Is Your Ab Workout Hurting Your Back? - Well Blog - NYTimes.com
http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/17/core-myths/?em

“There’s so much mythology out there about the core,” maintains Stuart McGill, a highly regarded professor of spine biomechanics at the University of Waterloo in Canada and a back-pain clinician who has been crusading against ab exercises that require hollowing your belly. “The idea has reached trainers and through them the public that the core means only the abs. There’s no science behind that idea.” (McGill’s website is backfitpro.com.)

portraits of women bodybuilders. simply crazy

Kottke: "If you cover up the faces with your hands, they look like men in bikini tops and if you cover up the bodies, meth addicts."

Female bodybuilders. Damn.