(1) And I decided that the best way for me to come to America was to become a bodybuilding champion, because I knew that was the ticket the instant that I saw a magazine cover of my idol, Reg Park.
(2) Only 17 patients fit the stereotype of a steroid user (ie, competitive bodybuilders or professional and collegiate athletes); football players comprised 12.4% of the total.
(3) Bodybuilders have used different carbohydrate loading regimens in conjunction with resistance exercise prior to competition in the belief that this would result in increased muscle size.
(4) In this study 21 top-level bodybuilders [users of anabolic steroids (A): n = 14; non-users (N): n = 7] underwent one-dimensional and two-dimensional echocardiography as well as a cycle ergometer test.
(5) There were also reports that he had been a keen bodybuilder.
(6) These data suggest that the extent of any change in muscle mass or muscle fiber characteristics is minimal after a bodybuilder of either gender has attained a high degree of muscle mass and a highly competitive status.
(7) It appears, though, that bodybuilders, relying on a high repetition training system, in contrast to Olympic weight- and power lifters, display a small increase in number of capillaries per fiber.
(8) "There's a stereotype of a groaning bodybuilding guy using the weights area," says McGown.
(9) Endurance athletes excreted more total daily urea than either bodybuilders or controls.
(10) Serum creatine kinase (CK) activities were investigated in elite male strength athletes (n = 20) during normal weight training and bodybuilding training (one training session per day), during high volume strength training (two sessions per day) and during strength training (one session per day) with the use of high dose synthetic androgens (five athletes in each subgroup).
(11) Four male bodybuilders who had started taking anabolic steroids were monitored during exercise.
(12) Bodybuilding has become a near obsession for many of the soldiers who live on site, who have little else to do once they have finished work.
(13) This study indicates that college-aged female bodybuilders have food intake and exercise patterns that are unique to the sport.
(14) The results of the present study together with other observations suggest that intense long-term strength training, as performed by bodybuilders, does not constitute a potential cardiovascular risk factor.
(15) Although use is most common in bodybuilders and weight lifters, athletes participating in track and field events and football also take the steroids.
(16) The results revealed no significant difference between sedentary controls and non-steroid bodybuilders suggesting that this form of training does not cause beneficial effects on lipoproteins.
(17) The type of RTE probably influences the magnitude of these responses since the increase in blood lactate is much greater during a typical "bodybuilding" than "power lifting" session.
(18) A 30 year old bodybuilder who had been taking anabolic steroids for 18 months presented with bleeding oesophageal varices.
(19) Pigs are also treated with the beta-agonist drug Ractopamine, which has hormone-like bodybuilding effects.
(20) A questionnaire, designed to elict information about training programs, experience and injury profile, was administered to 358 bodybuilders and 60 powerlifters.
Freak
Definition:
(v. t.) To variegate; to checker; to streak.
(n.) A sudden causeless change or turn of the mind; a whim of fancy; a capricious prank; a vagary or caprice.
Example Sentences:
(1) Freaks And Geeks was my thing, based on my experiences.
(2) Although she's been performing since 2000 – in the punk-cabaret duo the Dresden Dolls , in a controversial conjoined-twin mime act called Evelyn Evelyn (they wear a specially constructed two-person dress and have been castigated by disability groups for presenting conjoined twins as circus freaks, an accusation she denies) – in her new band, Amanda Palmer And The Grand Theft Orchestra , she's suddenly become a kind of phenomenon.
(3) Klitschko is a self-confessed control freak; so Fury was trying to rattle him out of his rhythm.
(4) 5.54pm BST It looks like the senate office buildings are returning to normal, just as the FREAK OUT party was getting exciting.
(5) You couldn't get much more bohemian than the music playing in this room of tiny round tables, first French crooner Serge Gainsbourg and then cabaret freak Scott Walker wailing of their obelisk-size pain.
(6) Over the summer his father, Jimmy, died from throat cancer , and his cousin, Hannah, was killed in a freak accident while on holiday.
(7) Although achilles tears are typically freak injuries, this hasn't stopped fans and media members alike from blaming Bryant's injuries on head coach Mike D'Antoni and his unwillingness, or inability, to get Bryant off the court for any significant amount of time.
(8) After almost 24 hours of being told I stank and generally being treated like a contagious freak, I was so grateful for these ministrations that I went to hug them.
(9) 1.23am GMT Red Sox 0 - Cardinals 1, top of the 4th Dustin Pedroia, quiet most of this postseason, is up to salvage anything here, it seems improbable that these Sox hitters can be rendered mute by Lance freaking Lynn, but so it goes.
(10) An African woman sold into slavery, Baartman was brought to London in 1810 as the "Hottentot Venus" and exhibited as a freak of nature in London and France.
(11) Sharknado, a satirical disaster film featuring man-eating sharks let loose on Los Angeles by a freak cyclone, premiered on SyFy in 2013 and became a cult hit, gaining some traction later as a theatrical release.
(12) Yes, yes, Richard Gere in American Gigolo, Cary Grant in North by Northwest, Steve McQueen in Bullitt, Colin Firth and Daniel Craig in whatever, blah blah freaking blah.
(13) It was common for people to insist I must be Latvian, as they were so freaked out by the idea of meeting someone from England.
(14) Nor is it an excuse for children to demand the hiring of a freaking limo.
(15) The Interview will become a global must-see and their Soviet-style control-freak instincts will look silly and culpable.
(16) But the sale of the house in Chester was held up for several months by a freak accident, a burst water main under the foundations which flooded the ground floor and made it uninhabitable.
(17) Where other sources of Georgian entertainment, from public dissections and freak shows to Bedlam and the Foundling Hospital, have, for one reason or another, fallen by the wayside, the exhibition of exotic beasts remains popular enough for someone such as Gill, a self-described “animal nutritionist”, to make a fortune out of it.
(18) This alternative economic activity, which often looked like a freak show – it attracted young people in.
(19) SPOILER ALERT: This blog discusses plot points from Freak Show, the fourth season of American Horror Story.
(20) Little ones might freak out a bit at the wax characters and the gloomy dark but this is a fun way to bring a fairly weighty school text to life.