Lifting weights shortens your muscle fibers, leading to reduced flexibility.
Their weight was shortening the bridge's life span by further stressing the structure.
LC suspension significantly attenuated the loss of body weight and shortening of colon length induced by DSS.
The results showed that oral administration of Gent significantly attenuated DSS-induced loss of body weight, diarrhea, shortening of colon length and histological changes, associated with the decrease in the activity of myeloperoxidase (MPO) in the colon.
He removed any excess weight by shortening the exhaust pipes by several feet.
'M2' and 'M3' sacrificed fire directly astern by moving the rear turret(s) amidships in order to save weight by shortening the length of the armoured citadel.
One advantage of turbo-electric drive was that the substitution of flexible electric cables for bulky steam-lines allowed the motors to be mounted further to the stern of the ship; this reduced vibration and weight by shortening the propeller shafts.
Compelled weight shift induced by lifts applied to the shoe of the nonparetic limb promoted improved weight symmetry, shortened latencies, and increased magnitudes of the response strength.
Working out with weights shortens muscles, so weight trainees should stretch.
However in patients with cholera, hypo-osmolar ORS does not reduce fecal weight or shorten diarrhea [6].
