Word: strengthing
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...balance might scare people away from a practice that offers far more benefits than drawbacks. Yes, yoga--like spinning and running--can be harmful if practiced incorrectly, but its history of more than 5,000 years and its millions of practitioners worldwide attest to its benefits. Besides building strength and flexibility, yoga has been shown to have a positive effect on depression, anxiety, insomnia and core physiology...
...Players compete in divisions based on age and gender. Giordano Benassi, who leads the eight-person Italian delegation, says that in this "game of strength" female participants must be protected. "For a small woman going against a big man, there would be a problem psychologically," he says...
...casino in Las Vegas were priced at $2,000.) The Ibragimov-Holyfield fight failed to live up to its lofty price tag, however, as the champ and challenger conducted a 12-round Krokus City pantomime. It was the case of a lionhearted, but aged ex-champ conserving his strength in order to go the distance against a belt-holding opponent who has benefited greatly from boxing's fall from primacy in the West. Ibragimov did not display the stuff of a real champion. This was no collision of cultures, no epic battle, no thing to be remembered...
...just as important that women be helpless and in need of rescue and grateful for rescue as it was that men be strong. The way that the American male hero was supposed to present his strength was by saving a helpless woman. If the woman could defend herself, then the drama couldn't be enacted...
...women’s side, Harvard beat second-place Middlebury by 21 points, largely on the strength of underclassmen. Led by freshman Meghan Houser, who was first overall with a time of 18:23, the whole team finished within...