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THE POWER OF HIGHER POWER TRAINING

ONE DAY LAST year, a Virginia based trainer named Faris Khan 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 push-ups 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

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