Word: workout
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Swimmers put more time and more effort into their sport than almost any other team on campus. From October right through March the swim team holds workouts twice a day, including weight sessions on Nautilus every afternoon. While most sleep through the early mornings, swimmers are doing their first workout from 6:45 to 8:15 a.m., and afternoons they return for another two-to three-hour session. On an average day each swimmer does about 400 laps of a 25-yard pool in varying combinations of strokes and intervals, staring at the black line on the bottom...
Early on swimmers learn to cope with the disbelief of friends who cannot comprehend rising at 4:45 a.m. for workouts; friends who can't understand why a workouts; friends who can't understand why a workout might come before a vacation; and friends who continually ask, "Don't you ever get tired of swimming?" or "Are you going to the Olympics...
Saturday's race gave Hackett a chance to work on his second 500, the portion of his race he considers the weakest. By coming back in 4:30, after swimming a full morning workout, Harvard's distance ace demonstrated he is still King of the Hill on the Eastern Seaboard...
...show off the 125-voice chorus (65 from the church's own choir, the rest from other Harlem groups), there were several selections from Handel's Messiah, two of them featuring Tenor Seth McCoy. To give the church's five-manual, 4,000-pipe organ a workout, Organist Leonard Raver and the orchestra galloped through the finale of Saint-Saëns' Symphony...
...Stewart, who will pitch this afternoon's opener, took time out from his workout for a drink of water and some optimistic words...