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Lifting at your local gym can be intimidating. Here’s a beginner-friendly guide to the weight room. By Alyssa Ages Alyssa Ages is a competitive strongwoman athlete and a former personal trainer, but ...

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Amber Sayer, MS, CPT, CNS, is a fitness, nutrition, health, and wellness writer and editor. She holds two masters degrees and has been a certified personal trainer and running coach for 15 years.