| In 1937, Dr. Peter Karpovich of
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| | muscles. Lifting weights does not
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| Springfield College in Massachusetts
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| | interfere with brain function; it
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| published a ground breaking paper showing
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| | improves coordination in events that
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| that lifting weights helped men improve
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| | require strength, such as playing sports,
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| their coordination. At the time, his
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| | working as a carpenter, opening a stuck
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| paper was ridiculed by most athletes in
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| | door or beating a drum. Strength training
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| professional sports. Many of the most
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| | makes you faster. Muscles are made up of
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| famous baseball players before World War
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| | slow and fast twitch fibers. The
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| II laughed at him because they were rich,
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| | slow-twitch, red fibers are used
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| famous and the best and most adored
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| | primarily for endurance, for running long
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| athletes in the world, and they didn't
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| | distances or performing continuous work.
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| lift weights. They were afraid that
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| | The fast twitch, white fibers are used
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| lifting weights would cause them to
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| | primarily for strength and speed. The
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| develop such large muscles that they
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| | same fast-twitch fibers that are
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| wouldn't be able to control them and they
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| | strengthened by weight-lifting are used
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| would lose the fine coordination
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| | for speed, so the stronger your muscle
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| necessary to hit and throw a baseball.
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| | is, the faster you can move it.Lifting
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| They announced that lifting weights would
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| | weights will improve your performance in
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| make a ball player "musclebound".Today
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| | every sport that requires power. It can
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| violin players and watchmakers, who
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| | help you to run faster, jump higher,
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| require extraordinary coordination and
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| | throw further and lift heavier. High
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| dexterity, well beyond that needed to hit
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| | jumpers do squats with heavy weights on
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| a baseball, lift weights because they
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| | their shoulders. Javelin throwers must
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| know that there is no such condition as
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| | strengthen their arms and legs, and
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| "musclebound". Today's baseball players
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| | sprinters work to strengthen their
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| all lift weights and they are so much
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| | legs.Dr. Gabe Mirkin has been a radio
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| stronger and better athletes, that the
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| | talk show host for 25 years and
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| best baseball players in the world before
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| | practicing physician for more than 40
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| 1940 couldn't possibly even make today's
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| | years; he is board certified in four
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| baseball teams because they weren't
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| | specialties, including sports medicine.
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| strong enough.Training for strength
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| | Read or listen to hundreds of his fitness
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| improves coordination. Your brain is a
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| | and health reports at weekly newsletter
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| master switchboard that coordinates your
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| | on fitness, health, and nutrition.
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