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Article: Work out on the slow track
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- Post-Tribune (IN)
- Article date:
- June 26, 2001
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(PHOTO - Color) (Scripps Howard illustration by Jonathan Boho)
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Picture a workout so efficient you only have to do it once a week for 20 minutes, so intense your trainer advises you not to exercise the rest of the week and so effective it melts pounds and fat away while strengthening bones and heart.
Sound too good to be true?
Some skeptics say it is.
But a loyal and rapidly growing following of devotees insists that the best way to work toward a fit, healthy body is not to beat yourself up with long runs and endless reps at the gym. Rather, they say, lift weights once or twice a week, do just one set on each machine, ...