Joe Lombardo

Joe Lombardo is a lifter and writer based in Arlington, Virginia. He is currently working on a book-length manuscript on the philosophical status of the human body in the age of obesity.

3 Posts

Heavy Lifting

Natalia Mehlman Petrzela’s ‘Fit Nation’ offers a fascinating but frustratingly selective history of America’s physical fitness obsession.

Joe Lombardo

7 Mar 2023 · 10 min read

Underneath the Sun

Written 70 years ago, Sun and Steel is Mishima’s hero narrative from frail, cave-dwelling, intellectual into a master of his own body.

Joe Lombardo

27 Jun 2022 · 11 min read

Among the earliest meditations on the relationship between the body and soul are the dialogues of Socrates. Drawing from three different works—Plato’s Apology, Phaedo, and Xenophon’s Memorabilia—Socrates argues for the broad moral appeal of improving one’s body, the significance of which far exceeds the domain

Joe Lombardo

8 Jun 2022 · 9 min read

Joe Lombardo

Heavy Lifting

Underneath the Sun

An Apology of the Body