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Why You Have Tailbone Pain From Weight Lifting and How to Treat It

Lifting weights is a great way to increase your strength and build muscle mass. But you may not realize just how much stress it places on your body. One problem sometimes caused by this stress is pain ...

Are You Lifting the Right Size Dumbbell? Trainer Shares Easy Test to Tell

Lifting too heavy weight can lead to injury and too light can delay progress. Learn how to test whether you're using the ...
Los Angeles Times

Strength training may be the key to longevity. How to do it safely as you age

I started strength training about nine years ago for admittedly vain reasons. Fresh off a breakup at the time, weight training offered a welcome distraction and the prospect of a revenge body. I ...
WBAL-TV

11 Fitness shows proper weightlifting form to prevent injury, build gains

THANKS, DALENCIA. WELL, IT IS TIME FOR 11 FITNESS WITH CHARLES AND CHARLIE HARRIS. AND LOOK, WE’RE TALKING ABOUT HOW TO PREVENT INJURY. AND I’M HURTING. I’M NOT ALREADY WHOSE FAULT IT IS? WHY MY ...
The New York Times

Are Body Weight Exercises Just as Effective as Lifting?

You can get the same workout and build strength without heavy equipment. But it takes work. By Christie Aschwanden Many people believe that to build strength you either need a set of weights or a gym ...

10 years after a crushing injury, I found a world bronze medal — and myself.

What a gift it is to be able to move my body and feel what true strength feels like; persevering through adversity to find ...
Times Union

Injuries need not stop weightlifting, exercise

DEAR DR. DONOHUE: I'm hobbling along on crutches because of a right ankle sprain and a torn Achilles tendon. The tendon was surgically repaired. I'm sitting around not doing much. I have been ...

Can Weightlifting Actually Help Reduce Arthritis Pain?

Weightlifting, if done right, can help people with arthritis manage their joint pains considerably. This is how weightlifting helps- ...