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your health matters FORM & FUNCTION Turn More Heads By Turning Up the Heat On Your Triceps By Madelyn Fairbanks Location: Gold’s Gym, Broadway Attract more attention by spending some extra time on your triceps. Take your time with these guys. For ultimate toning, start your workout with heavy weight, and ﬁnish with lighter weight and higher reps. Throw these extra tips into your tricep workout and keep pushing ’till they’re popping out a few weeks later! TIP 1: TRICEP PUSH-UPS Start out with a heavy weight—yours. These also targets your shoulders and abs. Bonus! • Start in plank position, with your palms on the ﬂoor directly below your shoulders • Tighten your core • Lower yourself, bending your elbows back, keeping your arms close to your body • Return to starting position, and repeat TIP 2: TRICEP DIPS Slow down your dips—way down. That guy who’s doing a million reps of anything at super speed is missing out on some major muscle building. • Place your hands behind your hips on a work-out bench • Keep your elbows straight back with your arms close to your body • Lower yourself toward the ﬂoor, moving slowly • Return to starting position, and repeat TIP 3: CABLE PRESS Avoid having a number of reps in mind, just repeat until you are physically incapable of doing any more reps. Isolating your triceps can be difﬁcult. Choose a simple exercise to ﬁnish your triceps workout, where it’s easy to ensure good form, like a tricep cable press. Since it’s your last exercise, pick a light weight, and go all in for reps. The light weight and high reps will give you major tone and deﬁnition. • Use a double rope, grasping one end in each hand • Starting position will make a perfect 90-degree angle in your arms • Finish with arms straight, rope pulled apart, and triceps squeezed • Slowly return to starting position, and repeat Madelyn Fairbanks trains and teaches group exercise in Seattle and owns Mad Abs Fitness. Look her up on the Web at www.MadAbsFitness.com. 26 celebrating seattle’s gay community http://www.seattlehomesontherun.com http://www.MadAbsFitness.com

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'MO Seattle - June 2008 Contents Letter From The Editor Voices Instant Activist Pet Project: Do You Dream About Your Pet? ’mo-BIZ: Anne Levison, Co-owner of the Seattle Storm Legally Speaking: Real Estate Buying Basics The Things We Do: Getting “Out”doors this Summer Seattle Pride Events Calendar ’mo Magazine Interview with Sandra Bernhard Anatomy of a Myth Form & Function: Turn Up the Heat on Your Triceps Gay City: National HIV Testing Day San Francisco: If Gay Had a Headquarters Book Review: Chronicle of a Plague, Revisited by Andrew Holleran Augusten Burroughs Coming to Showtime Network Sex and the City Romances the Big Screen SceneOut: People@Places Capitol Hill Guide

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