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James R. Lyons – Brown fat studies

Based on his clinical experience in plastic surgery, Lyons developed three central impressions: that there are different types of fat in the adult female body, including one he identified as structural brown fat; that the more brown fat a woman has, the leaner she tends to be; and that different types of fat can be [...]

Beefcake magazine – Introduction

Beefcake magazines were magazines published in North America in the 1930s to 1960s that featured photographs of attractive, muscular young men in athletic poses. While their primary market was gay men, until the 1960s, they were typically presented as being magazines dedicated to encouraging fitness and health: the models were often shown demonstrating exercises. Because [...]

Robert Marting – Biography

The son of a Navy pilot, Marting spent time as a child in Thousand Oaks, California before growing up in Colleyville, Texas, a small town in suburban Fort Worth. He first picked up a weight in grade school for various sports and martial arts. In the early days growing up in rural Texas, first utilizing [...]

DJ Casper – Introduction

DJ Casper (real name Willie Perry) Casper was born on 23rd June 1971 in Chicago, IL. and raised in the Englewood area of the city. He is known as Casper because he always wears (wore) white on stage but is also known as [http://www.v103.com/pages/casper.html] DJ Casper, Mr C – The Slide Man or simply Willie. [...]

Muscle – Exercise

Exercise is often recommended as a means of improving motor skills, fitness, muscle and bone strength, and joint function. Exercise has several effects upon muscles, connective tissue, bone, and the nerves that stimulate the muscles. One such effect is muscle hypertrophy, an increase in size. This is used in bodybuilding. Various exercises require a predominance [...]

Weight training – Types of exercises

Isotonic and plyometric exercises These terms combine the prefix “iso” (meaning “same”) with “tonic” (strength) and “plio” (more) with “metric” (distance). In “isotonic” exercises the force applied to the muscle does not change (while the length of the muscle decreases or increases) while in “plyometric” exercises the length of the muscle stretches and contracts rapidly [...]

Army Reserve Officers’ Training Corps – Course of Instruction

There are two ROTC courses of instruction administered: branch material and general military science. The far majority of ROTC programs today are general military science (many having previously been branch material). If a program is branch material, the course of instruction is designed to prepare the cadet for appointment as a commissioned officer in a [...]

Pedometer – Introduction

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pedometer or step counter is a device, in modern times usually portable and electronic or electromechanical, that counts each step a person takes by detecting the motion of the person’s hips. Because the distance of each person’s step varies, an informal calibration performed by the user is required if a standardized distance (such as in [...]

Jillian Michaels (personal trainer) – Career

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Michaels began her career in exercise because she was overweight in her early teenage years. In 2009, on the television show ”The Doctors”, Michaels screened a picture of herself when she was twelve years of age stating that she weighed and was tall, so she was overweight. When she was thirteen years old, she was [...]

Cynthia Kereluk – Introduction

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Cynthia Kereluk (born 9 January 1962) is a fitness and exercise guru from British Columbia, Canada. In 1984 she won the Miss Canada title and competed in Miss Universe 1984. From 1985 to 2000 she reached both a Canadian (WTN) and American (”Lifetime” cable network) audience through television with her exercise program, ”Everyday Workout”. She [...]









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