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The following article was adapted from Men’s Health Magazine.

There are many different hand grips when bench pressing but which is the best? Recently Canadian researchers studied the effects each position had on the body. Each position has is positives and negative, use the proper technique to obtain your goals.

The GripWide, overhand: hands twice shoulder-width apart, palms facing forward. The Benefit Stresses the lower portion of the chest more than the other grips.
The GripMedium, overhand: hands just beyond shoulder-width, palms facing forward. The Benefit Places more emphasis on the triceps than a wide grip
The GripNarrow, overhand: hands shoulder-width apart, palms facing forward. The Benefit Recruits the triceps more than other grips.
The GripMedium, underhand: hands just beyond shoulder width, palms towards you. The Benefit Involves the biceps the most.
The GripWide, underhand: hands twice shoulder-width apart, palms towards you. The Benefit Works the upper portion of the chest best.

Threadless.com is having a summer sale and all of the t-shirts in their catalog are only $10! Threadless is a great community where designers submit shirt designs and the community picks which ones should be printed.

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John Schneider, aka Bo Duke, put his 1969 “General Lee” Dodge Charger on eBay recently and the bidding just ended. This is the exact car that was used in the classic “Dukes of Hazzard” and also some other productions. The bidding just ended minutes ago and the final bid was a whopping $9,900,500.00!Several days ago many people on different websites were arguing that the car wasn’t even worth its original bid of $2.3 million. If the final bid was legitimate, they were oviously wrong and this will be the second most expensive car ever auctioned behind a rare 1931 Bugatti Type 41 Royal Sports Coupe that was sold by Christie’s Auction House in 1987 for $11 million.

Wednesday was both the worth and best day for the social news website Digg.com. After a post containing the numbers to unlock the content protection system on HD DVD discs was posted to Digg.com, the staff at Digg found it in their best interest to delete the post in order to avoid being sued. As soon as the Digg community got wind that the staff was deleting these posts, the user began to create several hundred new posts containing the numbers. Normally these “useless” posts would be buried by the crowd, but due to the accumulated frustrations the user began to digg all of these stories, eventually making the entire front page of Digg have only stories about the numbers.

Yesterday, The Royal Canadian Mint launched a new addition to the Canadian coin family with the 1 million dollar coin. The coin, of course, has a face value of $1 000 000.00 CAD and is made of pure gold. The coin tops the scales at 100 kilograms, which is three times larger than its closest “rival” which was made to the honor of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra. The coin is in fact worth approximately double its face value since gold is valued at $683.30 per ounce. The coin is said to be 99.999% pure.

This coin will be produced in extremely low quantity and a U.S. precious metals distributor has ordered three and there is interest in Asia and Europe, the mint said.