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From the battlefields of Homer's Iliad, where muscles first entered world literature, to the Victorian-era gymnasiums where women built strength and muscle by lifting heavy weights, to a retirement home in Boston, where a young doctor discovered that training at high intensity can produce the same relative gains for frail ninety-year-olds as for thirty-year-olds, Stronger places the science and significance of our muscles in an astonishing new light.

“The Determined Life" offers a powerful insight into practical ways and inspirational stories depicting the journey towards weight loss and personal transformation. Dive into some of the core principles needed to build mental and physical strength. Pate Muse, fitness coach, entrepreneur, speaker and founder of Determined Wellness shares his approach that allowed him to lose over two hundred and forty-five pounds and win a fitness competition.

After hearing the workout explained I thought, ‘Wait a minute. They want me to load a barbell up to 225 lbs., then bend over and lift it off the ground until I’m standing up straight? Repeatedly, as fast as I can? Using my back? The only one I have? Nope. Not doing that.’” I’m Not Doing Any of That is a fitness transformation story by an attorney who left the world of corporate law in search of a more balanced life. It chronicles his search for community and the unlikely way that he found it.

What if you could increase your chances of winning a bodybuilding competition by simply adding a supplement to your diet and fitness routine? Steroids may be the answer for many, but one must understand their consequences. This audiobook highlights those consequences in depth and includes the names of people who have unfortunately passed away from performance enhancing drug use.