The world of weightlifting is huge. Believe me, I know that there is a lot of information to take in and it is extremely difficult to learn enough even to know what you are doing. As a beginner, jumping into this gigantic pool of knowledge and information can be very discouraging and even dangerous. This [...]

Weight trainers show signs of disorder called muscle dysmorphia, study finds Body image concerns affect both male bodybuilders who use steroids and those who don’t use the muscle-building drugs, new research has found. In the study, an Arkansas researcher looked at the incidence of muscle dysmorphia among competitive bo…

Muscle mass is the straw that stirs the drink in the sport of bodybuilding. Talk all you want about symmetry, shape and definition, but in the final analysis, muscle mass is the defining element of a physique. The mass building equation has three components: a correct diet strategy, hardcore training and high tech supplementa…

Thirty-six-year-old Laura Metcalf has been doing ab work for 15 years. “I do countless crunches at the gym,” says the active mom, who lives in Indianapolis. “But when a trainer recommended I try a full sit-up, I couldn’t believe how hard it was to do just one,” says Metcalf, who now vows to do a …

Here’s a sign of the times: You can actually hire people to come to your house and organize your closets. They’ll also do your garage, your attic, and the shed in your backyard. These people are tough on pack rats. They ask questions like “Why do you have this box of dog leashes, but no [...]