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Ideal Body Types, Hormonal Workouts, and the Pull Up

Cherly Tiegs (Via Skwigg.)

Recent highlights from the cool girls and boys of the fitness blogosphere. It's mostly a wasteland of diet supplements and hilarious infomercial workouts out there,  but the gems are gemlike...

• Skwigg has created a priceless photo gallery showing how her "ideal body type" has evolved over the years. "In the beginning, I wanted to be magazine model skinny. I knew nothing of fitness or muscles or healthy eating; I just wanted to be thin like Cheryl Tiegs...."
• FitnessFixation, with trademark humor, takes on "hormonally appropriate" workouts: "PMS workouts....For me, these are all about lifting weights, usually heavy ones, and doing generally aggressive things like throwing things around and doing stuff that makes satisfying crashing noises..."
• Meanwhile, T-Nation, home of "Unapologetic Muscle Building Elitists," breaks down the pull-up: "Go ahead, scoff. Or cough. Or floss. Or whatever you do when you're pretty sure someone's full of shit. You know that completing a pull-up or a chin-up is as simple as getting your chin over the bar. Except that's not actually what you're supposed to do..."