ONEDAY LAST SPRING, a Virginia-based trainer named Faris Khan, C.S.C.S., posted a unique kind of workout video to Instagram: He wore an elaborately embroidered Muslim prayer hat and vest while completing a set of complicated plyometric Superman pushups with claps and spins in his living room.
It was April 12, 2021, the first day of the sacred month of Ramadan. For Khan, who is better known as @BrotherFaris to more than 200,000 followers on social media, this 30-day period of devotion meant fasting from sunrise to sunset without coffee or even water. But every few days, he posted another video or story of himself doing impressive calisthenics and acrobatics to inspire his fellow Muslims to stick with
