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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...
Is it really May? And is it really possible that I haven't posted anything here since January? I would say that time flies, but in my experience it just crawls along, and sometimes the best I can do is crawl along with it.
The past few months...
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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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Two months ago, I decided to join some friends in an adult baseball league for geezers 45 and older. This represents a huge leap of faith for me. I haven't played on any organized team, in any sport, in at least 15 years, and that was...
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I don't always answer my email promptly, a character flaw that I'd like to correct but probably won't anytime soon. However, I did answer a couple of random questions sent by readers this weekend, and thought I'd share the answers here. If this is something you'd...
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I mentioned in the previous post that, to my shame, I read very few new books this year. And I feel guilty about that, like I'm a traitor to my profession.
I'm not the only one feeling guilt. Check out this confession by David Streitfeld from last weekend's...
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For me, this holiday season was more exhausting and stressful than usual, for reasons that are ultimately positive.
I was busy with work, which is great. I love my new(ish) job at Testosterone Muscle, a magazine I admired for 10 years before I finally joined 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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