Word: aerobicizes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Mitigating Circumstances (Dutton; $20), by Nancy Taylor Rosenberg, needs some mitigating by an editor. Or maybe not; the prose is so purple it's golden. An aerobic love passage ends with the heroine, an assistant prosecutor named Lily Forrester, hyperventilating as follows: "Her body was screaming at her, begging her...
The team's goal for the layoff is to maintain its intensity and to refine its racing style. Whereas the first half the season is primarily devoted to aerobic training, the second half is focused exclusively on winning big titles: the Ivies, the Easterns and NCAA individuals.
It is Crystal's ability to think funny that makes him the perfect Oscar host. After Jack Palance was named Best Supporting Actor for City Slickers and broke into a he-man display of one-handed push-ups, Crystal kept a tally through the evening of Palance's imaginary aerobic...
Since muscles can perform only if they have fuel, scientists have deeply probed the role of body chemistry in generating energy. They have developed various conditioning programs to enhance the two basic types of energy production. One is the well-known aerobic system, in which muscles rely on oxygen to...
The other system is anaerobic, in which muscles use reactions that do not depend on oxygen to produce energy from carbohydrates and other chemicals stored in the muscle. Sprinters -- as well as nonathletes dashing from the shower to grab a ringing phone -- rely to a large extent on this system...