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July 12, 2002

Pump it up!!

Frequent readers (both of you) know that I love this story - Women urged to pump iron: In search of fitness, women discover new kind of strength

Perhaps the biggest misconceptions women have about weight-lifting is that they will build large, unfeminine, man-like muscles.

“The myth of women looking like men because of large muscles is really not possible genetically for women due to less muscle fiber,” explains University of Connecticut’s Dr. William Kraemer, who has studied strength training for 20 years. “It’s a fear that really isn’t founded scientifically.”

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