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These indoor cycling classes usually include a warm-up, sprints, "climbs" — high-resistance work — and cool-downs.
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• Building muscle in the case of some types of high-resistance exercise so you look better in and out of clothes.
THE NEW ATKINS FOR A NEW YOU Dr. Eric C. Westman 2010
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• Building muscle in the case of some types of high-resistance exercise so you look better in and out of clothes.
THE NEW ATKINS FOR A NEW YOU Dr. Eric C. Westman 2010
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Some cumulative effects phenomena, in other words, exhibit what I will call high-resistance irreversibility--the effort it would take to get back on track, if one even could figure out how, may be beyond our social and economic capacity.
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Global climate change is, in my view, the net product of numerous human and physical systems going through cumulative effects events with high-resistance irreversibility.
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Some cumulative effects phenomena, in other words, exhibit what I will call high-resistance irreversibility--the effort it would take to get back on track, if one even could figure out how, may be beyond our social and economic capacity.
Archive 2007-03-01 2007
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Global climate change is, in my view, the net product of numerous human and physical systems going through cumulative effects events with high-resistance irreversibility.
Archive 2007-03-01 2007
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For each kite, winches release a pair of high-resistance cables to control direction and angle.
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For each kite, winches release a pair of high-resistance cables to control direction and angle.
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Comments posted by the latter are then routed to secret sites overseas where the thread undergoes intense scrutiny; the data bytes are subjected to extreme temperature changes, and high-resistance diodes, putting the electrons in various stressed positions.
Think Progress » ‘Fact Sheet’ On Clinton Interview Gets It Wrong 2006
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