Word: workout
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...tell that to Marsha Boysaw, 37, an attorney who works out to Tae-Bo four times a week. Her abs jut out below a damp sports bra as she discloses that she lost 38 lbs. in her first six months of Blanks' vigorous workouts. Jackie Gradinger, 30, a veteran of the treadmill and step aerobics, proclaims Tae-Bo "the hardest workout I've ever done." She too is impressed by its effect on her waistline, but she adds, "I do it mostly for my mind." Lynne Devlin, 37, a preschool teacher who ordered the tapes in January, finds the mind...
...rope, pedaling a stationary bike--to get blood flowing freely to muscles. Jordan then worked through a series of stretches that engaged each of the major muscle groups, from the feet to the neck and out to the fingers, in just 10 minutes. "He stretched before and after each workout, even when he did three workouts a day," Grover says. Jordan also stretched individual muscles between sets of weight-training exercises and, of course, as part of his warm-up routine before games...
...abiding fun is in the college bull-session informality of the players' banter. Most of them are wizards of the Boston media, and they enjoy one another's wit almost as much as they enjoy cutting in with a bon mot of their own. It's an invigorating workout just to keep up with them, and Sher presides with the indulgence of a genial night watchman in the Mensa wing at Bedlam...
...rush off to one club meeting after another. Still others...clean bathrooms? These students have joined the "crew" that does no rowing. Rather, the 140 hardy souls in the Harvard dorm crew are paid to clean. Divided into 16 House teams led by fearless captains, these students get their workout scrubbing the floor next door...
...Forget about going to the gym," Sunderson says. "All you need to do for a good workout is to join the dorm crew...