. It also taught me about death.’

Michael A. Brodeur
GEN
Published in
8 min readOct 24, 2018

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Photo by Jesper Aggergaard

When you lift weights enough to look like you lift weights, people have all sorts of questions.

“How much you bench?” (As much as I can.) “What gym do you go to?” (The one that’s open when I go.) “What…

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Michael A. Brodeur
GEN
Writer for

I write about classical music for @washingtonpost and gym stuff @To_Failure. My first book, “SWOLE” is due out Fall 2022 from Beacon Press.