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1) Protein shakes are fine. Your liver isn’t going to fail because you drink whey protein shakes. However, it will fail if you consume six or more alcoholic drinks a day. Whey protein is cheap and very effective, and there has...
Anonymous user
- Tue Jul 10, 2007 11:16:49 PDT
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Let’s cut to the chase here. You don’t have to join a gym or fill your garage with equipment to get into better shape. Yes, I would love to sell all of you a home gym, elliptical trainer, and a set of dumbbells — but...
Anonymous user
- Tue May 29, 2007 09:13:26 PDT
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Once in a while a friend or stranger will surprise me and mention something I wrote about in a column then ask a question or make a comment challenging my fitness wisdom or foolishness. We have a friendly chat and I end with the...
Anonymous user
- Tue Apr 3, 2007 11:28:15 PDT
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Do you know someone who has been working out for a long time on a very regular basis but isn’t making any progress? No weight loss, no body composition change, no inches lost, no improvement on “firmness,” no increased...
Anonymous user
- Tue Mar 20, 2007 13:20:49 PDT
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It makes perfect sense that women would be concerned about getting bulky from lifting weights.
Unless it was a specific goal — as in bodybuilding for bodybuilding’s sake — most women I have talked with over...
Anonymous user
- Tue Jan 9, 2007 10:09:48 PST
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Have you decided what your New Year’s resolution will be this year? Haven’t you made this same resolution before?
Most of us set unrealistic goals that are too hard and expect too much, too fast. In this way, we tend to...
Posted by strollergirl
- Wed Dec 20, 2006 10:39:31 PST
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I thought it might be good to cover a few fitness basics again now that some of our new readers might have missed along the way.
These six points represent some of the questions that I am asked almost daily. I refer to them under the...
Anonymous user
- Tue Sep 5, 2006 10:22:44 PDT
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Let’s face it, no one has time to go to the gym.
I am always amused at those who complain about not having the time to go, as if they were the only people on the planet who were busy with kids, spouses, school, housework,...
Anonymous user
- Mon Aug 21, 2006 15:04:47 PDT
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Chauvinistically speaking, this article is primarily for the guys. That is not to say that I do not recognize the fact that there are women who want to build a stronger bench press as much as any man. However, this article is for the...
Anonymous user
- Wed Jul 26, 2006 12:17:45 PDT
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It’s safe to say the treadmill is still “queen of the jungle” when it comes to home fitness equipment. No doubt weights are still “king,” if you will, but the treadmill remains the most requested piece of...
Anonymous user
- Wed Jul 19, 2006 16:28:04 PDT
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I know this is supposed to be a fitness article, but when I was told that many of the readers of The Southwest Voice are women, I thought about the fact that a lot of you ladies have sons and daughters who lift weights for other sports,...
Anonymous user
- Wed Jun 28, 2006 12:21:54 PDT
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Cardio and light weights lean you up…Right?OK, by a show of hands, how many of you want to lose more body fat? Please put your hands down. Now, raise your hand again if you are doing zillions of minutes on the elliptical,...
Anonymous user
- Wed Jun 21, 2006 13:28:34 PDT
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In my last article, “What’s Your Excuse?,” I listed the top three excuses that I have encountered over the years in dealing with people and their quest for “the new you.”In this issue, I will address the...
Anonymous user
- Tue May 2, 2006 10:55:25 PDT
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When I turned 18, I had already been lifting weights for five years. My dad took me aside one day and said, “You've done the weightlifting thing now for a while, don’t you think it’s time to do something else?”...
Anonymous user
- Mon Mar 20, 2006 13:47:42 PST
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