Apple peels contain ursolic acid which, in rat studies, increases skeletal muscle and brown fat, and decreases white fat, obesity, glucose intolerance, and fatty liver disease.

"Even if weight training increases muscle and metabolism, there is little evidence showing that it is enough to cause weight loss," said Joseph Donnelly, the director of the Energy Balance Laboratory at the University of Kansas, who has extensively reviewed studies on the link between resistance training and weight loss.

In fact, it is nearly impossible to increase muscle while cutting calories.

Additionally, a study from the Journal of Social and Clinical Pyshology by Daniel Agliata and Stacey Tantleff-Dunn found that exposure to media images of lean and muscular men increases muscle dissatisfaction, depression, anger, and anxiety in young men.

"Steroids make your hands faster in that they increase muscle in your forearms and pectorals and numerous muscle sets involved in hitting a baseball," said Dr. Charles Yesalis, professor of health and human development at Penn State.

Lageman worked on both his upper and lower body to increase overall muscle and has added wind sprints to his regimen once or twice a week to increase his stamina.

Also efficient at improving leg shape, say Drs. Skinner and Wilmore, are aerobic exercises that both reduce fat and may increase muscle.

Endurance training can increase the size of low force-producing slow twitch muscle by as much as resistance training can increase the size of high force-producing fast twitch muscle.

Your Answer: Correct Answer: Because high doses of caffeine can enhance physical performance - studies have shown it can increase muscle endurance during brief, intense exercise - NCAA athletes are not allowed to consume high doses of caffeine.

Now Shawn Bradley is gone to Dallas where, presumably, he will again find that lifting weights to increase muscle on his bony frame is simply too arduous a task.