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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...
And the secret is: don't play golf.
I played yesterday for the first time since fall 2008, and I had one of my best rounds in years. I had two disaster holes -- including a 9 on a par 3 -- that kept me from breaking 100....
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Here's a sample of the new information and insight I picked up from Mike Boyle's Functional Strength Coach 3.0, the eight-DVD set that I mentioned in this post:
Mike categorizes exercises with a small variation on the original Ian King system. In addition to the well-known designations...
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The biggest news last week, judging by the reaction on Internet strength-training forums, is Mike Boyle's attack on conventional squats, particularly the part where he looks right into the camera and says, "Don't do conventional squats anymore."
Doesn't get any less ambiguous than that.
Boyle's rationale is that the...
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A year ago, my right knee was in such bad shape that I could barely run. I had to wear a knee brace for almost everything I did, including golf.
In September, Keith Scott, a physical therapist, used ART to dig the knots out of my quads...
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On a completely unrelated thread, a reader asked this question:
I, like many others, have been taught similar squatting techniques as outlined in your book. However, I was given an article recently by a personal trainer who has CHEK qualifications like Alywn. It advocates going through the...
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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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