Word: weightness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...monstrous pre-Jurassic machines. The nautilus room, at first glance, seems a more effective torture chamber than any the fictional Prince Humperdink ever dreamed up. In fact, the "life sucking torture machine" to which our hero Westley is subjected springs to mind when I think of the MAC weight room...
...some, the goal of lifting is increasing the weight one lifts until one has conquered the machine. To others, it seems, the goal is to show off one's presumed strength by strutting the length of the room wearing a huge leather support belt. Most of us fall into neither of these categories, delighted to do what we can when even the smallest amount of weight is a challenge to lift...
...goal for everyone in the weight room is one which all of us as Harvard students face on a number of levels: to win the inner struggle between finishing a set and quitting from exhaustion or weakness. In reading period, there is the struggle to keep studying instead of falling asleep or going out to enjoy (what should be) nice weather. And through the rest of the year, there is the struggle to balance schoolwork with extracurricular activities, paper assignments with formal invitations...
...know about repetition compulsion syndrome and the disastrous effects of grasping time and time again to garner the elusive. Just as in the real world, inside the weight room the way to break such an endless cycle of frustration is to hit the machines, increase literal repetitions and create a proper workout. Moreover, this newfound energy will provide invigorating freedom. Surely even Buttercup, with a few turns on the butterfly machine, could manage to escape any self-constructed dungeon...
...home, a converted horse stable, and found Weil to be energetic, engaging and quite sincere in his belief that he is helping improve America's health. Weil faithfully follows most of his own good-health gospel, says Kluger, although like many fiftysomethings, he has a hard time keeping his weight down. And he does, from time to time, violate his own prohibition against alcohol, with half a bottle of imported beer or a thimbleful of sake...