How Much Lifting is Enough? How Much is Too Much?

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Where did the advice to not lift heavy weights come from?

Nearly every warning you've heard about lifting weights was written down before anybody checked it. We trace where those warnings came from, starting with a Harvard student in 1854 and ending with a curve on a graph that's being used today to argue you can lift too much.Along the ...  Show more

Is It Safe to Train When the Air Is Full of Wildfire Smoke?

Parts of the country now get a few weeks of wildfire smoke every year, and the obvious question is whether there is a point where the air is bad enough that the workout costs you more than it gives you. We went and looked. There is a real number, it comes from about 1.5 million p ...  Show more

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