What My Cleto Reyes Boxing Gloves Taught Me About Authenticity
For my whole childhood, I was somewhere on the spectrum between chubby and straight-up fat. The year after I finished university, I slimmed my body into the approximate shape and composition it’s in now by doing the only physical exercise I truly, consistently enjoy: punching a very heavy bag that I pretend is a person.
Boxing involves a lot of training, and almost none of it includes a punching bag. In fact, it’s widely considered the crudest of boxing exercises, disdained by