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The New Rules of Lifting for Women
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...
The New Rules of Lifting
Ten unique programs for fat loss, muscle gain, and strength improvement for beginners and elite lifters. Want to get more out of your workout and spend less...
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...
Paul Scott has an interesting story in the New York Times this morning about the controversial advice to draw in your abdomen during exercises in which that's a very unnatural thing to do. (I wrote about it in New Rules of Lifting.)
Although I'm not quoted in...
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Normally, I enjoy a good snowstorm. I take freakish pleasure in getting outside and shoveling the front walk and driveway, and if that doesn't feel like a complete workout, I'll tackle the back porch, as well.
But the storm that nailed us on Wednesday was...
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Yesterday I got my first copy of AARP The Magazine -- living a half-century has its privileges -- and linked to this story about why exercise is less productive as you get older.
This morning's Washington Post has an article about exactly what happens to the aging...
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For a blast from the past, you must click on this link. It's a picture from the heart of the aerobics craze, with women dressed up as after-dinner mints and feeling the burn.
The picture accompanies a really good story in the New York Times about the...
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Time to play catch-up on some of the stories I've missed.
Exercise -- even deadlier than you thought
Doctors have an intriguing explanation for how some elite endurance athletes put themselves at higher risk of heart failure:
Endurance sports may cause changes in the hearts of some athletes that...
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If I had to sum up my accumulated wisdom regarding injuries and exercise, it would be this: "Sometimes trying to work through an injury makes it worse, and sometimes it makes it better."
After reading this New York Times story about doctors who're pushing the envelope by...
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When I wrote "The Ten Most Influential Muscleheads" for T-nation a couple weeks ago, the comments were lively and, in many cases, learned.
If you have a couple days to dig through them, you'll see that one of my most disputed inclusions was Abbye "Pudgy" Stockton, the...
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