Weight Lifting

Weightlifting Reduces Heart Attack & Stroke Risk By 70% – And It Doesn’t Take Much

December 3, 2018

Need some gym motivation for this week?

I get it – temperatures are dropping, days are getting shorter and it’s getting tougher and tougher to drag yourself to the gym to lift weights. But there’s good reason to keep with …

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