Sentence examples for muscles from inspiring English sources

Each morning for an hour we power through a series of demanding postures – downwards dogs and warriors – switching on tired muscles and stretching out the lower back and spine, which feels good after long hours paddling.

And while Morgan "reserves the right to stretch his writing muscles when he's doing this kind of stuff" he also does a huge amount of research, says Sheen.

"Your muscles waste away, you can't do anything, you end up possibly being fed through a tube, you have a machine to help you breathe, and you can be mentally competent – your brain is fully active – but you can't do anything.

MND progressively weakens the muscles until the sufferer cannot do anything by himself.

"She wanted to also look like she was really singing and wanted to be using the same muscles and the same stretches you do in expressions".

With such a poor showing from traditional TV, Netflix and Amazon Prime are able to flex their muscles like never before.

For Ballard, dissection enables psychological as well as physical forensics: "Sitting beside her, I pared back the skin of her shoulder, dividing the muscles and exposing the nerves of her brachial plexus, the strings that had once moved her arms as she caressed her husband, brushed her hair, cradled her child".

The climbs here aren't super-steep, but they're long and they're relentless – and after 100 miles you're fatigued, and it's great to change up and use different muscles, so I look forward to some climbing.

But for a greater effect, other interventions are also needed, such as relaxation techniques in which you lie down before the exam, close your eyes and focus on breathing while tensing and relaxing groups of muscles in turn (legs, arms and stomach).

I always keep some speedwork going because obviously it is a neural thing and once we start we can't let those fast muscle fibres fall asleep and turn back into slow twitch muscles.

Emily, who graduated from Canterbury Christ Church University in 2013, says: "I realised I wouldn't be able to write during my exams in third year, because my muscles were totally seized up and I was in excruciating pain.