As a kid and teenager, I was always very active. Sports, running, and even some step aerobics kept me healthy, slim, and happy. In college, things changed! The party life commenced, I started drinking, smoking, etc. That lifestyle stayed with me for the next 10 years. When I was 27 I started to notice the
I know that day one does not sound like success to you but if you read on, you will see why it is a success to me. Please have patience with me as I say a little about myself. 3 years ago I was very depressed and overweight (176 lbs.) The depression was part of
Without even realizing it I have discovered the ultimate way to age gracefully. Lifting weights was the farthest thing from my mind when thoughts of advancing years entered my brain. Everything I saw or read concerning aging was about wrinkles, weight gain aches, pains, low libido, mental deterioration, etc. Enough already! I originally began weightlifting
When I was 7 years old, my father died, destroying my whole world. From that moment on, I started to gain weight. When I was fifteen, I developed an eating disorder (bulimia) to try to deal with my weight gain and succeeded in exacerbating the problem enormously. For the next twenty years, my weight went
I started going to the gym when my younger son was 5 and although I gained muscle, I always struggled with losing the extra weight that I had kept after his birth. In 2003 my husbands company moved our family from Atlanta to Houston. I decided that this move was the perfect opportunity to make
I have always enjoyed working out and made fitness a part of my life. While I was going through college and law school, the gym was where I went with my friends to burn off stress and clear my head. However, I never had a lot of definition and always wanted more muscle tone. After
We’ve seen a lot of threads in our forums about weightlifting and weight gain lately and we thought it might be a good idea for a little common sense talk about weight gain myths. First, it is nearly impossible for even a young adult male to add 5 lbs of muscles doing a weight training
