Tanner Garrity
Tanner is the Senior Editor at InsideHook. His writing covers a wide range of verticals and topics, including wellness, longevity, mental health, environmental sustainability, urban planning, workplace trends, social issues, running and baseball.
He joined our team as an intern in 2017, after graduating from Georgetown University. In the six years since, Tanner has risen through the editorial ranks and gone on assignment for InsideHook all over the world; he's run a relay race through Death Valley, fished cod in Newfoundland, spectated surf championships at Oahu's Banzai Pipeline, sampled small-batch olive oil in The Peloponnese, and profiled Wrexham, the home of Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney's Welsh football club.
In his spare time, Tanner likes to read, longboard and watch baseball. He lives in Brooklyn.
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The Gospel of Contrast Bathing16 Aug 2024—InsideHookIn early 2020, as the pandemic was rearing its ugliest head, a Toronto couple decided to build an ice bath in their backyard. Robbie and Emily Bent set up an adjacent fire, too, and invited a few close friends into the project: Amanda Laine, Harry Taylor and Myles Farmer. Before long, the five of them started hosting dedicated sessions: dunk yourself in the frigid water, warm your bones by the flames, repeat. Word got around. “[People started] using it for free,” Robbie Bent told InsideHook....
Lifeguard Shape: Your Blueprint for the Ultimate Summer Body20 May 2024—InsideHookWelcome to the InsideHook Guide to Summer, a collection of recommendations on everything worth doing, drinking, eating, watching and otherwise enjoying between now and Labor Day. Don’t forget the sunscreen. There’s an insane scene in Baywatch — the 2017 remake, which has a 17% critic rating on Rotten Tomatoes — where Zac Efron’s trying to join the elite lifeguard force and the Rock challenges him to a series of strongman competitions. At one point, they’re both carrying two refrigerators at...
The Mighty Fellowship of Tennis Partners22 Apr 2024—InsideHookDuring the month of April, we’re publishing a series of interviews, essays, advice columns and reported features about the male friendship crisis in the U.S., a particularly troubling slice of the country’s larger loneliness epidemic. There’s no one-size-fits-all solution, so we’re breaking it down from all angles in The Male Friendship Equation. In late April, without fail, the bubble comes down at North Brooklyn’s McCarren Park. For the six months thereafter, there is tennis from dawn to...
The Globetrotting Guidebook: Our Most Memorable Runs Across the Planet4 Feb 2024—InsideHookWellness > Running A powerhouse panel of pro runners, legendary coaches and race directors share the routes they'll never forget Running has a real knack for mimicking life’s rhythms. The standard run is as familiar and formulaic as a workday commute. It has to be — only by dragging yourself dutifully out of bed and around the same block over and over again are you ever able to lock in the habit, build that base and cultivate a relationship with the sport. Things stick when you stick to...
