0_Wizard
I exercise often and have nice muscles. I work out at the Crunch Fitness chain. They're all over America with 225 chains.
Crunch Fitness is a chain of over 225 American fitness clubs located in and around numerous major cities.
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Reduced muscle mass, strength and performance in space
There is a growing research database which suggests that skeletal muscles, particularly postural muscles of the lower limb, undergo atrophy and structural and metabolic alterations during space flight. However, the relationships between in-flight exercise, muscle changes and performance are not well understood. Efforts should be made to try to understand the current status of in-flight and post-flight exercise performance capacity and what the goals/target areas for protection are with the current in flight exercise program. From the very beginning of the U.S. human space program, serious and reasonable concern has been expressed about exposure of humans to the microgravity of space due to the potential systemic effects on terrestrially-evolved life forms that are so suitably adapted to Earth gravity.
Crunch Fitness
Crunch Fitness is a chain of over 225 American fitness clubs located in and around numerous major cities. As of March 2011, the club had 30 locations in the following metropolitan areas: Chicago, Los Angeles, Palm Beach Gardens, Miami, New York City, Portland, Sacramento, San Diego, San Francisco, Sarasota, Tampa, and Washington, D.C. At various times, the club also had locations in Atlanta and Tokyo. Crunch has extended operations to Australia in the last few years. In Syndey, there are now four Crunch gyms located at Chatswood, Parramatta, Rockdale, Liverpool and Bankstown  Crunch was founded in 1989 as a fitness studio by Doug Levine, a former stockbroker.
Strength training
Strength training is a type of physical exercise specializing in the use of resistance to induce muscular contraction which builds the strength, anaerobic endurance, and size of skeletal muscles. When properly performed, strength training can provide significant functional benefits and improvement in overall health and well-being, including increased bone, muscle, tendon, and ligament strength and toughness, improved joint function, reduced potential for injury, increased bone density, increased metabolism, increased fitness and improved cardiac function. Training commonly uses the technique of progressively increasing the force output of the muscle through incremental weight increases and uses a variety of exercises and types of to target specific muscle groups.
Bodyweight exercise
Bodyweight exercises are strength training exercises that do not require free weights or machines as the individual's own weight provides resistance against gravity. It is recognised that bodyweight exercises can enhance a range of biomotor abilities including strength, power, endurance, speed, flexibility, coordination and balance. This type of strength training has grown in popularity for both recreational and professional athletes, with a range of sports disciplines using bodyweight resistance training as part of their fitness programs. Bodyweight training utilises simple abilities such as pushing, pulling, squatting, bending, twisting and balancing.
Abdominal exercise
Abdominal exercises are those that affect the abdominal muscles (colloquially known as the stomach muscles or "abs"). Abdominal exercises are useful for building the abdominal muscles. This is useful for improving performance with certain sports, back pain, and for withstanding abdominal impacts (e.g., taking punches). According to a 2011 study, abdominal muscle exercises are known to increase the strength and endurance of the abdominal muscles. It has been highly disputed whether or not abdominal exercises have any reducing effect on abdominal fat. The aforementioned 2011 study found that abdominal exercise does not reduce abdominal fat; to achieve that, a deficit in energy expenditure and caloric intake must be created—abdominal exercises alone are not enough to reduce abdominal fat and the girth of the abdomen.
Muscle
Muscle is a soft tissue found in most animals. Muscle cells contain protein filaments of actin and myosin that slide past one another, producing a contraction that changes both the length and the shape of the cell. Muscles function to produce force and motion. They are primarily responsible for maintaining and changing posture, locomotion, as well as movement of internal organs, such as the contraction of the heart and the movement of food through the digestive system via peristalsis. Muscle tissues are derived from the mesodermal layer of embryonic germ cells in a process known as myogenesis. There are three types of muscle, skeletal or striated, cardiac, and smooth.
Westfield Plaza Bonita
Westfield Plaza Bonita, formerly Plaza Bonita and Westfield Shopping Town Plaza Bonita, is a shopping mall in National City, California, owned by the Westfield Group (now Westfield Corporation). Its anchor stores are JCPenney, AMC Theatres, Macy's, Target, Crunch Fitness (formerly Borders Group) and Nordstrom Rack  The mall opened in 1981 anchored by JCPenney, Mervyn's, Montgomery Ward, and the May Company. Westfield America, Inc., a precursor to The Westfield Group acquired the shopping center in 1994. In mid-2006, the former Wards store, which had been the location of seasonal retailers (Halloween costumers and art shows) was stripped and gutted and a new plan was announced to the public that the South end of the mall would be demolished and rebuilt.
1_Apprentice
I need to exercise more and try to get in shape.