Sentences with phrase «focusing on your form instead»

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Instead, Hindus believe a physical representation of God — in the form of an idol - helps them focus on an aspect of prayer or meditation.

In California the spotlight that was to have shone on Tomy Lee focused instead on a whole crew of new names and new faces and, when Tomy Lee regained his old form in Kentucky a week ago, so did other upstarts begin pointing their noses toward Churchill Downs with the frisky determination of young colts sniffing the sweetness of roses in the brisk April wind.

Instead of focusing on the poor families that do not qualify for Social Security retirement benefits in the first place, the remainder of this paper will focus on the families who are effectively denied full coverage because of their family forms and in spite of their input from taxes and participation in the labor force.

Unlike previous special exhibits like Amphibians and Jellies, which focused on one species or class of animals, this exhibit will focus instead on the various forms of beauty in our lakes, rivers and oceans across the globe.

Our current work programme includes our first review of VAT, work on the possibility of using accounts depreciation instead of separate capital allowances computations and a broad overview of the business life cycle with a particular focus on forming a business, expanding a business, seeking external funding, including relevant tax reliefs, and disposing of a business.

The eight - time winner of the Mr. Olympia title stresses the importance of using explosive power and strict execution on every single rep. Instead of opting for lighter weight and focusing on the contraction, Coleman prefers forcing his muscles to work to their full capacity with as much weight as possible, while maintaining a perfect form.

Here we'll focus more on learning the proper sprinting techniques that will prepare your body and form for the true results, instead of just piling up a bunch of instant exercises.

Instead, focus on correcting your form and technique.

To make the most out of squats, leave your ego at the gym door and resist piling plate after plate on the bar — instead, try to perfect your form and improve your mind - muscle connection by focusing on maximizing the contraction on every rep.

You can do shrugs with a straight Olympic bar, dumbbells, the trap bar, or even cables — still, don't focus too much on the weight you work with and instead aim to perfect your form and technique.

Instead, focus on discovering what works best for your body, master the proper form and technique of every exercise and make sure you get plenty of rest and adequate nutrition between training sessions.

«Less is more» in bodybuilding means that you don't have train until you're near - unconscious to make great gains, performing 20 different exercises for one body part won't give you better results than opting for a wise selection of 5 and focusing on doing them with the proper form, weight and rep range, training twice every day won't make you grow faster but it will set you back instead and....

Instead of trying to do every exercise at every workout, focus on mastering your form and your breathing.

Instead, put all of your focus on maximally recruiting your pecs through proper form (as described above) and a good mind - muscle connection.

Instead of focusing on doing their repetitions with a good form and really feeling the muscle, they focus on squeezing as many reps as possible with a sloppy form at first and a horrible form later in the set.

So instead of using a belt, focus on acquiring proper form and building strength that way.

In addition, work on improving your form and technique and really focusing on the exercises instead of just going through the motions.

Try to focus on eating simple, natural organic ingredients in their whole forms instead of eating less or counting calories.

Instead of trying to do things fast — I slowed down and focused on correct form and a controlled pace.

Instead, it is important to focus on eating the right kinds of calories that come in the form of whole foods while avoiding processed carbohydrates.

Focus your «cardio» efforts on shorter duration variable intensity interval training, wind sprints, hill sprints, stair sprints, jump rope, and other higher intensity (and variable intensity) forms of training instead of relying on long duration, steady - pace boring traditional cardio.

Instead of hyping up fancy — sounding forms scientifically proven to be no more effective than creatine monohydrate, however, we decided to focus on what else we could include in the product to make it more effective for increasing muscle size and strength and improving recovery.

Instead of worrying about time under tension — let's focus on lifting as heavy as we can without sacrificing form.

With P.H.A.T. the idea is that, instead of focusing on specific training adaptations (hypertrophy, maximal strength, power etc.) individually for weeks at a time like with linear forms of periodization, you will perform exercises in both the lower rep ranges (3 - 5 reps) and higher rep rages (12 - 20 reps) within the same given week.

Try to have most of your meals at home instead of going out to eat, and focus on foods in their whole forms.

Instead of trying to squeeze in every facet of the man's storied life, Lincoln chooses to focus on the period as the Civil War drew to a bloody, heart - rending close and the president, who had chosen to form a cabinet made up largely of people who opposed him, was sticking to his campaign to abolish slavery.

These films are interesting, though, in that they feature almost no battle sequences and instead focus on the relationships that male groups form amid the surrounding danger or in war's aftermath.

While I agree the the movie dragged and instead of picking one character and focusing the plot on them, it seemed to drift aimlessly to and fro from one character to the next... I will say that I for one am happy that someone has decided to choose the follow a slightly more true to form version of the Snow White tale.

Finally, the letter contains a significant appendix of «illustrative» specific suggestions for policy and practice that could serve to help states and districts avoid violations, urging schools to reduce the use of suspension and other forms of exclusionary discipline, focusing instead on positive approaches.

Instead, we are treated to empathetic descriptions of «legions of genuinely good teachers both touching lives and successfully teaching skills and content in hundreds of middle schools» and hear the complaint that «most of the mandated assessments being used to determine students» attainment of the standards focus heavily on recall of facts, one of the lowest forms of thinking.»

By excluding the use of student scores on statewide mastery examinations in teacher evaluations curriculum emphasis can return to a well - rounded experience instead of the narrow focus of artificial achievement in the form of test preparation.

publishers) stopped looking for what was good, or even what would sell, and instead only focused on finding the next big, multi-million dollar (Fill in the blank) author, already formed.

ETF vendors should take note of these findings and instead of launching even more CAD - Hedged ETFs, they should be focusing on providing investors with more (and better) choice in the form of broad market ETFs that directly hold foreign stocks or ETFs.

In order to ensure that their food remains as high - quality and fresh as possible, Honest Kitchen also takes a step that many other companies won't: they've opted against using any kinds of dry kibble, and instead focus on providing dehydrated meals in a variety of forms and flavors.

When it was initially announced as XCOM in 2010, The Bureau raised the ire of long time fans of the strategy series for daring to deviate from its tried and true formula and instead focusing, in its earliest forms at least, on researching and uncovering evidence of alien existence against a 1950's backdrop.

To break down RIGS into its simplest form, the Mechanized Combat League is focused on three - versus - three gameplay with the FPS mechanics focusing not on the players themselves, but having the players instead pilot hulking power suits known as RIGS in arena combat.

As mentioned above, Resident Evil 7 is a return to form for the franchise, bringing back the classic focus on horror and survival instead of action like some of the entries in the series following Resident Evil 4.

While you can of course choose to ignore these objectives and instead focus solely on survival, these objectives form a significant part of the fun as teamwork is encouraged throughout.

He retreated from big - budget work, instead opting to focus on smaller, more profitable ventures, forming Loot Drop, a social network development outfit, to create title for the likes of Facebook.

Instead of trying to reinvent the form, the team has focused on getting the genre right, with considered level design and a careful drip - feed of new ideas throughout the game.

My personal feeling is that I alway respond to painting abstractly - not paying much attention to ostensible subject matter, but instead focusing on the space, line, form, and color - the language of painting.

Instead, he focuses on what could be termed the para-figurative: a mode of thought and production that treats the human form not as a discrete entity, but rather as a massively distributed data set occupying the interstitial gap between innumerable technologies — often designed by corporations and the military — to outline, project, destroy and re-create the body.

The report also says that most of the benefits of climate mitigation policies in the short term will come in the form of public health co-benefits from reduced air pollution, suggesting that climate advocacy will be well served to move away from debates over climate science and apocalyptic doomsaying, instead focusing on the multiple benefits in the near term of moving toward cleaner energy sources.

A year on from its last tablet effort, Sony presents another compelling large form factor slate Sony has so far resisted the move to smaller, cheaper tablets, instead focusing its efforts on 10.1 - inch slates like the Xperia Tablet Z, and before that the Tablet S. Sony's offering tablet for 2013 was a solid 10.1 - inch Android slate — a thin, light, waterproof device packing plenty of...

Myers Briggs focuses less on individual traits, instead grouping people into one of 16 basic personality types based on four main personality traits, their presence or lack, and the various combinations they may form.

If your board / association has taken off on some form of «vision quest» or «new world order» track instead of focusing on the reason your board / association was created, you are risking serious personal exposure for lack of due diligence of the responsibility you have undertaken.

It went something like this: hotel check - in, locate room, locate wifi service, attempt connection to wifi, wonder why the connection is taking so long, try again, locate phone, call front desk, get told «the internet is broken for a while», decide to hot - spot the mobile phone because some emails really needed to be sent, go «la la la» about the roaming costs, locate iron, wonder why iron temperature dial just spins around and around, swear as iron spews water instead of steam, find reading glasses, curse middle - aged need for reading glasses, realise iron temperature dial is indecipherably in Chinese, decide ironing front of shirt is good enough when wearing jacket, order room service lunch, start shower, realise can't read impossible small toiletry bottle labels, damply retrieve glasses from near iron and successfully avoid shampooing hair with body lotion, change (into slightly damp shirt), retrieve glasses from shower, start teleconference, eat lunch, remember to mute phone, meet colleague in lobby at 1 pm, continue teleconference, get in taxi, endure 75 stop - start minutes to a inconveniently located client, watch unread emails climb over 150, continue to ignore roaming costs, regret tuna panini lunch choice as taxi warmth, stop - start juddering, jet - lag, guilt about unread emails and traffic fumes combine in a very unpleasant way, stumble out of over-warm taxi and almost catch hypothermia while trying to locate a very small client office in a very large anonymous business park, almost hug client with relief when they appear to escort us the last 50 metres, surprisingly have very positive client meeting (i.e. didn't throw up in the meeting), almost catch hypothermia again waiting for taxi which despite having two functioning GPS devices can't locate us on a main road, understand why as within 30 seconds we are almost rendered unconscious by the in - car exhaust fumes, discover that the taxi ride back to the CBD is even slower and more juddering at peak hour (and no, that was not a carbon monoxide induced hallucination), rescheduled the second client from 5 pm to 5.30, to 6 pm and finally 6.30 pm, killed time by drafting this guest blog (possibly carbon monoxide induced), watch unread emails climb higher, exit taxi and inhale relatively fresher air from kamikaze motor scooters, enter office and grumpily work with client until 9 pm, decline client's gracious offer of expensive dinner, noting it is already midnight my time, observe client fail to correctly set office alarm and endure high decibel «warning, warning» sounds that are clearly designed to send security rushing... soon... any second now... develop new form of nausea and headache from piercing, screeching, sounds - like - a-wailing-baby-please-please-make-it-stop-alarm, note the client is relishing the extra (free) time with us and is still talking about work, admire the client's ability to focus under extreme aural pressure, decide the client may be a little too work focussed, realise that I probably am too given I have just finished work at 9 pm... but then remember the 200 unread emails in my inbox and decide I can resolve that incongruency later (in a quieter space), become sure that there are only two possibilities — there are no security staff or they are deaf — while my colleague frantically tries to call someone who knows what to do, conclude after three calls that no - one does, and then finally someone finally does and... it stops.