Simple workout that uses many of your muscles

The key is to start with light or even no weight on the bar and get the form right. This is a variant on traditional squats which also use more muscles than most lifts.

Video courtesy of our friends at Crossfit.

Note Sarah is clearly strong and in great shape. More healthy and attractive than a waif don't you agree?

Just because you can bench press 150 LB doesn't make you look manly!

World record holder Yelena Isinbaeva benches 150 yet no one would argue she doesn't look "female". We will see if anyone can topple her this Olympics.

Female Olympians over and over again highlight Strong is the New Sexy!

Summer Strong 2012

Here is our idea of a prototypical Strong not just thin summer lady. You can see while she is not a bodbuilder she's worked her core, arms and shoulders to add strength not simply lose fat

I'll take my 3 tumblr pics over the "models"

Seriously, how long before advertisers and the other people who pay professional models realize MEN and WOMEN find fit more attractive than skinny? I'll take the 3 images I found on Tumblr over the 3 "models" shown first any day of the week

Strong and Thin: Pulls up a great way to add strength if you are thin

Pilates for a stronger core

You won't gain the raw strength of Crossfit or the upper body definition of powerlifting, but Pilates does a great job of improving the strength of your core, allowing better performance in all other forms of strength and cardio exercise.

Paleo Diet and how it helps make you Strong vs thin

You will see us stress the Paleo diet more in the coming weeks as many of the people doing CrossFit and other strength endurance workouts find this diet critical to their success.

Here's a dialog on this subject for women http://everydaypaleo.com/2011/07/03/women-and-muscle/

"The paleolithic diet (abbreviated paleo diet or paleodiet), also popularly referred to as the caveman diet, Stone Age diet and hunter-gatherer diet, is a modern nutritional plan based on the presumed ancient diet of wild plants and animals that various hominid species habitually consumed during the Paleolithic era—a period of about 2.5 million years duration that ended around 10,000 years ago with the development of agriculture. In common usage, such terms as the "Paleolithic diet" also refer to the actual ancestral human diet" source Wikipedia