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"Because important health benefits are linked to strength training, a national health objective for 2010 is to increase to 30% the proportion of adults who perform physical activities that enhance and maintain muscular strength and endurance on greater than or equal to 2 days per week. CDC analyzed 1998-2004 data from the National Health Interview Survey to determine the annual prevalence of strength training among U.S. adults by age group and race/ethnicity. This report describes the results of that analysis."

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Subject: Conscious Personal Training
0:56 - Become your own teacher and your own guide
1:11 - Practice developed while writing the book
1:50 - What could be done to enable a person to consciously train themselves
2:00 - Three step process that is a general lifestyle practice
2:24 - First step: Learn
3:46 - Second step: Move
5:10 - Third step: Energize
5:34 - Benefits will be unique depending upon how move is energized