Sentences with phrase «not powerful movements»

The traditional strength training regimen for these sports develops the outside large muscle groups, which produce large movements, but not powerful movements.

Not exact matches

The BCRI is, in large part, a museum of the civil rights movement; it is not only interesting and informative, but it is deeply powerful and affecting to see how white Americans (mis) treated African Americans, what motivated civil rights activists, and what they faced in their activism.

With such a powerful corporation behind this, led by a person who wants to see cryptocurrency adoption, I don't think it will be too long before we see more positive movements come from the Comcast camp.

Maybe evangelicalism as we understand it doesn't need our defense anymore: maybe we can open our fist, lay down our weapons for the movement or the ideology or the powerful, and simply walk away.

One does not have to operate at the top level of the ecumenical movement to suspect that the «nontheological factors» there exposed as powerful in church and theological history are operative along the whole front.

As it turns out, they are talking more and more about religious revival, about the rise of new religions, about the worldwide resurgence of fundamentalism, about the enormous impact religion is having on world affairs and, in this country, about the increased prominence of the Religious Right, a movement which may already be the most powerful special interest group in America and which has given ample notice that it doesn't consider its job anywhere near done.

Under his leadership it became not just a powerful preaching station, but — with the indispensable help of Cora Weiss (who does not get enough credit in this book)-- a buzzing center for the peace and nuclear disarmament movements.

I know what your saying but when I watch him often his movements of the ball is awesome and if he can shake of the injury demons he will be our Gerard or Lampard and not forgetting he has a powerful kick on him as well

Given all the defeats and set - backs this year due to powerful food industry lobbying, the good food movement should by now be collectively shouting: I am mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore.

In a clear appeal to voters on the left of the party, Smith said: «New Labour tried so hard to make sure it didn't alienate the powerful that I'm afraid too many people in our country, too many people in our movement found it impossible to distinguish between the Labour party and the institutions we were created to challenge.

A Labour coalition that brings together the left, the Blairite centre - right and the union movement is a powerful alliance; one that will potentially redraw the internal party dividing lines on immigration, regardless of what Ed Miliband might or might not say.

If it weren't for the #MeToo movement, and a threat to take on a powerful committee chairman directly, a bill intended to help prosecutors win convictions in sexual assault ca...

We are also dedicated not only to enabling control over computers or robotic assistive devices, but — for people with spinal cord injury or stroke — working toward the goal of reconnecting brain to limb, allowing the powerful intracortical signals to activate fully implanted functional electrical stimulation devices, and re-enabling intuitive movement of one's own arm and hand.»

However, this was only the case for people in the powerful group, not for people in the powerless group: they liked all movements equally well.

When you see a guy who clearly doesn't know how to do a correct kettlebell swing or could use a bit of improvement, try to give him some basic directions or politely suggest him to find a coach and educate himself because he's distracting everyone with his dangerous lack of understanding about the mechanics of this powerful movement.

Simply put, an endless series of any movement lacking proper form and focus won't get you anywhere in the same way that a lack of volume or intensity will yield weak results even in terms of the most powerful exercises.

Keep your feet about shoulder - width apart so that you have a stable and powerful base, and keep your legs straight but not locked all through the movement.

This powerful Olympic lift variation is literally a movement you can't afford not to do because it effectively hits the mid-back, rhombs, rear delts, traps and builds the entire posterior chain as well.

What athlete wouldn't want to be stronger, faster, more powerful, balanced, and aware of each movement?

You either have strong, powerful muscles that can create quick and powerful movements or weak muscles that can't create powerful, fast movements.»

Although evidence seems to point out the importance of prioritizing speed over strength, skill over muscular development — see: «train the movement, don't train the muscles» (Vern Gambetta)-- it is imperative to realize how the key concept in developing stronger, more powerful athletes is training integration, a monumental quote from the work of Gregory Haff.

that powerful, rotational movements against resistance are the REAL key to developing a tight, strong core that not only looks great but gives you serious improvements in functional strength.

The gluteus maximus not only is used in powerful movement that require hip extension (jumping, stair climbing) but it also is a muscle that helps create a posterior pelvic tilt.

Performing movements that you normally don't do delivers powerful and fast acting changes to the body.

In fact, probably the most off - timed pattern I've seen was in a very high level CrossFit athlete, who had a great standing vertical jump, but couldn't get any higher with any approach (due to quad and spine dominated movement, powerful, but slow).

But, no matter what you choose, Cardiac Output Work is equally powerful and there aren't a lot of negatives related to programming 3D movement in low heart rate zones.

As the movement grows larger and more powerful, Heineman discovers this is not just a story about good against evil — I came away thinking there is no difference between the knights templar and the defenses.

«Because you were wearing a Time's Up pin in support of the Time's Up movement, which has been created by many powerful women in Hollywood to say that the time is up for the abuse, misuse of women both sexually and otherwise, not only in Hollywood but around the country.

It is no accident that the American labor movement has been kept afloat by the success of public - sector unions - and that the largest, most powerful union in the country is not the Teamsters or the United Auto Workers, but the National Education Association.

There were plenty of folks feeling frustrated because charters, on the whole, weren't focused on quality from an academic perspective, and in general were somewhat opposed to an increasingly powerful standards movement.

If Crist becomes Florida's next Senator, the teacher unions can claim that they are not only the most powerful interest group in Florida but strong enough to underpin a third - party movement.

«The whole movement toward the notion that teachers don't have a basic right to be in the classroom unless they are effective is proving so powerful as an idea that they're weakened because they've run away from it rather than embrace it.»

Despite its lofty goals for every student and the support of some of the most powerful national players in education reform, the modern standards and accountability movement has hit a rough patch, if you haven't noticed.

«It doesn't seem like there's any movement planned,» says Sen. Floyd McKissick, a Durham Democrat who sits on the state Senate's Rules and Operations Committee, a panel that includes some of the chamber's most powerful lawmakers and sets the agenda for future committee talks.

«(Reuters)-- Chicago teachers... are taking on not just their combative mayor but a powerful education reform movement that is transforming public schools across the United States.»

Dr. King «explained in his powerful Letter from Birmingham Jail why the civil rights movement could not wait,» said Duncan.

However, whoever sowed the seeds, there's no doubt that a powerful environmental movement did not emerge in the USA until after World War II.

«We've learned that it's not possible to provide for the physical well - being of pets while disregarding their emotional well - being, and CAPNA's commitment to Fear Free is a powerful indicator that this movement is truly inevitable.»

These points will not only allow you to purchase the additional artillery or health in missions but they are also used to upgrade your squad's capabilities, through increased armour and more powerful weapons to faster movement speed or a better starting rank.

«Spire» (1958) stands out for its powerful evocation of space — not just as movements forward and back, but as the resolute locating of forms across the canvas; its airy, angular movement of ochres and bluish tints culminates, along one side, in a clamber of reds, blues, and a final, teetering black.

, you are lying on the floor of your place looking up, a small draft runs through the room, between the door and the window, and all things seem perfectly still, wind only disturbs concrete in imperceptible ways, or it may take millions of years to be noticed and, as the air runs through the space, all your plants move and all is animated and all is alive somehow, and here are the thoughts of all men in all ages and lands, they are not original with me, and that wind upon your plants is the common air that bathes the globe, and we have no ambitions of universalism, and I'm glad we don't, but the particles of air bring traces of pollen and are charged with electricity, desert sand, maybe sea water, and these particles were somewhere else before they were dragged here, and their route will not end by the door of this house, and if we tell each other stories, one can imagine that they might have been bathed by this same air, regrouped and recombined, recharged as a vehicle for sound, swirling as it moves, bringing the sound of a drum, like that Kabuki story where a fox recognizes the voice of its parents as a girl plays a drum made out of their skin, or any other event, and yet I always felt your work never tells stories, I tend to think that narrative implies a past tense, even if that past was just five seconds ago, one second ago was already the past, and human memory is irrelevant in geological time, plants and fish know not what tomorrow will bring, neither rocks nor metal do, but we all live here now, and we all need visions and we all need dreams, and as long as your metal sculptures vibrate they are always in the Present, and their past is a material truth alien to narrative, but well, maybe narrative does not imply a past tense at all and they are writing their own story while they gently move and breathe, and maybe nothing was really still before the wind came in, passing through the window as if through an irrational portal to make those plants dance, but everything was already moving and breathing in near complete silence, and if you're focused enough you can feel the pulse of a concrete wall and you can feel the tectonic movements of the earth, and you can hear the magma flowing under our feet and our bones crackling like a wild fire, and you can see the light of fireflies reflected in polished metal, and there is nothing magical about that, it is just the way things are, and sometimes we have to raise our voice because the music is too loud and let your clothes move to a powerful bass, sound waves and bright lights, powerful like the sun, blinding us if we stare for too long, but isn't it the biggest sign of love, like singing to a corn field, and all acts of kindness that are not pitiful nor utilitarian, that are truly horizontal as everything around us is impregnated with the deadliest violence, vertical and systemic, poisonous, and sometimes you just want to feel the sun burning your skin and look for life in all things declared dead, a kind of vitality that operates like corrosion, strong as the wind near the sea, transforming all things,

This couldn't be more accurate of Holzer's truism «Abuse of Power Comes as No Surprise,» which has become endlessly sharable as a powerful slogan for the #metoo movement as of late.

Simple and powerful, this campaign «walks the walk» to reach conscious consumers who will not only buy products from REI, but who align with their social values, growing beyond the brand into sort of a social media movement all its own.

Clearly what we've been doing as responsible citizens and climate activists has not been working as well as we hoped it would; we haven't built the powerful people's movement we need for strong climate action.

And, with young and grassroots environmentalists more inspired by the vision of creating a new energy economy than regulating the old one, there's new hope that we will soon see the emergence of a more expansive, relevant, and powerful ecological movement, one grounded in possibilities, not limits.

His goal in this book is «to prompt you not to lament our governments» failures to introduce the measures required to tackle climate change, but to force them to reverse their policies, by joining what must become the world's most powerful political movement».

It's easy to install, it's powerful enough to flatten hills and shorten commute times considerably, it's light enough to not be a huge burden when carried, and the way that it «reads» the rider's movements and seamlessly adds power when desired is almost magical.

we need a powerful and active movement not to force the administration and the Democrats in Congress to do something they don't want to, but to give them the political space they need to act on their convictions.