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In The New Rules of Lifting for Women, authors Lou Schuler, Cassandra Forsythe, and Alwyn Cosgrove present a comprehensive strength, conditioning, and nutrition plan destined to...
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The Book of Muscle
The World's Most AUTHORITATIVE Guide to Building Your Body You probably know a lot about building muscle. You know which curl is the best for your biceps,...
The Testosterone Advantage Plan
Wide shoulders, narrow waist, thick chest, muscular arms and legs: today's male ideal physique is the same as that of ancient Greece. Aerobics and the Food...
The Home Workout Bible
Get bigger biceps, broad shoulders, a bigger bench press, powerful legs, cut abs . . . without ever leaving your home! The body you want, in the space...
Built For Show
No-nonsense workouts to build a lean, strong, eye-catching physique. Every young, single guy is looking for an edge, some way to get single women his age to...
Huge In A Hurry
Men's Health Huge in a Hurry will add inches to your muscles and increase your strength, with noticeable results quickly, no matter how long you've been...
Studies like this one kind of piss me off. The researchers took a bunch of overweight, sedentary people, put them on walking or jogging programs, and came to what I consider a deceptive conclusion about the results of the study.
First, the parameters and results:
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According to this, runners 50 and over suffer 25 percent less muscle and joint pain than non-runners in that same age group:
Stanford University researchers followed 866 men and women, drawing on members of a local running club and matched controls. Of the whole group, 565 were...
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I'm glad I was on vacation when the New York Times published this.
A little background: The Times does a weekly column called "Really?", in which it examines popular beliefs about health, nutrition, and fitness and tells you whether they're true or not. It's an excellent...
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If there are two stories about it, it must be a trend.
First, the New York Times notes that many personal trainers today do a lot more than hang out with their clients in gyms for 45 minutes three times a week. Specifically, check out what this...
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I'm sitting in a hotel room in Las Vegas, America's weirdest city, And, thanks to Chris Bathke, I'm reading about the weirdest development in the exercise world in recent memory: redneck yoga.
From Nicholas Rosen in the L.A. Weekly:
"Diamond" Dallas Page ... also known as DDP,...
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Here's a metaphysical question for y'all:
If a gym opens without any elliptical machines, lat-pulldown stations, or mirrors for self-adoration, will anyone hear the sound of one hand clapping?
This gym, in Albany, New York, seems to be doing fine:
Despite the non-cutting edge surroundings, the place is called...
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Today's L.A. Times has a cutting-edge exercise feature: How to act when you find yourself exercising alongside a celebrity.
It consulted an etiquette expert, who offers this advice:
"I believe they should be treated no differently from other people when it comes to basic courtesy," she says. In...
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