(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.
Potato
Definition:
(n.) A plant (Solanum tuberosum) of the Nightshade family, and its esculent farinaceous tuber, of which there are numerous varieties used for food. It is native of South America, but a form of the species is found native as far north as New Mexico.
(n.) The sweet potato (see below).
Example Sentences:
(1) Try the sweet potato falafel, quinoa, roast vegetables, harissa and sumac yogurt ($23).
(2) The amino acid sequence of subunit A of the potato chymotryptic inhibitor I was determined.
(3) Three strains of fluorescent pseudomonads (IS-1, IS-2, and IS-3) isolated from potato underground stems with roots showed in vitro antibiosis against 30 strains of the ring rot bacterium Clavibacter michiganensis subsp.
(4) Histamine release assay performed with isolated fractions of the potato extract showed a great individual variation and positive results of fractions of molecular weights between 10.00 and 80.00 kD.
(5) Transposition of En-1 in the potato clone was analysed by Southern blot hybridization and confirmed by molecular isolation of En-1 excision and integration events.
(6) They released a song on (the now banned) YouTube, called Alu Anday (Potatoes and Eggs) taking a swipe at the military as well as sectarian killers.
(7) Isolated nuclei from green leaf tissue of tomato plants infected with potato spindle tuber viroid (PSTVd) were bound to microscope slides, fixed with formaldehyde and hybridized with biotinylated transcripts of cloned PSTVd cDNA.
(8) The PPi-dependent Pfk of potato is only distantly related to the ATP-dependent enzymes.
(9) For obtaining protein isolates, water, whey, and waste effluents from a potato processing plant were used as extraction solvents.
(10) We have examined under a variety of conditions the ability of potato starch phosphorylase to cause exchange of the ester and phosphoryl oxygens of alpha-D-glucopyranose 1-phosphate (Glc-1-P).
(11) A simple and efficient method is presented for the extraction, cleanup, and liquid chromatographic (LC) determination of oxamyl residues in potato tubers.
(12) The exception was potato crisps which gave a similar glycemic response to boiled potato.
(13) cDNA clones of potato virus X (PVXcp strain), potato virus Y (PVYo strain), potato leaf roll virus (PLRV) and potato spindle tuber viroid (PSTV) were used separately or combined for the detection of the corresponding RNAs in extracts of infected plants.
(14) Add potatoes and simmer for as long as it takes for them to cook.
(15) The export of pectate lyase, polygalacturonase, and cellulase and the maceration of potato tuber tissue occurred with Out+, but not Out-, strains of E. carotovora subsp.
(16) Their insulin responses to bush potato were also twice as large (p less than 0.05) although glucose responses were not significantly different.
(17) Western blots of extracts from P(i)-deficient cells were probed with rabbit anti-(potato tuber PFP) immune serum and revealed equal intensity staining immunoreactive polypeptides of M(r) 66,000 (alpha-subunit) and 60,000 (beta-subunit) that co-migrated with the alpha- and beta-subunits of homogeneous potato tuber PFP.
(18) Antigenic properties of intact potato virus X (PVX) particles and of PVX coat protein (CP) preparations were compared using different modifications of ELISA test.
(19) Deletion analysis from the 3' to the 5' end of the promoter region of the wound-inducible potato proteinase inhibitor IIK gene has identified a 421-base sequence at -136 to -557 that is necessary for expression.
(20) Potato meal was consumed readily in the quantities offered.