Headlock1 - A Bodybuilding Photo Blogloribraunblog home pagehttp://www.loribraunblog.com/mainblog/2010-07-14T18:12:48ZSquarespaceThe New Arms Racehttp://www.loribraunblog.com/mainblog/2010/4/6/the-new-arms-race.htmlLori Victoria Braun2010-04-06T16:45:11Z2010-04-06T16:45:11Z

 Once I get something in my head to do, it kind of gets stuck there.

From pogo sticking, Easter egg hunting, vitamin collecting and bird calls, I try to be the best at everything I do and do not stop untill I am.


Now it is armwrestling. I've been training my left side furiously and here are the results.
Do not let the feminine attire fool you, as a lefty I have quite an advantage over most bodybuilders. Beware all you wrestlers. I am a Champ.

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]]>Do not be fooled on April 1sthttp://www.loribraunblog.com/mainblog/2010/4/1/do-not-be-fooled-on-april-1st.htmlLori Victoria Braun2010-04-02T02:33:20Z2010-04-02T02:33:20ZOnly one of these is true. Answer coming later.

Very small eyelids

1. I legally changed my name to Live Very Big. LVB for short.

2. I was just voted one of the top ten hot dog judges in the state of New York. The perfect weiner should be able to be eaten in two bites.

3. The doctor told me today that my eyelids have atrophied to half normal size because I never sleep.

4. I am opening another amazon women training center on a small island in Lake Worth Florida. The coolest town on the East Coast.

5. I was just pulled out of an elevator by three firemen. I got stuck on the
6th floor for about 45 minutes. They are still here at my apartment coloring Easter eggs.

]]>Ronnie Lane: April Foolhttp://www.loribraunblog.com/mainblog/2010/3/31/ronnie-lane-april-fool.htmlLori Victoria Braun2010-04-01T03:43:18Z2010-04-01T03:43:18Z

]]>Weight Training and Gym Addictionhttp://www.loribraunblog.com/mainblog/2010/3/30/weight-training-and-gym-addiction.htmlLori Victoria Braun2010-03-30T19:27:38Z2010-03-30T19:27:38ZBy Andreas Cahling

When we think of addictions it usually has a negative connotation. How many addicts do you know? Usually taking a look in the mirror will reveal the first addict we know – ourselves. Let’s face it, most of us are addicted to various substances and things in life, some more easy to admit and acknowledge than others. Many of us become addicted to sugar at an early age and move on to becoming addicted to caffeine, nicotine and alcohol as the years go by. And if we are not addicted to substances we might get addicted to certain activities like gambling, sex, fashion or spending time with certain people.

(I am addicted to working out and wearing ridulous outfits for photo shoots. Anything for a page view.)


I always knew that I did not feel well mentally or physically without satisfying my most deeply entrenched addiction. Without getting my mostly daily fix of exercise produced, known and unknown substances cascading through my biological system, my life would appear somewhat grey and depressing with life’s minor problems growing in size to intimidating proportions.

I started exercising with weights at age 12 and never stopped. Today at age 56 I find myself with the best motivator in the world for not missing out on my brief but intense visits to the gym. I am hopelessly addicted to the wellbeing produced by Bodybuilding and Weight Training. This is an addiction probably no rehab in the world could fix and neither would I like to get rid of this, in my mind, most positive addiction. I think we tend to underestimate the addictive properties of various substances produced in our bodies during exercise. I believe that they are on par with many powerful drugs in their addictive capacity. So here we have an opportunity to turn the phenomena of human addiction into something, which has a huge potential benefit for so many people on this earth.

When I left my native Sweden for California more than 32 years ago, the whole gym and Weight Training thing was somewhat of a fringe activity with very few participants. Today, while again spending some time in Scandinavia and the country, which housed my cradle, I find gym training having more participants than any other sports activity in Sweden. Neither Ice hockey nor Soccer is pulling the numbers of the collective gym community in Sweden. Of course many of today’s ice hockey and soccer players as well as other active and formerly active athletes in every sport and age category adds to these amazing statistics as well. Everybody seems to be doing it. It is the new National Pastime. It seems to me that this is positive proof of the extremely addictive qualities of Weight Training and the other varied forms of exercising found in our modern gym and fitness environment.

andreascahling.com

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