Fitness 101: Smith Machine

When it comes to strength training, I am usually a free weight kind of gal. Then I learned to love the cable pulley machine . I was still looking to branch out a little more, so my trainer Hannah introduced me to the Smith machine . Essentially, the weight machine consists of a barbell that slides on a fixed rail, and can lock into place at the fixed points along the track. Twisting the barbell activates J-shaped hooks on the side of the bar that lock into holes on the rails. This simple loc

Heavy Lifting Workouts at Home

by Carey Pontius Staying healthy and living a healthy lifestyle is something we want to attain. However, not all of us can afford exclusive memberships at the gyms nor does our time allow us such luxury. Instead, our best option is to whip ourselves into shape right at the comfort of our own homes. By that, I don’t mean doing aerobics and stuff. We need something more potent than just doing the regular slides and stepping back. They say that if you want to be really fit and buff right at the

Great Lifting Workouts You Can Try at Home

Great Lifting Workouts You Can Try at Home Staying healthy and living a healthy lifestyle is something we want to attain. However, not all of us can afford exclusive memberships at the gyms nor does our time allow us such luxury. Instead, our best option is to whip ourselves into shape right at the comfort of our own homes. By that, I don’t mean doing aerobics and stuff. We need something more potent than just doing the regular slides and stepping back.If you really want to build yourse

How I make slides

“Wow, those are great slides!” I do hear that with some frequency. I’m not sure, myself, that the visual vocabulary I’ve settled on is all that , because I have the visual sense of a drowned rat and the graphic-design training of a three-year-old, but… that just means that if I can make pretty slides, anybody can, right? So here’s how I do it. How I currently do it, I should say; if you look at my SlideShare you can pretty clearly see my slide-design sense developing, and… it’s still deve

Yes, Jessica Terry, it’s weird to have to self-diagnose, but thyroid patients have had to do the same thing!

Jessica Terry is an 18 year old student at Washington State high school in the Bay Area who had years of problems which doctors couldn’t figure out: vomiting, diarrhea, weight loss and stomach pains. Doctors said she had irritable bowel syndrome or colitis, and said her intestinal tissue was just fine according to slides. Yet, she just knew that wasn’t correct. So she took some of her own intestinal tissue to her Biomedical Problems class, and voila…she diagnosed her own problem: granuloma