Lift Like a Girl: Be More, Not Less
Would you rather listen to this article? Use the player below, download it, or use iTunes. She told me, "I finally bench pressed 95 pounds! That's been my goal for a long time and I finally hit it. But, I know it's not that impressive since there are lots of women who lift much more than that." My response: "No, what you mean is, 'I bench pressed 95 pounds and I'm proud!' It doesn't matter …
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Would you rather listen to the article? Use the player below, download it, or use iTunes. Anyone who has tried to improve their eating and workout habits knows what it feels like to become overwhelmed by the abundance of information, all the possible workout and diet options, and all the conflicting information. Sometimes food and fitness can feel annoyingly complicated. To uncomplicate …
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How the health and fitness industry is causing harm by attaching morality-based judgments to food and fitness. Would you prefer to listen to the article? Use the player below, download it, or use iTunes. An unfortunate union has formed: Health and fitness has entwined with morality. This couple has forged a bond that’s challenging to break. What does “health and fitness entwined with …
Would you rather listen to this article? Use the player below, download it, or use iTunes. One potential reason for feeling beat up after workouts is from pushing the intensiveness of the exercises too far. Done with many exercises for several consecutive workouts (or weeks of workouts), pushing each set to the near limit may lead to that “beat up” feeling. The trend I’ve noticed with some …
[Read more...] about Feeling Beat Up after Workouts? How to Use Reps in Reserve (Correctly).
Would you rather listen to this article? Use the player below, download it, or use iTunes. Getting back into a workout routine can seem more challenging than starting one for the first time. Depending on how long the break from working out was, the results you worked so hard to achieve may have diminished; the momentum you built may have vanished. Rather than having “nowhere to go but up” …
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Raw cookie dough is not something I've been tempted to eat. Nor do I like cookie-dough flavored foods like ice cream. But this Cookie Dough Dip is mighty tasty. It's especially great when you want something on the sweet side but would rather not dive face first into a box of fried donuts. Not only is this delicious, but it does provide nutritional value: it's fiber rich (from the beans, dates, …
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Would you rather listen to this article? Use the player below, download it, or use iTunes. We want others to find us attractive; we want to be desirable. We may even, perhaps, want them to be envious of our hard-earned, properly-placed curves we’ve achieved … or that we’re currently striving to achieve. Why? Why do we place value on other people’s opinions of our bodies? Why do we fear …
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Would you rather listen to this article? Use the player below, download it, or use iTunes. Whatever the reason you want to learn to lift -- lose weight, build a better-looking body, get strong, forge greater self-confidence, complement your sport, improve your health, to be able to outrun fellow Homo Sapiens should a zombie outbreak occur -- you’re in the right place. Depending on what …
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