By now you’ve probably heard about the amazing performance of US Olympic Swimmer Dara Torres. She set a new Women’s 50-meter freestyle record at the Olympic trials in Omaha, Nebraska where she also qualified for 2 individual Olympic events in swimming. What has everyone so in awe is that Dara Torres is 41 years old [...]

I cringe a little now when I think back to when I first began lifting weights as a teenager in the basement of my parents’ house. For an adolescent boy, it was all about how much you could lift and getting stronger fast. The bench press of course was the ultimate lift and was how [...]