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ergometer
noun
A dynamometer used to measure the work done by muscles.
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In addition, each astronaut exercised daily on a bicycle ergometer.
One day, when Helen was 17, a coach asked her to try a workout on an ergometer, a rowing machine.
After both intellectual activities, the men exercised one of their legs at a specialized one-legged ergometer to the point of muscular exhaustion, while frequently telling the researchers how strenuous the exercise felt.
He also mentioned a book on rowing, explaining that he had "taken up rowing on the ergometer and am trying to learn technique and optimal training regimen".
One, also reported at the sports medicine meeting, involved 74 adults, young and old, who wore an armband accelerometer and a portable oxygen-consumption gauge while walking, jogging, riding a stationary bicycle, windmilling an arm ergometer, and completing so-called activities of daily living, like lifting boxes and sweeping.
Her training regimen involves building muscle and doing plenty of aerobic training on the water and on a rowing ergometer machine, known as "the erg".
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Secondly, ergometers (machines on which rowers train) provide data on the power exerted on each stroke.
For seven months potential crews (each with eight oarsmen and a cox) undergo two intense sessions every day, one on the water and one on indoor rowing machines or ergometers.
As studied in Gibala's lab, it involves grunting through a series of short, strenuous intervals on specialized stationary bicycles, known as Wingate ergometers.
In the winter, when competitive rowers cannot train outdoors, they use ergometers and work on technique.
But the lake where they practice has been frozen, forcing them to do all their training indoors on ergometers, stationary machines that simulate rowing.
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