Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Exercise or a system of exercises in which isometric muscular contraction is used to strengthen and tone muscles, performed by the exertion of effort against resistance, usually of a stationary object.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Same as
isometric exercise .
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- noun Plural form of
isometric .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- 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)
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Examples
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Although situps can be an effective stomach exercise, I firmly believe that doing stomach isometrics is much more effective.
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He was always trying new techniques, and he’d discovered something called isometrics, which meant, he said, working out against immovable objects.
Summer of Deliverance Christopher Dickey 1998
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He was always trying new techniques, and he’d discovered something called isometrics, which meant, he said, working out against immovable objects.
Summer of Deliverance Christopher Dickey 1998
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He was always trying new techniques, and he’d discovered something called isometrics, which meant, he said, working out against immovable objects.
Summer of Deliverance Christopher Dickey 1998
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He likes to include weightlifting, isometrics and core body strengthening exercises.
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Before the parties he does TM and yoga, and during the parties he does Seconals and isometrics.
The New Yorker Stories Ann Beattie 2010
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The isometrics of his ever-tight brow have bulked up the muscles around his strawberry blond eyebrows.
Shock of Gray Ted C. Fishman 2010
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You do some isometrics under the black monitor cameras before you pull on your black undress coverall.
An Experiment in Second-Person Present Victoria Janssen 2009
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Riesel stood slowly, every muscle throbbing as she performed a few isometrics before putting on clothing.
An Experiment in Second-Person Present Victoria Janssen 2009
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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.
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