weight-bearing
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“For the average person, it’s just lifestyle modifications. Some weight-bearing exercises, some strength training.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 27, 2026
"She probably has had to reduce the amount of training she has done in between games or train in a low weight-bearing environment such as a swimming pool or anti-gravity trainer," he suggested.
From BBC • Jul. 28, 2025
While gyms and fitness studios closed during early stay-at-home orders, many slow-motion strength training studios remained open because they offered an essential rehabilitative service: weight-bearing physical therapy for pain management, osteoporosis and other conditions.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 12, 2024
To bolster weight-bearing capacity, many researchers have attempted to thicken their paper-thin designs in varying spots.
From Science Daily • Mar. 18, 2024
To get the requisite height and weight-bearing power, yet keep the pony qualities, the hardihood, the astuteness, the thought-like instancy of motion—a wit that can almost prophesy—is a problem that is being patiently worked out.
From The Welsh Pony Described in two letters to a friend by Dargan, Olive Tilford
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