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You might have heard of slow strength training in recently
published articles in Newsweek, GQ, The Dallas Morning News
or The New York Times. You might have also seen a segment
on the Today Show with Katie Curic or seen on 48 Hours that
Barbara Walters and Lesley Stahl are now doing a program
based on the same principles (Power of 10). If you have
yet to hear about this do not worry, you still have time
to make the important decision to improve your health and
achieve all of your fitness goals.
One might ask, “Why strength training?” Well
the answer lies in the fact that lean muscle mass burns
more calories than one can burn during their normal “cardiovascular”
regimen. As Jim Karas wrote in his best-selling book entitled
The Business Plan for the Body, “Go to any health
club. Walk into the cardiovascular room. What do you see?
Dozens, maybe hundreds of people on treadmills, StairMasters,
etc. Notice that the vast majority of these individuals
are overweight. Many of these people spend hours each week
on one of these machines…desperate to lose weight,
and firmly believing that all this cardiovascular exercise
will burn hundreds, even thousands of calories and enable
them to achieve their goal, weight loss. Now go to the strength
training room. What do you see? The majority of individuals
doing strength training are in vastly better shape. In which
room should you spend the majority of your time?”
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