On another day, the same volunteers sweated through eight relatively strenuous sets of leg extension exercises.
Loud rap music pumped from speakers, and hundreds of onlookers — mostly young men cheering on their friends — crowded around entrants who struggled through strenuous sets of exercises.
"The 50 years seem to have gone so quickly," Ms. Peters, 70, said in a recent interview after strenuous sets of tennis at a Westchester country club near her home.
Somewhat endearingly, at times the argument made by the complex science that he cites boils down to saying, with Michael Pollan (or your grandmother), something as basic as "Eat fresh food". He also argues for a strenuously regular (and regularly strenuous) schedule, with set times for exercise and relaxation.
Sastre, Wiggins, and Porte all had multiple support riders with them in the breakaway who set strenuous paces to keep the group away.
That could be forgiven when playing a graphically intensive game or using a demanding app, but it also happened when installing apps when setting up the smartphone – not a particularly strenuous exercise.
However, a bout with malaria in Florida led him to contemplate a less strenuous journey, so he set course instead for California, where he'd read about the beauty of Yosemite Valley.
Ms. MacLaine, giving her face a strenuous, diverting workout, squares her jaw and tightly squinches her face, as if she were setting a spring trap and waiting for someone to take the bait.
This physically strenuous game of "3D chess" - with its endless permutations - is enough to keep many climbers happy without ever setting foot on a mountain.
In the absence of an elaborate system of administration, the authority of the government was strengthened by the ubiquity of its representatives, and no one set a more strenuous example than the king himself.
Katsouranis's advice notwithstanding, the stage seems set for a deluge of strenuous geopolitically-inflected punditry.
