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Record Number of Babies Born at Hospital in 2006

Parkland Health Center set all-time records for the number of monthly and annual births in 2006 and will soon announce an expansion of its Ob Department. Parkland staff delivered 74 babies in December 2006 and 665 for 2006, both new records.

With the recent addition of Dr. Sonya Williams of Ladies First Obstetrical Services, the Hospital has four ob/gyn physicians on staff, four nurse practitioners, five pediatricians and six family practice physicians.

The Ob Department has four fully equipped birthing rooms and five semi-private rooms. This year's expansion will bring the number of private rooms to 15.

The Ob Department is family-centered, offers a home-like environment and has open visitation for friends and family. The expansion will include extra room for the father -- or other family member -- to stay with mother and baby. Medical equipment will look like regular furniture and can be tucked away when not needed.

The factor of overload:

The number one requirement for a muscle to grow is an overloading stimulus; essentially a stress the muscle has not encountered before.

The key factor to keep in mind here is that this stress does not need to come from weighted plates. It can come from your bodyweight, gravity, instability, or momentum.

If you look at many professional athletes such as gymnasts, they are incredibly strong yet many are not in the weight room every day hoisting extremely heavy weights around. They develop their strength through gymnastic-specific training such as work on the beam, rings and the floor that is essentially weight training without weights.

Therefore, if you are able to incorporate these aspects into a body-weight workout program, you will still be able to generate the strength levels that you’re looking for.A really cool product:
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Weight Training Without Weights:

Some individuals have the goal of developing strength, yet they don’t want to use weights to do so. Whether it’s because in these financially tense times they can’t afford a gym membership, they want to give their CNS a break from the heavy lifting, or they are just looking for a change of pace from their traditional workout program, these guys are on the hunt for a workout that will boost strength without the weights.

Can it be done? You bet. With a variety of body-weight and plyometric exercises available, you can create a very effective workout that’s short on time, but high on results.

Here’s what you need to know about weight training without weights.

the workout

Lower body

Jump Squats with a pause in the squat position - 3 sets of 8 reps
To perform this exercise, move down into a full squat position and then explode off the floor, jumping as high as possible. Upon landing, move back down into the squat position, stopping halfway down to pause for a count of five seconds before finishing the squat and rebounding off the ground again.

Step-ups - 3 sets of 20 reps with a 2:0:2 tempo
While step-ups are traditionally done with a barbell across the back, if you use a step that’s high enough and take the rep range higher while slowing down the tempo, you’re really going to feel this exercise.

Half-to-full stationary lunge - 2 sets of 15 reps with a 2:1:3:1 tempo
Get into the position you would use to do a single stationary lunge and then begin the movement until you are halfway through the typical lunge movement. Reverse the direction back to the starting position again, and then proceed to complete the full lunge motion to complete one set.

Single-leg rising deadlift - 2 sets of 15 reps with a 3:1:3 tempo
Begin in an upright standing position and then simultaneously begin to lift one leg off the floor behind you while bending over with the body until your leg and body are perpendicular with the standing leg (both legs remain straight). Hold for a single count before returning to the starting position and switch legs after all reps are completed.

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