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What Do the Wizard of Oz, Zeus and Climbing Mount Everest Have in Common? What do the Wizard of Oz, Zeus and climbing Mount Everest have in common? Before I reveal the answer here's a question I want you to answer first. Why did you open this article? What compelled you to read further? Did you feel you needed to know the answer?
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Boot Camps Are on the Rise

As the economy continues to sputter through the largest downturn since the Great Depression, in all aspects of life, people are looking to maximize their returns on money invested in various endeavors. Expenditures on health and fitness activities can range from a few hundred dollars for basic PT gear to thousands of dollars to outfit a modern gym. From the standpoint of both a proprietor and a student, Boot Camp fitness programs are ideal venues for providing and achieving high-level workouts at fractional prices.

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Legs!

In gyms around the world, nothing is feared or ignored more often than intense leg training. How often have you seen someone with a Herculean upper body mismatched with legs that would embarrass an ostrich? Nothing demands your attention more than a massive set of legs, but how many of us are willing to put in the effort to get them?

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Why Do Muscles Get Bigger?

We know that muscle will grow when properly trained and when proper nutrients are supplied. But what biological system is responsible for this growth stimulus? Is it one or is it all of them? Is growth caused by the forces applied to the muscles through weight training , or on a more cerebral level, is resistance exercise merely a means by which we expose, through recruitment, as many muscle fibers as possible to some other stimulus responsible for growth?

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Why Your Body Changes

Getting results doesn't happen by accident. Like most things worth doing, results happen by deliberate planning and proper execution of effort. Planning well is the result of having the right information necessary to get to the desired goal. Learn the following three key pieces of information regarding the body (anybody's body), apply them, and you'll see continued results towards your health goals

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Adding Weight Does Not Increase Your Mass

Don't get me wrong when I say that putting on weight by pumping heavy iron will not increase your muscle mass. First of all, you should know what it means by lifting heavy weights. If you think it is squatting 200 pounds, then what would you call those who lift 250 pounds or 600 pounds? The truth is that the definition of heavy weights differs from person to person.

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