Hola, Heather - you rock! Thanks for the extra stuff on this. :-) Karen, I can tell you that I actually feel like I'm getting stronger. I would submit though that my weight training is a little different than a lot of folks. A while back (about a year or so ago) I read this article in Men's Health about muscle building. It was an article about these NASA scientists that studied muscle growth for 30 years for the space program, to address things like muscle atrophy in zero gravity, yada yada. . . .Anyhoo, the gist of the article was that their research indicated that the most efficient way to build muscle was not to do the typical weightlifting regimen (usually 3 or 4 days on, one day off, hitting opposite body parts in each lift), but instead to do a full body lift routine every other day. Their research approached the muscles in the body as one unit; when you work one body part you can't ever "isolate" it -- the whole body is involved. Once you do a hard lift, you put the whole body in a repair / growth phase for about 48 hours. If you lift the very next day it sort of puts the muscle-building back to square one. Very interesting article. I've found that by doing a full body lift every other day (and cardio probably 6 days a week) and eating high-protein/ --- On Sun, 2/28/10, Karen <laurvick@charter.
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