Word: nautiluses
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Nautilus machines, which are now common accoutrements to most professional training rooms, impart degrees of muscle resistance which vary according to muscle movements. The stress is regulated by aluminum "cams" or gears shaped like nautilus shells. In barbell exercises, which are looked at with disdain by Nautilus aficionados, there are stages of too little resistance of "sticking points" with too much stress...
...Harvard's Nautilus room you can see football captain Steve Potysman grappling with the "Compound Leg" machine, which incidentally runs to a hefty $3,465 in the Nautilus catalogue, while next to him, Natalie Bigelow, a member of the women's basketball team, is outstretched on the DUOsymmetric POLY contractile Hip and Back machine...
...main devotees of the Nautilus are football and hockey players and members of the men's and women's swimming teams. The women's basketball team came down en masse one night to be certified in Stenson's class...
Stenson first became interested in the Nautilus when it was still a rarity in training rooms. A friend of his named Vinnie Bocchicchio opened the first Nautilus club in New York City in 1974. As president of Sports Condition Inc., Bocchicchio now owns five Nautilus parlors, which he runs on a strictly appointment only basis. Stenson began working for Bocchicchio and is now a Nautilus experty...
Supervisor Ted Gertel has an equally illustrious background in Nautilus technique. In addition to working out at a number of Nautilus clubs, he took a supervised reading course in biology entitled "The Physiology of Exercise and Sports Medicine," and a course on "Regulation of Muscle Function" at Harvard Medical School...