Word: workout
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...belly dancing is seen by people like Don Gold, president of StudioWorks, a Thousand Oaks, Calif., video distributor whose parent company gave the world Tae-Bo. Gold just signed a deal with belly-dance instructor Dolphina, who teaches in Los Angeles, to distribute her Goddess Workout Fitness Video series because "we think we're ahead of the curve of a new revolution." It's possible that the practice will become classic, like yoga, but there's always the danger that it could end up in the used-trend lot, discarded and rusting like step aerobics. --With reporting by Esther Chapman/Omaha...
Like Greenland, the increasingly popular superslow workout isn't quite as idyllic as its name would suggest. A session takes just 20 minutes, and only two workouts a week are expected, but this adds up to a very grueling 40 minutes. Clients cycle through six different weight machines, doing a set of four to six repetitions per exercise. but each rep takes up to 20 seconds, with no rest, so muscles quickly start to quake, and stomachs get queasy. trainers encourage short, sharp breaths in place of squirming and grimacing. "It sounds like a lamaze class with cursing," says...
...some time for his own personal enjoyment. Americans can identify with that. Even though Tony’s a lot more powerful than most of us will ever be, we’re not jealous of him because we see his vulnerable side. We see him in his workout clothes, or dealing with the groceries, or wading through his flooded basement, and we’re willing to overlook the objective, overwhelming facts that tell us he is a bad person...
...weight in fat." The investigation included not only pills but also those jiggling belts whose infomercials I'd be sorry to see go, and Get Slim Slippers, which, assuming they are poorly constructed, sound to me as if they would indeed provide a calorie-burning workout...
...order to keep his paralyzed muscles from withering, his therapists put him on an exercise bicycle known as a functional electrical stimulus (FES) system, which uses electrodes to jolt leg muscles into a pedaling motion. A session on the bike builds muscle mass and provides a good cardiovascular workout. "My heart rate goes up 40 beats per minute," Reeve says, "and in seven years, I've lost an average of only an inch and a half off my thighs, calves and arms...