Sentences with phrase «barely eek»

The problem is that the fixed rental costs are high at the stores, and low foot traffic translates into low sales that barely eek out an overall profit.

Do you have this much time to spend to barely eek out a small gain?

I can already do 15 - 20 regular pull ups (never tried to go to failure on those), but when doing this workout, the pushups destroy me, I can do about 15 of the dive bomb pushup... then I'm so torn up from that I can barely eek out 2 - 3 of each of the rest of the upper body workouts.

And when I put 345 on the bar my first day, I could barely eek out 3 reps. And of course, the thought instantly crossed my mind that I should have consumed some of those damn BCAAs.