Word: strenuousness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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During one particularly strenuous stretch, a voice--half comforting, half comical--boomed out from the back of the line: "Steady...
...always enough. Aerobics Advocate Cooper, who skis and runs, most often finds his 16-year-old son Tyler sprawled before the TV set. Acknowledges High School Sophomore Monette Powell, 16, of Woodland, Calif.: "A lot of students don't like to exercise because it's too strenuous. They don't have the energy...
Programs like the one David is in are beginning to demonstrate gains, but many more of them will be needed if the nation's youth is to lose its flaccid profile. Meanwhile, health experts read with awe and admiration about China and West Germany, where strenuous exercise programs for children are the norm. American lassitude is proving difficult to overcome. "It isn't like being in the locker room with 45 players and you go through that door and get immediate results," says George Allen, after five years of being coach to the nation. "It's very difficult to motivate...
Obsessed with extremely strenuous physical conditioning, some people have withdrawn into themselves, into a personal world of relentless physical exertion. Their problem, like that of a workaholic, is not the goal pursued, but the exclusivity and single-mindedness with which it is pursued. We have even had to create a new medical specialty, just to treat all the damage we inflict upon ourselves in our over-eager pursuit of fitness...
...investments and halt the import of South African iron and steel and Krugerrands, as proposed at a summit in the Hague three months ago. But the foreign ministers rejected the most serious proposal of all, a ban on the import of South African coal, as a result of strenuous opposition from the West German government of Chancellor Helmut Kohl. That decision effectively reduced by two-thirds the impact of measures considered at the meeting...