I have been athletic for the great majority of my life. In high school, I participated in multiple sports and it was then that I first started strength training. After training diligently for a year or so, I was finally able to proudly place 25-pound weights on each side of the bench press. When I had successfully completed a few reps at this weight, a middle-aged bodybuilder-type man walked up to me and instructed me to lighten the amount of weight I was lifting. The reason being, he informed me, was that the point of lifting weights for girls is ...

Although Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger stated his belief that the California Supreme Court will eventually rule it to be unconstitutional, he nonetheless, gave the gays some good advice about fighting the discriminatory Prop 8 vote during a CNN interview with John King. "When I was campaigning for Proposition 11 a lot of times the press came to me and said Governor why are you doing that? It has failed five times before. Why a sixth time? I said, look,I learned the messages from lifting weights. Sometimes I try to lift the weight ten times and I failed, but the eleventh time, ...