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What does ER stand for?

External Resistance


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Samples in periodicals archive:
9 tonnes of equipment including sleeping quarters, a refrigerator to hold materials for experiments and a treadmill named COLBERT -- Combined Operational Load Bearing External Resistance Treadmill -- after popular US comedian Stephen Colbert.
The Combined Operational Load Bearing External Resistance Treadmill (COLBERT) is the ISS's second treadmill.
space agency chose the name Tranquility for the last connecting hub and offered up COLBERT -- an acronym for Combined Operational Load Bearing External Resistance Treadmill -- as a consolation prize.
You can have someone add external resistance by placing weights on your back, but I have always preferred to do this movement with just my bodyweight at the end of a training session.
Resistance training involves pushing, pulling or lifting against a resistance, either your body weight or an external resistance, in order to improve muscular strength.
Take an issue where internal and external resistance to your changing (by choosing to please yourself) will be non-existent or minimal.
The fact that relatively "heavy" external resistance is not used--and is actually contraindicated for most movements--coaches fear that the muscle hypertrophy (i.
In this address, Dr Paris challenges our profession to respect the rights (and responsibilities) hard-won by our forbears, to confront apathy or external resistance and assert ourselves as "the [autonomous] profession of choice; the primary care practitioners for the restoration, maintenance and enhancement of the physical functioning of the individual" (Paris 2008).

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