>        I'm getting a little hyper.  Does anyone know a good book or video
>to teach the basics of weightlifting to obsese sedentaries?  I can't wait
>until "Evolutionary Fitness" to come out before I start.  My body is
>crying out for activity.

        Karl, I have a great book on beginning weightlifting. I don't have
it here at my office but I will get you the title when I get home. It has
good illustrations on proper techniques and grips and how to tailor the type
of workout you need to the type of muscle you want. Let me give you some
good advice from someone who became addicted to the adrenaline rush you
receive from an exhausted muscle group...DON'T OVERTRAIN!!! And also never
work a sore muscle. I have basically had to give up my weightlifting regimen
to maintain my career as a musician because of an overtraining injury to my
left wrist.
Nature forms us for ourselves, not for others; to be, not to seem.

                                              -- Unknown Author --

"I swear -- by my life and my love of it -- that I will never live for the
sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine"

                                      -- Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged, 1957 --

"The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain
it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through
the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through
striving after rational knowledge."

                                                           -- Einstein --