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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 news about my mother gets more disturbing all the time. At Thanksgiving dinner, I was told, she referred to her daughter-in-law with a vile epithet ... even though she was in that daughter-in-law's home, and the insulted person had just cooked dinner for 11 members...
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The term "alpha male" is one of those designations we hang on people without much thought of its origins or its true implications.
It's kind of like describing someone as a "Type A personality" or saying a particular behavior is "passive-aggressive." What we really mean, in the...
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I've spent big parts of my life alternately making bad decisions, and then recovering from the damage caused by those bad decisions, which is why I enjoyed reading this brief interview in today's New York Times Magazine.
The upshot: Our brains make decisions in the prefrontal...
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When we lived in Los Angeles, my wife and I put up an artificial tree each year. But each year, like a bad houseguest, the tree gathered more dust, shed more needles, and sucked more joy out of the air. That's why, when we moved here...
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Let me say up front that I've never coached a team at any level before, and don't pretend to have any particular skills or knowledge in that area. All I know is that my daughter's recreational league needed someone to coach, I volunteered, and managed to...
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I once knew a pregnant vegetarian. She was one of the most judgmental people I've ever known, a self-righteous scold who took offense at pretty much everything. Unfortunately, she was married to a friend of mine, so we had to find ways to engage in polite...
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Here's one of the stealthiest pregnancies of all time:
A woman who weighs more than 400 pounds (180 kg) said on Sunday she did not know she was pregnant until two days before giving birth this week to a healthy baby boy.
April Branum, 39, of Garden Grove,...
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