Check out this little guy.  Clearly he’s been doing his resistance training to have created such magnificent biceps.  There’s lots of reasons to consider resistance (weight) training like: stronger bones, better sleep, better mood and better sex.  And of course,…

Okay, so I”m cheating a little.  But the Olympic “combined”  weightlifting score is devised by adding the heaviest “clean and jerk” weight lifted to the heaviest “snatch” weight lifted for a single contestant.  The “clean and jerk” is a weightlifting…

If you gotta watch it, you might as well get something out of it. In my work with ASDAH and on the Health At Every Size(R) approach to wellness I’ve felt it my duty to watch HBO’s newest fat panic-mongering…

I was on a panel last night at a screening of Strong, Julie Wyman’s new documentary for PBS Independent Lens.  The movie chronicles the life and career of female Olympic medal-winning weight lifter Cheryl Haworth.  In the movie, we learn…