Sentences with phrase «try going through the motions»

Most importantly, always focus on your breathing, and try going through the motions with ease, and as naturally as possible.

You may even try going through the motions of strength training with no weight, since you're still lifting the weight of your arms and legs.

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Or the times when I go through the motions — caring for the poor, showing hospitality, fellowshipping with believers, praying, reading Scripture, trying to live like Jesus — to find that there is redemption in the motions themselves, that taking a step of faith does not necessarily require a desire to move.

Here goes another try... The Universe is a chaotic mixture of matter (sub-atomic particles) and energy (motion and, light) in space time, where matter, through evolution, recombines to raise up consciousness, such as yourself.

Not sure we were really serious about Lemar - I think he was probably our yearly «well we tried but failed» marquee signing - we were going through the motions with him.

This season is going to peter out with us finishing 6th or 7th because we have a manager who can not seem to motivate his players to at least look as if they are trying rather than just going through the motions.

And that is evident when you only see 2 or 3 player's that are actually trying, whilst the others are just going through the motions.

I still go through the motions of trying to watch Arsenal, but it doesn't bother me any more if I miss a game.

And try not to remember that what you're seeing now is mostly players going through the motions to get back into the literal swing of things.

That is not for want of Oppositions trying, but rather because all the cards are stacked overwhelmingly in favour of Governments so that they have merely to go through the motions to get their way.

Try these five workouts on for size — but, instead of going through the motions, maximize your efforts with the expert - approved tips below.

Have you ever tried to workout on an empty stomach and felt like you were just «going through the motions»?

Trying to control sugar cravings without addressing insulin resistance is like learning to swim without getting in the water: you're only going through the motions, not developing any lasting change.

Try to go through as large a range of motion as possible performing the exercise in a slow and controlled manor.

The very very last thing that I add in and sometimes it can be a good 12 - 15 weeks before I add in this component is chronic competitive motion where it's okay, we're actually going out to go on a bike ride or swim or run or something that is metabolic conditioning roadwork because that's the stuff in someone that is overtrained who often times has their parasympathetic nervous system really really beat up you know, if you test their heart rate variability, the number called there high frequency is really really consistently low you know usually because there are triathletes or marathoners that's more often I'm dealing with those people with adrenal fatigue than I am with like a cross fitter who's kind of an opposite sympathetic nervous system fatigue issue but with those parasympathetic nervous fatigue, the last thing we add back in is the swimming and the biking and the running because it's important to realize that when you're trying to recover from adrenal fatigue or overtraining, even if you're doing like an easy swim or an easy bike ride or an easy run, if you're a triathlete or a marathoner or a swimmer or a cyclist, those easy sessions send a message to your body that you're training, that you're running from a lion and you still get that hormonal depletion and it's so easy for you to just turn into a depletion session and so that's the very very last thing that I'll add back in so that's kinda like the crow's eye view of you know, the type of things that I'll implement in a program for overtraining recovery, you know and you know, this is something that people hire me to walk them through.

Still, I can't help but be a little frowny - face when I'm only going through the motions of trying this dress on.

2006 the line with all went through going through the motions or trying romantic dating site to.

The problem is that some episodes are too much like a procedural, going through the usual motions trying to find out whats going on because the witness isn't telling them everything, and others are just plain boring.

Although he created the series and has penned every instalment to date, Australian actor and screenwriter Leigh Whannell appears to be going through the motions with the flimsy narrative, even when he tries to step into more thematically interesting territory.

He is capable of more but he's just going through the motions here — trying to play his usual tough guy.

Even though some of Sandler's early work was idiotic, at least one got the feeling that he was trying to entertain and not just going through the motions.

We are just strapped in for the ride and go through the motions, the director trying and failing to make us care what is going on.

Perhaps a director not as experienced as Singer might've served the film better, as at least he or she would have been trying instead of going through the motions.

This faded star just seems to be going through the motions one again, trying to capture the spark that made him a 1980s icon.

Watching Nathalie go through the motions of losing touch with modern school system, letting go of her husband and kids who have moved on, trying to connect with today's youth, and hopelessly falling in love with a cat ended up being the very best cinematic experience I've had at the festival, and indeed, the year so far.

Individuals are just going through the motions trying to get through another week and eventually another year.

He was either preaching to the choir or trying to convert the unconvertible, but it didn't stop him from going through the motions — the futility of it was central, necessary.

I can definitely see some pitfalls: administrative burden, just another hurdle for students trying to gain access to education, etc... However, many students go through the motions of securing federal (and private) education loans and never give it a second thought of what the ramifications will be for them once they have to enter into repayment.

I frequently feel like I'm stuck in the movie Groundhog Day as well just going through the motions each day trying to get to the weekends.

It's too easy to get caught in the trap of trying to see everything there is to see; going through the motions but not really absorbing anything.

I try and champion fighting games, but its really hard to watch a franchise go through the motions as King of Fighters has.

However, if you play your cards right, you just keep getting more and more powerful with the result that I'm guessing most people will start to feel overpowered before the game is over, at which point, you're just going through the motions trying to finish things off with no real challenge from anything other than maybe the occasional boss.

There is, in this scheme, a problem because there are lawyers who have tried «hundreds of cases» and go through the motions of being in court quite well.

Finance has the advantage of being a transferable skill which is required in almost any industry or sector, so try and find out what is meaningful to you rather than just going through the motions.»

In an atmosphere filled with stress, in fierce pursuit of some unattainable vision of perfection, it's all too easy to lose all sense of meaning — to feel like you are trying very, very hard but still ending up going through the motions.

In most cases, the property has become a major annoyance in their life, it's causing a fair amount of stress and / or they're just too lazy to go through the motions of trying to sell.

I believe the people are not really trying to sell, but just go through the motions so they can stay there as long as possible.