rowing-machine love

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A gymnasium apparatus of various forms, designed for exercising the muscles used in rowing. It usually combines a sliding seat, stretchers, and oar-handles, with weights or springs so arranged as to provide sufficient resistance.

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Examples

  • A representative study of collegiate rowers, for instance, found that after eight weeks of an arduous core-exercise regimen â" added to their normal workout routines â" the rowers had great-looking abs but werenâ™t better rowers; their performance was unchanged in a rowing-machine time trial, compared with measurements before theyâ™d undertaken the extensive core routines.

    Attention Six-Pack Seekers: All Those Crunches May Not Be Working The Huffington Post News Editors 2011

  • The rowing-machine is probably the most beneficial form of mechanical home exercise that is likely to be followed faithfully.

    How to Live Rules for Healthful Living Based on Modern Science Eugene Lyman Fisk 1907

  • Orange-stick in mouth, he went around like a museum guide, introducing the beloved apparatus to the visitor under its true names and uses, the chest-weights, dumb-*bells and Indian clubs, flying-rings, a rowing-machine, the horizontal and parallel bars, the punching-bag and trapeze.

    Queed Henry Sydnor Harrison 1905

  • The introduction over, Klinker sat down tenderly on the polished seat of the rowing-machine, and addressed Doctor Queed, who stood with an academic arm thrown gingerly over the horizontal bar.

    Queed Henry Sydnor Harrison 1905

  • The sea was smooth, my rowing-machine performed its work easily, and leaving Safety Bay and Shark Island behind us, we enjoyed at our ease the panorama of all the coast scenery.

    Swiss Family Robinson 1882

  • The idea of a rowing-machine kept recurring to my brain.

    Swiss Family Robinson 1882

  • A representative study of collegiate rowers, for instance, found that after eight weeks of an arduous core-exercise regimen - added to their normal workout routines - the rowers had great-looking abs but weren't better rowers; their performance was unchanged in a rowing-machine time trial, compared with measurements before they'd undertaken the extensive core routines.

    NYT > Home Page By GRETCHEN REYNOLDS 2011

  • A representative study of collegiate rowers, for instance, found that after eight weeks of an arduous core-exercise regimen — added to their normal workout routines — the rowers had great-looking abs but weren’t better rowers; their performance was unchanged in a rowing-machine time trial, compared with measurements before they’d undertaken the extensive core routines.

    Attention Six-Pack Seekers: All Those Crunches May Not Be Working The Huffington Post News Editors 2011

  • Now Summer sounds as though she’s put me onto speakerphone, and I think I can hear a rowing-machine noise in the background.

    Confetti Confidential Holly McQueen 2010

  • Now Summer sounds as though she’s put me onto speakerphone, and I think I can hear a rowing-machine noise in the background.

    Confetti Confidential Holly McQueen 2010

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