Word: weightness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...garage at his home in Southern California, he builds strength by working out on pneumatic weight machines, which precisely control the velocity of his movements to prevent damage to his joints...
...biggest changes brought about by sports science is the increased use of resistance training, which includes workouts with weights as well as sessions on machines employing everything from hydraulic cylinders to rubber bands. Such training has spread even to the more skill-oriented sports, including archery and target shooting. The reason is that scientists have learned that muscle strength produces not only power but also stamina. At the National Sculling Center on the Occoquan River in Woodbridge, Va., Igor Grinko, a former Soviet rowing coach who now trains the U.S. team, has had American Keir Pearson doing 400 pulls...
Harvard initially denied the government theright to see the information, but was forced toturn over the documents after the IRS issued anagency summons, which carries the weight of acourt subpoena...
Carbone said the Inn limits the number of guests using the MAC's facilities, which include an Olympic size pool, a weight room and volley- ball and basketball courts, to two at any giventime...
...decline was subtle: not the incendiary self-destruction of a Pryor -- no drug overdose for Eddie, not even a sex scandal -- just the makings of the sour dissolution of the elder Elvis, a star Murphy much admired. He put on weight and acted like a jerk. Cockiness shaded into arrogance. He seemed to guest-star in his own films (Harlem Nights, Another 48 HRS.), touring them with the grudging ennui of a celebrity at a Kiwanis gig somebody had booked for him. The star was now as remote as Alpha Centauri. A squadron of bodyguards kept him cocooned in satiety...