IT’S OLD SCHOOL

When it comes to physical practice following every latest craze is definitely not the best way to achieve the results you’re after. Fitness industry suffers by creative destruction more than anything else. Don’t fall into newism. Unless you can already do what the guys below did 80 years ago you may very well train as they did. You could go all the way back to the bodyweight strength feats of ancient Greeks but they didn’t sport moustaches nor posted YouTube videos back then.

IT’S COOL

Salvador Dalí, Charlie Chaplin and Friedrich Nietzsche all had one. The silly dictators of 20th century made it rather unpopular but nothing was sacred in the 80’s so its awesomeness has been reintroduced and moustache once again enjoyed (admittedly with some ups and downs) its much deserved popularity since. It’s that one thing cooler than Magnum PI’s Ferrari and Chuck Norris’s round kick.

IT’S EDUCATED

My high school physics teacher had one and high school physics teachers are to be taken seriously. He also had a glass eye and smoked pipe. If you have any doubt about educated moustaches think about how many Nobel Prize laureates had one.

IT’S BADASS

Born in 1832 Friedrich Emmanuel Tiersch was a German orphan of poor health interested in physical practice and gymnastics to improve his bad condition. As a born German he wanted the gymnastic clubs to be open to all the nationalities but that’s not quite exactly what the other Germans of that time fancied doing. Living in Bohemia (todays Czech Republic) Friedrich changed his name to Czech Miroslav Tyrš and started his own physical movement called “Sokol” opened to everyone. Spending less time on politics they participated more eagerly in physical training. Czech Sokols later got a lot of attention in Paris for the amount of beer they drank and the number of medals they won. Meanwhile Miroslav Tyrš wrote a thesis on Schopenhauer and eventually became a professor of philosophy. It doesn’t get more badass than that. That’s like Chuck Norris badass.

Miroslav Tyrš portraited by František Ženíšek