What's the difference between calisthenics and gymnastics?
Calisthenics
Definition:
(n.) The science, art, or practice of healthful exercise of the body and limbs, to promote strength and gracefulness; light gymnastics.
Example Sentences:
(1) Respiratory and cardiocirculatory response to rehabilitation calisthenics in 30 patients, aged 39-66 years, with recent myocardial infarction was studied.
(2) Participants were randomly assigned to one of three groups: a calisthenics program (CAL) for 3 months with biweekly sessions of flexion exercises, a back school program (5 sessions), and a control group.
(3) Alex’s neck pain developed into migraines, and he was no longer able to do the army’s morning calisthenics.
(4) Results indicate that total energy-cost values accurately reflect the cardiac effort required during the performance of these calisthenic exercises by normal subjects.
(5) The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of 2 different swimming and calisthenic exercise programs on body composition and swim performance.
(6) Participants, referred by their personal physicians, meet three times weekly for individually prescribed group walking-jogging-calisthenic sessions lasting 45 minutes each.
(7) The 45-minute program, designed by a physical therapist, consisted of a stretching, calisthenics, and "cool-down" routine set to popular music.
(8) All subjects exercised twice a week as a group and once a week on their own; the diet plus moderate exercise group walked a 3-mile route at each session while the diet plus placebo exercise group did very low intensity exercises such as stretching and light calisthenics.
(9) Different activities were tried, such as weight-lifting, pulking, swimming, volleyball, calisthenics in a group, horseback-riding, archery, tabletennis, canoeing, totalling 11 955 training hours.
(10) This study investigated the relationships between serum testosterone level and selected physiological and personality variables in 58 males (21-61 years) before and after a four month physical fitness program consisting of jogging, calisthenics, and recreational activities.
(11) Oxygen comsumption and heart rate response during identical calisthenic-type exercises performed on land and in the water were compared in eight subjects.
(12) This study examined the relationship between total energy cost and cardiac effort for a set of graded calisthenics that have been used in cardiac rehabilitation programs.
(13) They might be singing in groups, dancing the waltz or fox-trot, or practising calisthenics, and are very open to newcomers.
(14) The purpose of this study was to compare the oxygen consumption (VO2) during calisthenic exercises in middle-aged women (aged 43-63 years) with and without coronary artery disease (CAD).
(15) A young (X = 36.8 years) and an old (X = 52.9 years) group (n = 12) matched for physical fitness performed a graded exercise test at the beginning and after a 4-month physical fitness program consisting of calisthenics, jogging, and recreational activities.
(16) The complex included pneumatic compression for edema of the arm, low-frequency electric and magnetic therapy, massage, calisthenics and drug treatment.
(17) Reconditioning techniques included free and treadmill walking, stair climbing, bench stepping, light calisthenics, and breathing retraining.
(18) All patients underwent 24-hour Holter monitoring, treadmill exercise testing at a target heart rate previously determined as inducing signs of myocardial ischaemia, and swimming and calisthenic programs with telemetric ECG recording.
(19) Walking, stretching calisthenics, and other aerobic activities, if of reasonable intensity and duration, and when preceded and followed by an appropriate warm-up and cool-down period, respectively, can result in a substantial, positive training effect in the elderly.
(20) Each exercise session incorporated calisthenics, treadmill exercise, and bicycle and arm ergometry with progressively greater workloads on the various stations.
Gymnastics
Definition:
(n.) Athletic or disciplinary exercises; the art of performing gymnastic exercises; also, disciplinary exercises for the intellect or character.
Example Sentences:
(1) This law can be used to simulate the ground reaction force during under-foot impact with a gymnastic surface.
(2) We see a lot of verbal gymnastics by these candidates at public events,” said Paul S Ryan at the Campaign Legal Center.
(3) The greatest proportion of injuries in children occur in gymnastics, figure skating and modern gymnastics.
(4) "With the full backing of British Gymnastics, the trainers who helped take Smith and Tweddle to Olympic glory are ready to turn the nation's pop stars, actors, newsreaders and chefs into heroes of the high bars and titans of the tumble track," it added.
(5) The athletes were training in gymnastics, figure skating, synchronized swimming, volleyball, or track.
(6) Anthropometric characteristics, passive hip flexion, and spinal mobility were examined and back pain was registered in 116 top Swedish male athletes representing four different sports (wrestling, gymnastics, soccer, tennis).
(7) The gymnast Louis Smith took individual silver and team bronze at the Olympics and went on to win the BBC's Strictly Come Dancing last month, with the cyclist Victoria Pendleton also competing.
(8) While some gymnasts seem more ethereal than corporeal, Beth's blisters and calluses have always been obvious.
(9) Wang was said to excel in physics and calligraphy; Ye in literature and gymnastics.
(10) The versatility of training, in combination with adequate gymnastical exercises and sports help to educate the sense of posture and movement with the effect that erect posture can be adopted and maintained.
(11) Awareness of space and time, songs and poems, narratives and themes discussed made it possible to revival the necessary gymnastics of the mind.
(12) In comedy, for example, the agenda kept changing with a set of circular twists and turns more dizzying than the ones that got our gymnasts a bronze at the Olympics.
(13) This year’s US national gymnastics championships and next year’s Olympic diving team trials will be held in Indianapolis.
(14) Monteggia fractures can occur during a fall on an outstretched arm, for example in motor or bicycle sport injuries, but also when falling from gymnastic equipment.
(15) A therapeutic algorithm was established to facilitate the evaluation and management of gymnast wrist pain.
(16) Satisfactory joint function was eventually achieved in all by gymnastic exercises and physiotherapy over a long period.
(17) Women who feel "unfeminine" when playing sport could take up other activities like "ballet, gymnastics, cheerleading and even roller-skating", the minister of sports, equalities and tourism Helen Grant has suggested.
(18) At the time, with the current gen consoles as our platforms, we had to do a lot of technological gymnastics just to do simple things like creating your character's load out on your smartphone on the train then have it waiting for you on the console when you got home.
(19) Cooperation in gymnastics and controls within short times by the doctor are necessary.
(20) Putin has long been rumoured to have had a series of dalliances with much younger women, and there has been speculation that he fathered a child with a former Olympic gymnast.