Many women of all ages, weights, heights, and backgrounds lift at Chicago Strength & Conditioning. Before we started lifting here, we were all fragile, sweet, and movie star skinny. Since […]
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I don’t do any cardio and I lost 15 pounds
“You’re doing cardio too, aren’t you?,” my doctor asked when I saw her last month. “Nope,” I say. “I just lift heavy weights. That’s all.” My doctor clearly never hears […]
I suck at sports but I want to be a great powerlifter
I have always been a mediocre athlete. Born with little body awareness and nonexistent intrinsic understanding of how to perform a new movement or task, when learning any new physical […]
Athlete Profile: Phil Beck
You will usually see Phil in the morning class but he makes his way to the evening class from time to time as well. You’re lucky if you get to […]
Getting Strong Makes You Happy
“A weak man is not as happy as that same man would be if he were strong. This reality is offensive to some people who would like the intellectual or […]