NOUN
- muscle-building exercises (or a system of musclebuilding exercises) involving muscular contractions against resistance without movement (the muscles contracts but the length of the muscle does not change)
How To Use isometrics In A Sentence
- You can also exercise some of your body muscles while playing poker - basically using isometrics and taking a brisk walk every so often as a break from the table.
- He was a physical-fitness freak: running, lifting weights and experimenting with 23)isometrics and 24)electrical impulses meant to stimulate his muscles while he slept.
- The isometrics of his ever-tight brow have bulked up the muscles around his strawberry blond eyebrows. Shock of Gray
- You do some isometrics under the black monitor cameras before you pull on your black undress coverall. An Experiment in Second-Person Present
- Before the parties he does TM and yoga, and during the parties he does Seconals and isometrics. The New Yorker Stories
- He likes to include weightlifting, isometrics and core body strengthening exercises. Hercules Ryan | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles
- Cruise calls 8 Minutes in the Morning ‘an all-new fitness program,’ but it seems like a throwback to the past since it is solidly built on a resurrection of isometrics.
- This reaction occurs during activities that require a rapid and maximum application of force for a short duration, such as during isometrics and heavy weight training.
- A twenty-year-old dancer manque did isometrics on his towel, pretending to be oblivious to the stares he attracted.
- Here, we get a slew of metaphors in service of a spectacular act of Cirque du Soleil isometrics, with biology grounding and supporting the higher mental properties, which in turn reach down to elevate the biology. Skyhooks and Tuned Decks and Bloombast (Oh My!)
