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  2. Gym-power: Can harnessing human-energy cut membership fees? - AOL

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    My local gym on a weekday evening doesn't just smell like a sweatshop. It sounds like one. Dozens of people on machines, whirring and spinning and pedaling -- to judge by the activity alone, you'd ...

  3. Is the Tonal 2 home gym the best way for women over 50 to ...

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    The Tonal 2 is an in-home, all-in-one gym focused on resistance training. The device itself is like a thick mirror, with adjustable metal arms that unfold for use and then tuck away for storage.

  4. Powerhouse Gym - Wikipedia

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    Powerhouse Gym was founded in 1974 [1] by brothers William and Norman Dabish in Highland Park, Michigan. [2] The gym started out as a facility for people in the neighborhood to exercise and soon became a place for professional athletes to train.

  5. Benefits of physical activity - Wikipedia

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    In this review, we will discuss the mechanisms through which exercise promotes cardiovascular health. Regular physical exercise has several beneficial effects on overall health. While decreasing body mass and adiposity are not the primary outcomes of exercise, exercise can mediate several diseases that accompany obesity, including T2D and CVD.

  6. Power training - Wikipedia

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    These are deep breathing, which results in increased intra-abdominal pressure; and post-activation potentation, which is the enhanced activation of the nervous system and increased muscle fibre recruitment. Power training programmes may be shaped to increase the trainee's ability to apply power in general, to meet sports specific criteria, or both.

  7. Smith machine - Wikipedia

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    The Smith machine was invented by American Jack LaLanne, who rigged up a sliding apparatus in his gym in the 1950s. It was spotted by Rudy Smith, who commissioned Paul Martin to improve it. [11] [12] Smith then installed the modified model in a gym he was managing at the time, Vic Tanny's gym in Los Angeles. [13]

  8. Planet Fitness will raise its $10 membership plan for the ...

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    The Planet Fitness $10-a-month membership plan is a powerful marketing tool and a central part of its strategy. But the largest gym chain in the United States is hiking that monthly fee for the ...

  9. Coalition Provisional Authority - Wikipedia

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    The Coalition Provisional Authority (Arabic: سلطة الائتلاف المؤقتة, romanized: Sultat Alaitilaf Almuaqata; Kurdish: دەسەڵاتی کاتی هاوپەیمانی, romanized: Desteya Demkî ya Hevbendiyê, abbr. CPA) was a transitional government of Iraq established following the invasion of the country on 19 March 2003 by U.S.-led Coalition forces.