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From Bookworm to Bikini: Week Nine

April 15, 2013 By Caroline Gick 2 Comments

By Caroline Gick Last week was all about training. This week, I want to talk about my diet. I’m at the four-week mark—in terms of time remaining until my show—and my challenge over these next thirty days will be to lean out in certain areas while not getting too hard and vascular in others. To … [Read more...]

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From Bookworm to Bikini: Week Eight

April 8, 2013 By Caroline Gick 16 Comments

By Caroline Gick CAUTION: FITNESS BUZZWORD AHEAD. Balance. We see and hear this word everywhere. Most times, people use it to talk about obtaining and maintaining it in their lives. They want a healthy combination of work, family, training, and everything else that goes into a productive week. I’d … [Read more...]

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From Bookworm to Bikini: Week Seven

April 1, 2013 By Caroline Gick 6 Comments

By Caroline Gick Last week was all about shit. I felt like shit, I looked like shit, and I didn’t want to do shit—unless we’re talking about beating the shit out of anyone who tried to motivate me with any positive, “can do” type of shit. I couldn’t even muster the energy to do that, though, so I … [Read more...]

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How to Deadlift

March 6, 2013 By Brian Carroll 7 Comments

By Brian Carroll As I said in the first installment of this series—“How to Squat”—I’m not writing these pieces with beginners in mind. It’s important to note, however, that squatting is squatting—and in this case, deadlifting is deadlifting—so the technical points I’ll be making here will apply to … [Read more...]

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THE SEXY, STRONG WOMAN: LOSE WEIGHT, GAIN MUSCLE By Julia Ladewski

January 14, 2013 By Staff 2 Comments

If you want to get stronger, you have to get bigger, right? That’s what most people believe, and it’s essentially become a set-in-stone concession among all athletes, male and female, that in order to add significant amounts of strength, we also have to pack on significant amounts of bulk and fat. … [Read more...]

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Workout (07/06/09)

July 7, 2009 By DH Kiefer 7 Comments

Monday was my first day back to the gym in a week and I wanted to blow out my legs. Really, that's my main goal for the next 12 weeks: grow huge quads. Not that my wheels are embarrassing by any means, but they lack the fullness I'm looking for. There are two ways to get big, full quads: 1) Squats … [Read more...]

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