Sentences with phrase «more eccentric works»

If that's not your bag, you might enjoy these more eccentric works: 20 Strange and Wonderful Books, and 20 even stranger and more wonderful books.

More eccentric works distinguish Carlos Matter and Olivia Etter.

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When doing negative reps, you should find yourself a spotter that will help you during the the concentric part of the movement while you'll do most of the work on the eccentric part by lowering the weight more slowly.

A recent study published in Frontiers in Physiology found that accentuated eccentric loading (AEL)-- which involves lowering a weight slowly during the lengthening of the muscle, rather than letting it drop — might be more effective in avoiding a plateau then changing a program week to week.Scientists conducted a ten - week experiment involving three strength - training groups, with the AEL programming noting an increase in force production, work capacity, muscle activation and resistance compared to the other methods.

It is suggested that this works due to the ability of the exercise to increase the peak eccentric force of the hamstrings at shallower angles of knee flexion (the knee is more extended) vs. a leg curl which puts a premium on concentric force when the knee is in full flexion.

According to Sakhrani, «Doing [lower - body] exercises works on muscles that help maintain an active lifestyle as well as enhance athletic performance,» listing benefits such as gait improvement for easier walking, better balance, more eccentric control (the ability to absorb impact), and enhanced recovery through growth hormone production.

All of this means that when you challenge your body to do more WORK — for instance, by going very slowly on the eccentric portion of the movement — you get more of your important type 2 (fast twitch) muscle fibers involved... which means you become more metabolically active to burn fat... AND build greater strength.

Variations of these movements that change angle work the muscles differently and in some cases can more beneficial and joint - friendly — dumbbell floor press, Neutral grip eccentric chin - up, Chest supported neutral grip dumbbell row, steep incline dumbbell press, B - stance deadlift, Bulgarian split squats.

There have been similar films about young men traveling home to find themselves of late, perhaps most successfully in a similarly themed vehicle, Garden State, but Buscemi's knack for drawing out well - rounded eccentric characters that are believable allows Jim to work more often than not.

The comedy is subtle and rarely overplayed (think more Curb Your Enthusiasm than Anchorman) which works beautifully well with the tone of the film and its eccentric characters.

Anderson's idiosyncratic style of oddball, dialogue - driven humor is present, but like those previously mentioned films, it's the way that humor and those strange characteristics tie to the central thematic focus that make Anderson's work more than the sum of its eccentric parts.

More wildly colored and formally eccentric than those of most young New York abstractionists, Murray's paintings had an affinity with the loosely geometric works of such other post-Minimalists as Mary Heilmann, Sean Scully, and Bill Jensen.

«Several Art Events Making a Scene» San Francisco Chronicle Written by Kenneth Baker June 25, 2014 More information here Sophont in Action: One of the most eccentric contemporary artists working in the Bay Area, Desirée Holman will enlist local residents in an outdoor performance activating visionary elements of her art, on view here, in static and kinetic media.

Until September 12th, the artwork at the Linda Pace Foundation's SPACE will look deceptively like a group show — or more accurately, like an eccentric re-contextualization of seminal works.

In his sculptural works that explore materials such as bronze and ceramic, the artist makes physical some of his more curious and eccentric propositions by transforming found objects or by playing with their scale.

At the end of the opening galleries, an eccentric spiral staircase leads you upstairs to three more rooms where the quality of Hoyland's work grows more variable.

Having spent most of his life in Balen, Belgium, where he worked as a teacher for many years, Geys has cultivated a reputation as an eccentric freethinker, more concerned with the activities of his community than the art world.

The heavier textures, which are the most recent development in the work, bring a funkier and more eccentric expressiveness to the table that for me makes this work feel all the more urgent, personal, and singular.

Nevertheless, her work is more akin to the art strategies that emerged around movements such as Pattern and Decoration, Fiber Art or, in Lucy R. Lippard's definition, «Eccentric Abstraction».

Always unique, the works of Rammellzee were at once more eccentric, and intellectually challenging than much of the Graffiti and Street Art that was popular during that era.

At the present moment, however — at a time of increased interest in such European and American artists as Kozan's near contemporary, Biloxi potter George E. Ohr, whose work was rediscovered in the 1970s; in 1960s ceramic artists like Ron Nagle and Ken Price; in outsider artist and ceramicist Eugene Von Bruenchenhein; and in contemporary artists working in clay like Kathy Butterly, Andrew Lord, and Arlene Shechet — it is Kozan's more eccentric sculpted works that resonate.