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Bodybuilding: Healthy Habit Or Toxic Trait? Ft Paul Hynes

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Today we are talking about bodybuilding with my literal body building coach aka my fitness coach. We're going to be learning about what bodybuilding is compared to power lifting, compared to Olympic lifting. We're going to be talking about tones of fitness advice and going over some really cool research on the exact amount of strength training you should be doing in a week to optimize yourself!


What did we learn this week? 5:18


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