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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...machines employing everything from hydraulic cylinders to rubber bands. Such training has spread even to the more skill-oriented sports, including archery and target shooting. The reason is that scientists have learned that muscle strength produces not only power but also stamina. At the National Sculling Center on the Occoquan River in Woodbridge, Va., Igor Grinko, a former Soviet rowing coach who now trains the U.S. team, has had American Keir Pearson doing 400 pulls on the oars with 200-lb. weights attached. "When we slack off," says Pearson, "Igor screams at us that Russian women can lift more weight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Engineering the Perfect Athlete | 8/3/1992 | See Source »

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