He talked about the neighborhood he was building in Tamarasheni, with homes, schools, a sports complex, stores and playgrounds, as a symbol of Russian strength.
Many competitors also practice a playground activity that blends gymnastics and sheer strength.
Red-faced and sweating, I would struggle with all my strength to avoid getting pinned on the playground.
Mr. Chapman said he and some friends, the Bartendaz crew, pioneered the activity while doing regimens of pull-ups, push-ups and dips in Harlem playgrounds in 2002, and then made a DVD of strength exercises with flair.
In July, Streb and her dancers will turn London into a giant playground-come-assault course; there will be feats of strength and balance executed on and around historic locations, including Tower Bridge.
It was a regular day of spear training and trekking until we purposely went to what the Masai called a "buffalo playground" so that we could test our mental and physical strength.
The play environment influences child behavior, but the strength of this influence and its variation across playground zones remain unknown.
The battle becomes an elaborate version of the old playground game of rock-paper-scissors: each body part has particular strengths and weaknesses, so victory requires picking those that work best against the ones chosen by the enemy warrior.
The Active Play @ Home curriculum includes age-appropriate goal-oriented physical activities that combine playground and video games with specific exercises that target the following parameters: muscular strength and endurance, aerobic endurance, flexibility, balance, agility, and motor coordination.
As such, it was the ultimate playground for performers given to imagination, improvisation and informed conjecture, the particular strengths of Greenberg and those around him, who turned those bare hints into a lavish spectacle.
