Devlin Brown at the water cooler: Losing weight by adding weights
Embracing weight training might just be the key to losing that weight
07 October 2019 - 05:06
Q: My personal trainer has added weights to my training, such as dumbbell rows, squats and presses. My goal is to lose fat and shape up, so how do I prevent myself from becoming too masculine, or big and bulky?
A: If becoming big and bulky were as simple as lifting weights we wouldn’t have so many sons, brothers, fathers and husbands with body dysmorphic disorder injecting themselves with anabolic steroids, swallowing toxic pro-hormones and shovelling down inhuman amounts of protein and carbohydrates...
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