Pumping Iron Isn’t Just for Athletes

KARYN BRANTLEY, a personal trainer at Hawks Gym in Melbourne practices what she preaches. Today, strength training is for everyone from the teenager trying out for the football team, to the baby-boomer wanting to look and feel young again, to the senior in a nursing home.

IT IS IMPORTANT to virtually every man and woman regardless of age. Long gone are the days when strength training was only for the muscle-bound bodybuilder, power lifter, or football player.

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