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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...
The L.A. Times writes about a major new scientific study:
It probably won't snag them a Nobel Prize, but two scientists have fresh data on a weighty question that many Americans care more about than genes, stem cells or nanotechnology: What can I do about my butt?...
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My friend John Berardi has an interesting article about energy flux over at T-nation.
Energy flux, in the context of diet and exercise, is the amount of calories you take in and burn off. A higher energy flux keeps your resting metabolic rate elevated, which makes...
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Could I possibly be reading this right? If I am, it means that a new cable channel, Exercisetv, will show nothing but infomercials and thinly disguised infomercials:
Excercisetv will be the first cable channel accessible by its digital cable customers, over wireless connections and online, that will...
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Can the government encourage people to exercise more? This L.A. Times story makes a surprisingly compelling case that it might be able to:
Flushed with success from the anti-tobacco wars, they now know more about the American people -- and how to influence them. And this time,...
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My op-ed column on the virtues of shorter, harder workouts appears in today's St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Titled "Improving Your Health May Be Easier Than You Think," it questions the value of some conventional advice on exercise and fitness:
I won't pretend to understand all the reasons why...
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I hear a lot of buzz about a workout system called CrossFit, which is the sort of thing I advocate: Its high-intensity, short-duration workouts are all based on movements that are useful to your body. The opposite would be bodybuilding (a pursuit I make considerable fun...
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Is anyone surprised that about a fifth of Americans are classified as having "low" levels of cardiovascular fitness?
That's the conclusion of this study in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
You'll note, if you click through, that the link above goes to an abstract....
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