We've got tips and techniques for coaxing out those Popeye arms — with no weights necessary. Plus:

• What's better than drinking? Drinking with friends.
• Hamilton: Is this the best version of one of their staple watches?

How to Build Your Biceps Without Weights

Cue up any prison-yard tracking shot ever, and there’s at least one millisecond afforded to some jabroni curling a loaded dumbbell, his elbow propped against the interior of a leg. For decades, inmates, lifeguards and bodybuilders alike have hammered away at so-called prison curls, which were presumed the best way to isolate and build up the bicep.

You should train your biceps smarter, and safer. Consider: heavy weights can put unnecessary strain on joints, especially when your form is sub-par or if you’re isolating muscles (a practice that takes forever and increases your risk of injury). Remember, the biceps brachii is a smaller, two-headed muscle; you’ll be better served by compound exercises that target multiple arm muscles at once.

If you learn to train your whole arm through alternative means, you’ll get the benefits of function, injury prevention and aesthetics wrapped into one Popeye-sized wing. Here, we delve into some of the techniques, tips and junk around the house that will keep your guns firing year-round.

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The Best Way to Enjoy Whiskey Is Through a Whiskey Club

BY KIRK MILLER

Whenever I speak with a distiller, bartender or brand ambassador in the whiskey world, they say a variation on the same thing: whiskey is best enjoyed with friends. It’s true (drinking alone is depressing), and the best thing about whiskey is that it can serve as a gateway to finding like-minded people who may very well have access to some fantastic rare or hard-to-find brown spirits.

I’m speaking of whiskey clubs. Now, these are different from the clubs we’ve discussed before, which are subscriptions tied to specific brands or curated by third parties. Here, we’re talking about the kind of clubs where people get together and talk all things whiskey (because we’re in the United States, and to keep my sanity, I’m going to use the “whiskey” spelling throughout, but the clubs cover spirits from around the world).

There are hundreds of these clubs across the country, ranging from professional, multi-chapter organizations to tiny local groups. Usually these groups — whether they’re big or small — offer access to barrel picks and feature appearances from master distillers and dedicated tastings from craft whiskey brands. And a few of them provide a space for whiskey enthusiasts who have been overlooked by the industry, as you’ll see here.

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Hamilton Is Offering New Versions of One of Its Best Watches

There was something in the air back in 2018.

If you’ve been a watch nerd — ahem, an enthusiast — since then, you’ll remember the seminal launch of Hamilton’s Khaki Field Mechanical. Measuring 38mm in diameter, based upon the brand’s vintage mil-spec field watches, powered by a hand-wound movement and costing less than $500, it rewrote the playbook on what a contemporary, utilitarian and affordable watch could look like. As undeniably attractive as all the nascent microbrands and their wares were, here was an enormous, well-established company — a member of the powerful Swatch Group — laying down the gauntlet. It was suddenly clear that the big brands could offer a watch at the intersection of mechanics and affordability that serious collectors could rally behind, and that was cool. Like, really cool.

The good news is that nothing much has changed with respect to the beloved “KFM,” as it’s become known in the watch space: It’s still part of Hamilton’s catalog, and it now comes in more materials, colors and iterations than you can shake a stick at.