Word: cardio
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...movie--and I also gained 30 pounds. Gaining weight was actually a difficult thing for me. I'm a health nut, so it was hard. I ate eight meals a day and had four protein shakes a day and two weightgainer bars a day and I cut out cardio. It took me three months to gain it. (Afterwards I became a total vegan for six months and I lost it in a month and a half). I got four copies of Sleepy Hollow, I wached the Disney film, and I got the '77 TV movie, where Jeff Goldblum played Ichabod...
...worst cardio-fitness program in this century was that of Egypt's King Farouk. The King weighed around 300 lbs.; he looked like an immense, saturnine party balloon. Staples of the royal diet: a few tablespoons of caviar, lobster thermidor, slabs of roast lamb, a cubic meter or so of trifle, a pound of chocolate, a magnum of champagne. Workout: two or three dancers from the chorus...
...Today's cardio-spiritual activity may not be standard, but it flows from Duke research. Krucoff and Crater have already finished the first part of Mantra, a pilot study to determine, among other things, whether prayer by strangers might influence the medical outcomes of 30 patients in Krucoff's cath lab at the Durham VA hospital. The project, whose symbol is a valentine-style heart with an angel hovering near one lobe, is too small to be statistically meaningful, but the results--the outcomes of those prayed over were 50% to 100% better than those of a control group--were...
...addition to the new squash and tennis facilities, athletes from all of Harvard's 41 varsity sports can now work out in the Murr Center's first floor, state-of-the-art weight room with all new nautilus and cardio vascular machines. This is a enormous step up from the cramped weightroom across the way at the Gordon Indoor Track and Tennis Center, where varsity athletes were forced to move their work outs to when the Carey Cage was torn down two years ago. There is even an office for Strength and Conditioning Coach Dom Sardo...
...another matter, the council unanimously approved a resolution offering Cardio-Pulmonary Resuscitation and First Aid courses to undergraduates at five campus locations...