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Lift Weights, Reap Hefty Benefits

Strength training provides health benefits that aerobic workouts can't

By Matt Cantor,  Newser Staff

Posted Jan 21, 2008 7:45 PM CST

(Newser) – Pumping iron has long been known to improve strength and prevent injury, but evidence increasingly points to a wide range of other benefits, writes Judy Foreman in the Boston Globe. The findings—decreased heart disease and neck pain, improved metabolism and balance—are driving groups...   Read full story »

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