Word: regimens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Whether on the road or at home with his wife Beth, Thomas insists on two-hour workouts three times a day, an exhausting regimen he has followed for six years. Last October, he became the first American male in 46 years to win an international gymnastic event, capturing the gold medal in the floor exercise at the World Games in Strasbourg, France...
Waldrep ascribed his improvement entirely to the Soviet doctors and therapists, whom he found much more compassionate than American physicians. Said he: "You couldn't get a tear out of a doctor here even if you stuck an onion in his face." As Waldrep described it, his Leningrad regimen involved strenuous physiotherapy (weight lifting, massages, etc.), five-day-a-week sessions in a high-pressure oxygen chamber and, most controversial, daily muscle injections of a tissue-softening enzyme called hyaluronidase. The Soviet rationale for its use: it can prevent and break down scar tissue around damaged spines, thereby presumably...
...starting his third novel. The author of Saving the Queen and Stained Glass is going to Rougemont, Switzerland, and has set aside five weeks to churn out another thriller. Après-ski and pre-harpsichord practice, Buckley, 52, plans to produce 1,500 words a day. Why the regimen? "The 20th century notion that you should stare at the ceiling until the afflatus [inspiration] hits you is self-indulgent," harrumphs Buckley, who does admit to slight concern about having no plot so far. But, he adds brightly, "by January I'm confident that the ideas will come rolling...
...Revolution, or Liberation, as the Chinese prefer to call it. If, for example, a young person comes home with a wristwatch or a transistor radio that has obviously been stolen or otherwise illicitly acquired, he must not only surrender it; he must also undergo a somewhat Orwellian regimen of "self-criticism...
That year Loyola went 14-0 and won the California Interscholastic Federation League title before a crowd of 20,000 in the Los Angeles Coliseum. Woolway attributes Loyola's remarkable success to rigid training regimen. After a season that didn't end until December 19, Woolway began lifting weights in February to prepare for spring practice and continued to pump iron all summer long. And that's brawn...