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This blog is primarily concerned with health, fitness, diet, personal training, and human performance. Not unrelated to health is the environment where you live and the opportunities presented.

From this Reader’s Digest article, The Importance of Strength Training these bullets:

Strong muscles help you lose weight
Strong muscles are healthy for your heart

Take two people who can just barely lift 100 for one repetition. Now lighten the weight to 80 pounds and see how many reps each person gets. You might find that there will be a wide range of variability. One person might get eight reps, while the other will get 12. Why is that?

I don't know what category to put this one under. This workout system is called dynamic inertia - there's an oxymoron if I ever heard one. Kind of like: tight slacks, vacation Bible school, Dodge Ram, high-class hooker. I could go on and I will - plastic silverware, small crowd, dull roar, peace force, and my favorite, act naturally.

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A number often bandied about is that an additional pound of muscle will burn 50 calories a day. What about already existing muscle? Wouldn't that muscle also burn 50 calories a day too? The 50-calorie-a-day number can’t be true if one makes the assumption that the muscle tissue you all ready had before adding that pound of muscle will produce the same calorie burn - i.e.

This blog is primarily concerned with health, fitness, diet, personal training, and human performance. Not unrelated to health is the environment where you live and the opportunities presented.

I have worked in health clubs for 29 years. Some of the more egregious examples of the lack of upkeep in health clubs that I have seen:

· Mushrooms growing out of the carpet in the wet area. I was amazed by the phenomenon as much as I was disgusted.
· An infestation of worms crawling around in the steam room
· The smell of urine on the hot rocks in the sauna

From this Science Now Daily News article A Connection Between Sleep and Alzheimer's?:

“A new study has found a connection between a lack of sleep and a biomolecule thought to be important in the development of Alzheimer's disease.