Weight Training: What’s the Big Deal?

This article is the source for ABC FM Life Matters Segment, The Exercise Room.

What is Weight Training?

Weight training is one form of resistance training. Weights – barbells and dumbells – are the implements that immediately come to mind for most people, but there are a multitude of different tools you can use, all of which will give you a different result.

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Eight Ways to Spot a Good Gym

The Age Executive Style section, May 13, 2016 

A friend of mine applied for a job at the parent corporation of one of the two largest commercial gym chains in Australia.

He explained when he returned from the interview that their gyms were considered a sales business, rather than a service industry. ‘Doesn’t it make more sense to hang onto the people you already have?’ he asked.  

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