No simple formula for weight-lifting success

Chicago Sun-Times | April 29, 1990| | Copyright

Q. I don't mind telling you that I am lost. I've tried to go about body building scientifically, but I find so much contradictory advice on this or that that I am not sure what to do. For example, I still am not sure whether I should lift weights five, eight or 15 times in a row. I don't know how long to wait between sets of lifts, and I don't know what amount of weight is best. Every magazine gives me a different answer. Is it a science or isn't it?

A. Sports medicine is as close to a science as any form of medicine can be. In sports medicine, you must understand that we're dealing with ...

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