In this simulation study, 10 female building construction workers lifted weights in 48 different combinations of lifting parameters, in which four different lifting frequencies (1, 4, 7, and 14 lifts min−1), three different load weights (5, 10, and 15 kg) and four different vertical lifting heights (knee, waist, shoulder, and maximum reach) were considered.
Factor analysis, with a promax rotation, on the correlation matrix of logged data was undertaken for age plus the thirteen measures of size and/or adiposity: height, width of shoulders, diameters of elbow, wrist, hip, and knee, waist circumference, skinfold measures of the subscapular, triceps, biceps, and suprailiac, and the impedance-based measures of fat and lean masses expressed as scores.
And then he demonstrated getting into character, slowly decompressing his body, part by part: "I go ankle, knees, waist, shoulders, hand, hand, lip, eyes, and that's it".
I am not competent to judge whether Chow is really the type to make the opposite sex go weak at the knees, waist, neck, and other points of seizure, although to my eyes he looked, with his whisker of mustache, like a no-good rat in a George Raft movie.
Choose a "meteorite" (small object, such as an eraser or golf ball) and drop it from knee height, waist height, and shoulder height.
She rapidly twitched the muscles of her toes, heel, calf, knee, hip, waist, shoulder, eyebrows, elbow, wrist, thumb, fingers on the right side, and then repeated the series for the left side.
Having perfect form is also the best way to keep yourself from getting injured; a bent knee or waist could throw you off balance just enough to cause a bad fall from the balance beam.
He reminded us to stay loose, to flex at the knees and waist.
The shot develops as a chain reaction across the entire length of Darrehsari's frame: knees bend, waist drops, elbows buckle, long hands snap — swish.
The new trousers showed significant decreases in compression force concentration, especially in and around the knees and waist.
Like gymnastics, they included compulsory tricks: two turns on the right foot, two turns on the left foot, two criss-crosses right over left, two criss-crosses left over right, ten high steps with knees to waist parallel to the floor.
