Cellulose - indigestible carbohydrate; provides fiber in the diet

Free Weights - Barbells, dumbbells, and related equipment. Serious bodybuilders use a combination of free weights and such nautilus exercise machines such as the smith machine to incorporate a balanced training regime. Free weights are generally preferred, because they allow the stabilizer muscles to be used.

Hydrogenated Fats - found in processed foods and commercially baked goods, have an extra hydrogen atom added to them to make them solid at room temperature and to increase the shelf life of foods they are in. They are considered to be the most unhealthy.

Intermediate Bodybuilder - A bodybuilder with six to 12 months of bodybuilding experience.

Olympic Lifting - The type of weightlifting competition contested at the Olympic Games every four years, as well as at national and international competitions each year. Two lifts (the snatch and the clean and jerk) are contested in a wide variety of weight classes.

Power Training - System of weight training using low repetitions, heavy weights.

Repetition (rep) - The number of times you lift and lower a weight in one set of an exercise. For example, if you lift and lower a weight 10 times before set-ting the weight down, you have completed 10 "reps" in one set.

Semi-vegetarian - Not a true vegetarian diet; based primarily on plant foods but occasionally including lean, nonred meat.

Set Point Theory - belief that everyone has a natural weight ("set point") at which the body is most comfortable

Sinclair, Jon - United States road racer, major career wins at "Peachtree" and "Bloomsday".

Tendon - The tough tissue that connects muscles to bones.