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Fit & Well
Health
Lou Mudge

A personal trainer shares the five things your gym teacher probably forgot to tell you about how to work out

Two women in a studio space looking at each other, one woman lightly touches the other’s shoulder and is holding a notepad and pen in the other hand.

The other day, I was horrified to discover that my 65-year-old mother wasn’t taking any rest between exercises at the gym.

She would power through, going straight from squats to lunges, then straight over to the dumbbell rack for her upper-body exercises. She wasn’t taking any breaks between her sets either.

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