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Weight training: weightlifting workouts and exercises

Olympic lifts: increase your strength and power

Bench Press: is it a dangerous workout exercise?

Bench pressing is more likely to injure than improve performance

Using safety gear in the gym

Use the safety gear that is on quality equipment

Women's barbell military press

The barbell military press has no peer amongst other upper body shoulder exercises.

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Women's dumbbell military press

The dumbbell military press is a fine exercise for women who desire strong triceps.

The Gironda Curl

Vince Gironda aka the iron guru was an old time strength and bodybuilding coach. This curl originated in Vince Gironda's fertile mind.

The Lifting Belt

Several different lifting belts shown and explained.

The non supported dumbbell row

The non supported dumbbell row develops not only the upper back but provides a stimulus for growth in the lower back.

Bodybuilding supplements with resistance training

Supplements: why timing is all

Sports Nutrition: Increase Muscle Growth and Strength

The Perfect Recovery Drink

Research Round-Up: endurance, ergogenic drugs, hydration and vibration

endurance, ergogenic drugs, hydration and vibration

weight training systems

Weight Training Systems : Weight train your hormones

periodisation

Periodisation: Advanced strategies for bringing your performance to a peak at just the right time

sports nutrition information

Sports nutrition information: From carbo-loading to nutrigenomics: Andrew Hamilton on the evergrowing sophistication of nutritional strategies in sport

strength endurance

Strength endurance: Power without mass: how strength and plyometric training can boost endurance running performance

sports science articles

The Peak Performance index of back issues

protein

Protein: Optimum nutrition: it's about much more than simply eating the right amount

body building

Body building - Why bodybuilding dependence is not just a problem for men

ab exercise | ab curl-up

Ab exercise - The ab curl-up

Human Growth Hormone | hGH

Human growth hormone hGH - Don't waste money - and risk your reputation on human growth hormone; make your own instead!

Steroids in sports: The effects on blood pressure

Steroids - How steroids raise blood pressure

sport specific weight training

Sport specific weight training

Weight Training

Strength Training: weight lifting strategy

Are three sets necessary to optimise your strength?

Add some intensity to your weight training sessions by eccentric loading

Eccentric loading boosts weight training benefits

Creatine: school children under the age of 18 should not take bodybuilding supplements

School children risk causing long term damage by taking bodybuilding supplements

Steroids increase the risk of injury when strength training

Steroids carry injury risks

Drug abuse: steroids are linked to serious injuries of the triceps and nervous system

Steroids boost injury risk from strength training

Arginine

Arginine: In the gym, bodybuilders push heavy pieces of iron around in order to bulk up their muscles, but at their dinner tables they do strange things.. In an attempt to become leaner, they reduce their caloric intakes as they train for important competitions, even though decreased eating can lead to losses of muscle mass.

Weight training

Weight Training: In hopes of improving their raw muscle power, competitive rowers engage in weight training during the off-season, but new research suggests that they might be better off pushing on their oars instead of using weight machines or free weights.

basic weight training routines

Basic weight training routines: Beginning weightlifters don't need to worry much about their number of repetitions.

Bodybuilders: myths about nutrition

Bodybuilders: Myths About Nutrition: How do bodybuilders keep going on this diet of myths and contradictions?

Marijuana

Marijuana shown to be a gateway to steroid use in Norwegian teens

weight training vests | ankle weights

Weight training vests and ankle weights: wearing ankle weights and a weight training vests can help you run faster - but do it slowly

Dangers Of Chromium Picolinate

Dangers Of Chromium Picolinate: If you want to build muscle and lose fat, will a chromium supplement help? Here's a cool look at the facts

Benefits Of Chromium Picolinate

Benefits Of Chromium Picolinate: If you want to build muscle and lose fat, will a chromium supplement help? Here's a cool look at the facts

Dhea Danger | Dhea Benefits | Dhea

Dhea Danger And Dhea Benefits: Is DHEA really, as some suggest, the fountain of youth in a bottle?

weight training for runners

Weight Training For Runners: If you want to improve performance, the cardinal rule is: be more specific.

Weight Training Routines

Weight Training Routines: What science has to say about circuit weight training routines

Strength training exercises programme for women

Strength Training Exercises Programme For Women: Strength training is vital for women, but the programme depends on their event, not their sex.

Endurox | sport nutrition supplement

Endurox: Don't be taken in too soon by the claims of this latest " magic potion"

Achilles heel injury

Achilles Heel Injury Prevention: These exercises can turn your Achilles heel into a rock of Gibraltar

Chromium supplements

Chromium Supplements: Chromium is not all it's beefed up to be.

swimming pools medical hazards

A quick look at the medical hazards of swimming in pools.

Female cyclists | health | nutrition

Female cyclists health and nutrition: A guide to the proper care and feeding of female cyclists.

drugs | female athletes

The Gender Gap 2: Women are getting slower; men are getting faster?

sports supplements

Sports Supplements: Here's a survey of what the nutrition experts take

Bone-strengthening

Bone-strengthening: The remarkable soya bean can help guard against osteoporosis, and that's only the beginning.

Ginseng

Ginseng: Another scientific study gives the thumbs down.

HIV risk and sport

Hiv Risk And Sport: What's the real risk of HIV transmission during sports activities?

Adaptogens

Adaptogens: What exactly are " adaptogens" and can they really help your performances.

Sport by sport diet guide

Sport By Sport Diet Guide: Whatever your sport, nutrition should be an integral part of your training and competition strategy. Although the emphasis will vary according to the activity you're involved in, there is a consensus among sports scientists on guidelines that athletes should be aiming for.