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Spend enough time at a health club or gym these days, and you're bound to overhear someone discussing core strength. The idea behind this new exercise buzz word is that the muscles surrounding your trunk--the ones that help you breathe and hold up your spine--need to be every bit as strong as your biceps or quadriceps. Indeed, says Wendell Liemohn, an exercise scientist at the University of Tennessee, "if you don't have a strong core, then moving your arms and legs won't be as efficient...
...prevailing wisdom among gym rats used to be that the best measure of core strength was how many sit-ups and push-ups they could do. That's wrong on two counts. Sit-ups and push-ups primarily work the muscles on the front side of the trunk, leaving those of the back weak and unengaged. It is also very easy to cheat at sit-ups by allowing hip muscles, and not the abdominals, to do the work. A properly executed crunch may not be as impressive as a sit-up, but the goal is to isolate and strengthen...
Chopra said after the meeting that he expects four or five houses would take advantage of the house gym grants...
...meeting last night, the council also debated a wide range of proposed constitutional amendments and put aside $13,000 for improvements to House gyms.The gym grant would provide either $1,000 or 50 percent of procurement costs—whichever is lower—for House gym equipment purchased between this January...
...more than six years but didn't see each other as often as they wanted. The solution, they decided, was to find an activity they could share that would help bring them together on a regular basis. After considering several options, including a weekly racquetball game and matching gym memberships, the two joined a karate class at a center halfway between their homes...