In a warm kitchen, a stocky black-and-white rescue crossbreed with a broad head sits on the floor holding still, gazing up, while a white man in his sixties with a grey beard, one small step back from him, holds out a flat open hand, palm up, a salt jar on the worktop behind him.

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Your trainer slides an extra five kilos onto the bar and says, “Four this time, not twelve.” You do them and put the bar down feeling strong. Nobody thinks you’ve got weaker. The weight went up, so the count came down.

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