Practice, More Than Accomplishment, Brings Happiness

Even if you never get it right, just practicing–a sport, a musical instrument, a foreign language- can have a big psychological payoff down the line, particularly if it’s something that you have chosen to do for your own enjoyment. That’s…
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Methods of Endurance Training Part 1

In Predictors of Endurance Performance, I talked a little bit about the three primary predictors of overall endurance performance which were VO2 max, functional threshold, and efficiency.  Over the next two (or possibly more depending on how verbose I am) articles, I want to look at some of the actual …
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Steroids Harm Kidney Function

Two more reasons to stay away from steroids: your kidneys. Science Daily reports on research by experts at Columbia Medical Center and Mass. General Hospital, which studied 10 bodybuilders who used steroids for many years and developed protein leakage into…
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The Truth About Vitamin Waters

Men’s Journal gets below the surface of six popular vitamin waters, all of which make health claims that are hard to believe, and in many cases, impossible to substantiate. Fruit 20 Essentials turns out to have half the vitamin B…
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Testosterone Levels Dive With Election Losses

It’s true that winning isn’t everything, but it is turning out to be considerably more than many people thought. Just watching a political candidate lose an election, it seems, can cause a man’s testosterone level to dip.The Scientific American reports…
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Running Builds Nice Butts, Naturally

Is running good for you or bad for you? The answer, the New York Times reports, can be found in a book called Born to Run, by Christopher McDougall, a runner whose literary effort explores the world of the Tarahumara…
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My Interview with Foresight Fitness on My Experiences in the Fitness Business

I had the pleasure of being interviewed by Tom Godwin of Foresight Fitness about my experiences working in the fitness industry for almost 20 years.  You know you've been in the business for a while when people are asking you to reflect on your career .
You can check it out at  http://www.foresight-fitness.co.uk/blog/2009/10/26/geralyn-coopersmith-interview/
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It’s October — Time to Save The Boobies!!!

Breast Cancer Awareness Month is now in it's 25th year!     
That means it's time to remind ourselves (and all the women we care about) of the importance of breast health.  This includes educating ourselves about breast cancer, doing all we can to prevent the disease and proper screening for early detection.
 
Education:
Unfortunately, there are many myths [...]

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Low-Carb Diet May Be Bad For Your Heart

Many readers have probably heard about the 20 alleged benefits of a low-carb diet, but Geezer suspects that fewer know about an unfortunate risk of the low-carb life that was recently revealed in a Harvard Medical School study: a low-carbohydrate….
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2 on/2 off Training Frequency for Mass Gains

Question: What do you think of a 2 on 2 off upper/lower split so you train everything evenly at every 4th day.
So Monday: upper, Tuesday: lower, Wed/Thurs: off, Fri: upper, Sat: lower, Sun/Mon: off.
It requires more freedom in scheduling, but just curious if you thought this type of consistency was …
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