Strength training can also be used to increase muscle strength and endurance by lifting lighter weight in a higher rep range, such as eight to 12, or 15 to 20. When looking at the effectiveness of weight-loss exercises in terms of calories burned per minute, weight training comes second to cardio.
If we look at the kind of persons most likely to be eligible -- single mothers living in poverty with children under 18 to support -- we find little difference in welfare participation by race: 74.6% of African Americans in such dire straits are on welfare, compared with 64.5% of the poor white single moms.
But the combined 103,984,701 people in these four massive states still fell about 5,646,299 short of the 109,631,000 people on welfare. In the fourth quarter of 2008, when President Obama was elected, there were 96,197,000 people living in households taking benefits from one or more federal welfare programs.