It may take 1-2 months before you start to realize the health benefits, flexibility, ease of movement and potentially less muscle aching and joint pain.

FORBES: Why Strength Training May Help You Live Longer

Will Europe's unions fight to preserve their privileges in inflexible national labour markets a strategy that benefits union members at the expense of non-members or will they throw their lot in with governments and employers to ease the movement of workers to where jobs are, through training and so forth?

ECONOMIST: Unions