Word: weightness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...purse Girard carries a crisis ID card, which lists her height, weight and blood type and declares, "The person described on this card has essential emergency duties with the Federal Government. Request full assistance and unrestricted movement be afforded the person to whom this card is issued." Her card expired June 30, 1984, but she continues to have a standby role in the doomsday scenario. During the 1980s she took part in several relocation exercises at Mount Weather, where for days on end she practiced putting out her crisis publication on an aging manual typewriter. Says Girard: "I felt like...
...while Diana pined and battled weight loss. Then around 1986 she got effective treatment for her disease and, through Fergie and Prince Andrew, consulted an astrologer. The celestial message was simple: Do something positive with your sufferings. She did and, as Campbell says, "the Royal Family's answer to Mother Teresa . . .Diana the Good was born." Always magic in public, Diana turned much of her attention to charities involving the suffering, the dying. Her work has transformed her image from a lovely clotheshorse to a unique figure: a woman who uses her glamour and power to help others...
...goal in most cases is to increase strength without adding bulk. "We're trying to make runners and jumpers, not body builders," says Dave Ash, weight-training coach at George Mason University in Fairfax, Va. One technique is to do many repetitions at low resistance, which takes longer to increase strength but vastly improves endurance. As part of her pre-Olympic regimen, Jamaican long jumper Diane Guthrie has been doing 250 leg curls every day wearing 10-lb. ankle weights. The 20-year-old Guthrie, who trained at George Mason, notes that when she slacked off onweight training, she hurt...
...different proportions of the two fiber types, and athletes tend to excel in events for which they have the best muscle endowment. Sprinters, such as track star Carl Lewis and swimmer Dana Torres, have muscles containing a large majority of fast-twitch fibers. So, surprisingly, do shot putters and weight lifters, who need not only strength but power too. "They have to move a heavy weight very quickly," explains U.S. Olympic Training Center physiologist Steve Fleck. "Weight lifters in the clean-and-jerk event can move as fast as a sprinter." Distance runners and swimmers, on the other hand, have...
...provided a fertile field for biomechanics experts, who use infrared lasers, force plates, high-speed video cameras and computers to isolate the motions and moments that make a difference. Scientists have analyzed every type of athletic movement, from a diver's twist to a runner's stride, from a weight lifter's lunge to a rower's stroke...