Steps to Build Muscle Quickly - theses students can use

Theses students could use some help.
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Results show mixed progress on student fitness
By CHRIS GULLICK - Staff Writer
Posted: 12/05/2008 09:49:17 PM PST
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Students in Butte County seem to be gradually improving their fitness, but across the river in Glenn County, they've lost ground.
The California Department of Education released its annual Fitnessgram last week, showing this year's results of physical fitness tests taken by all public school students in fifth, seventh and ninth grades every spring. (See table on page 7A.)
Since 2005 students in Butte County have improved their fitness scores significantly. But Glenn County scores are mixed, showing slight improvements in the seventh- and ninth-grade scores, but significant decline in fifth-graders' levels of fitness.
Almost all local scores dipped below last year's, with only Butte County seventh-graders showing an improvement.

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Women Building Muscle - in boxing calsses?

For all you women out there, read this. It may interest you:

Punching their way to fitness
Women get full-body workout in boxing class
Posted By CHERYL CLOCK , STANDARD STAFF
Posted 2 days ago
At first, the bag wouldn't m ov e . N o t even an inch. She practically threw all the power she could muster from within into
that bag. And still, it didn't budge.
She was exhausted. Not a punch left in her.
That was a year ago, when 44-year-old Denise Fekete
joined the women-only boxing exercise program at the St.
Catharines Amateur Boxing Club
on Niagara Street. Fekete came out twice a week,
with her 44-year-old friend, Lisa Lamothe. She even hired an instructor to squeeze in an extra workout every Monday.
These days, when she hits the punching bag, it moves. A lot.
"It's empowering for a woman to feel they have the ability to do this," she says.
The two women are among a group of regulars who work out in the club's Boxercise program, offered every Tuesday and Thursday at 7:30 p. m.


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The changing face of fitness and muscle building training

Hey,
I thought you might like this article about the changing landscape in the fitness world.


Kim Haskett of West Lafayette just started working out. Although newly committed to the gym experience, she has noticed all the changes in fitness over the past 20 years.

"I remember when my mom used to do aerobics back in the early '80s and women weren't encouraged to lift weights, now my favorite class is Bodypump (a weight-lifting class)," the 36-year-old stay-at-home mom said.
Haskett, gym owners and others who have been around fitness agree that many changes have occurred in the past 20 years, especially the huge explosion of group exercise classes -- primarily to accommodate the influx of the non-stereotypical gym goer, either the stay-at-home mom like Haskett or the baby boomer who continues to work out.
Barry Newton, owner of Newtone Health & Fitness in Lafayette, has been in the business since 1988.
He said one of the major changes has been the variety and increase in the number of classes the gym offers each week. He offers 75 classes each week, ranging from water aerobics, to yoga to Bodypump. Whereas 20 years ago he only offered five to 10 classes each week, and they were all step aerobics.
"The reason we offer more classes is because they work ..." Newton said. "The reason they work is primarily because of the socialization -- having people work out with you."
Daryl Sieplinga, YMCA consultant, has been working for the YMCA full time since 1978....


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