Definitions
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb In an
anaerobic manner; in a way that does not requireoxygen . Generally used ofmetabolic processes.
Etymologies
Sorry, no etymologies found.
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word anaerobically.
Examples
-
When you are exercising anaerobically, that is, making your cells work harder than you can deliver oxygen to them, they limp along by dumping 3-carbon molecules in the form of lactic acid so they can keep burning sugar inefficiently.
-
When you are exercising anaerobically, that is, making your cells work harder than you can deliver oxygen to them, they limp along by dumping 3-carbon molecules in the form of lactic acid so they can keep burning sugar inefficiently.
-
For muscles to build and strengthen, you do need to lift enough weight and do enough repetitions for the muscle to fatigue or go to failure in 90 seconds or less because you have to be working anaerobically for the proper muscle fibers to be activated.
Jill S. Brown: A Weighty Issue: Surprising Research on Lifting Light vs. Lifting Heavy Jill S. Brown 2010
-
For muscles to build and strengthen, you do need to lift enough weight and do enough repetitions for the muscle to fatigue or go to failure in 90 seconds or less because you have to be working anaerobically for the proper muscle fibers to be activated.
Jill S. Brown: A Weighty Issue: Surprising Research on Lifting Light vs. Lifting Heavy Jill S. Brown 2010
-
As food and other organic waste decomposes anaerobically in the landfill, it releases methane, a greenhouse gas that's more than 20 times as potent as carbon dioxide.
-
And that doesn't include the calories burned anaerobically.
-
As food and other organic waste decomposes anaerobically in the landfill, it releases methane, a greenhouse gas that's more than 20 times as potent as carbon dioxide.
-
As food and other organic waste decomposes anaerobically in the landfill, it releases methane, a greenhouse gas that's more than 20 times as potent as carbon dioxide.
-
And that doesn't include the calories burned anaerobically.
-
And that doesn't include the calories burned anaerobically.
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.