Word: overexerting
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...with her strength and conditioning trainers to slowly apply more and more force on her knee to bring her leg back to pristine form.While the team would kick 1000 yards for practice, coach Morawski would only allow Mills to swim 400 yards so that she wouldn’t overexert the fragile joint.Morawski knew it was tough for such a competitive athlete to take baby steps to reach the level she wanted, but the coach felt Mills was taking the right steps in the right direction.“She never pushed it too far, she was very careful...
...frail, you have the most to gain from strength training, which is key to long-term independence. Try to target all the major muscles in your trunk, legs and upper body with either free weights or exercise machines. Use enough weight to tire yourself out, but don't overexert or strain...
Even while the heart is being asked to overexert, carbon monoxide from cigarette smoke combines with red blood cells and decreases their capacity to carry oxygen. As a result, the hard-working heart muscle is given less fuel to do its job. At the same time, tobacco's nicotine causes a constriction of small arteries in the extremities and speeds up the heart, increasing its need for oxygen and complicating the coronary problem...
Federal Reserve Chairman William McChesney Martin, who feels that the economy is suffering from indigestion or overexertion but that it is healthier now than it was three months ago, says: "Nothing can prevent our recovery going to higher levels of activity than we have heretofore except our mishandling of the patient by shooting in hypodermics, giving drugs at a point where the patient will continue to overexert himself and eventually put himself in a much worse position than he is at present...
...judgment that the present condition does not warrant such action." In that he was in tune with FRB Chairman William McChesney Martin Jr., who still regards inflation as a major danger. Added Martin: "If I'm right in thinking that this strong, robust economy is suffering from overexertion, nothing can prevent the recovery of the patient-unless you give him a hypodermic that leads him to try to overexert himself again...