Muscle Building Blog

I can do this. I can do this. I can do this. I have been repeating these words to myself since my very first class this morning. I didn’t sleep enough or stretch enough yesterday and my body is feeling it today. Muscles are tight, I’m tired, and everything is a struggle. But at the first sign of resistance in lower body conditioning I starting telling myself, “I can do this.” Each time it felt too hard to keep working a muscle I repeated the thought until I made it through the set.

Eve Ensler, author of “The Vagina Monologues,” penned this extraordinary opinion piece about the Governor of California’s decision to terminate funding in the budget for battered women. From the piece: I try to imagine what the governor thinks as he draws his veto pen through 40 years of women’s struggle and work, how he sleeps knowing women across his state who are exposed to brutality will be left without escape, shelter or even a friendly voice at the end of a hotline. How he justif

When it comes to second (or third or fourth…) language acquisition, the old adage is true: if you don’t use it, you’ll lose it. Ministers and others who took Greek in seminary often struggle with maintaining their knowledge of Greek and Hebrew. What can you do? Attempts to ‘re-learn’ Greek often fail as too many other responsibilities (work, family, the house, etc…) preclude the possibility of spending weeks and months going back through a textbook. How can you keep up with your Greek? In

Tough love for fat people: Tax their food to pay for healthcare Los Angeles Times When historians look back to identify the pivotal moments in the nation's struggle against obesity, they might point to the current period as the moment when those who influenced opinion and made public policy decided it was time to take the gloves off. As evidence of this new get-tough strategy on obesity, they may well cite a study released today by the Urban Institute titled Reducing Obesity: Poli

He put on 30 pounds of muscle to ensure that he’d keep the role of Jacob Black in the “Twilight” films, but Taylor Lautner insists he’s sick of feeling like a musclehead. The 17-year-old heartthrob revealed that he can’t wait for the vampire film franchise to be over so that he can go back to being a bit smaller and quit the daily intense workouts. An insider told press, “Normally Taylor is much thinner. It’s a struggle to keep the weight on because he likes to run. He’s into martial ar