Thursday 080131

KF with a new PR...he has 133% of his BWT overhead!

Wow...last day of the month!

Workout
DL
5, 3, 1, 1, 1, 1

Jerk
5, 3, 1, 1, 1, 1

Get a new max for each!

Check out the link that follows. Boston Globe's health writer Judy Foreman now promises to change her ways by lifting weights. http://www.boston.com/news/health/articles/2008/01/20/the_unsung_benefits_of_lifting_weights/
She writes there are 5 good reason for doing so:

1. The evidence for the value of strength training has grown so much that last year, the American College of Sports Medicine and the American Heart Association issued new recommendations for healthy older adults that stressed emphasized the importance of weight lifting.


2. Strength training dramatically increases muscle mass. More muscle mass is good not just because it makes you stronger but because it increases basal metabolic rate — muscle cells even at rest burn more calories than fat cells.


3. Weight training also gets results fast — it only takes resistance training twice a week for a few weeks to begin to see a significant effect, compared with three days a week with aerobics.


4. People with greater muscle strength may be less likely to develop metabolic syndrome.


5. A Danish study just published last week showed that strength training aimed at shoulder and neck muscles can diminish the chronic neck pain that many people get from working of at computers.