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Straining to Lift Heavy Weights Isn't Necessary to Put on Muscle, Researchers Say
By Bill Hendrick
WebMD Health News Reviewed by Laura J. Martin, MD

Aug. 13, 2010 -- Building muscle doesn’t require a lot of heavy lifting, just a lot of light weight lifting, a new study indicates.
Straining to lift very heavy weights isn’t the only way to pump up muscles, say researchers at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario. Similar results can be achieved, they say, by lifting light weights a greater number of times.
The secret is simply to pump iron until muscle fatigue sets in, says Stuart Phillips, PhD, associate professor of kinesiology at McMaster.
“Rather than grunting and straining to lift heavy weights, you can grab something much lighter but you have to lift it until you can’t lift it any more,” Phillips says in a news release.

Water Vindicated

Today all over the news are reports extolling weight loss benefits of drinking water. Still some are reluctant to admit the benefits of water on metabolism. Once considered urban myth, now it's reckoned as science only after thousands of dollars was thrown at it.
Every human tissue, fluid and cell has water as a major component. To operate well, optimal we need water.
What's a calorie? It's a unit of measure based on heating water. Yes our body literally heats water to lose weight.
Metabolism needs water.
Maybe we need thousands in research before this can make news.