isokinetic exercise

[ ahy-soh-ki-net-ik, -kahy- ]

/ ˌaɪ soʊ kɪˈnɛt ɪk, -kaɪ- /

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noun

exercise or a program of exercises to increase muscular strength, power, and endurance based on lifting, pulling, or pushing variable weight or resistance at a constant speed.

any specific exercise of this type.

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Origin of isokinetic exercise

First recorded in 1955–60; iso- + kinetic

Words nearby isokinetic exercise

isohyet, isoiconia, isoimmunization, isoionic point, isokeraunic, isokinetic exercise, isolable, isolatable, isolate, isolated, isolated camera

How to use isokinetic exercise in a sentence

Any plans to grow her exercise movement must, she insists, remain “completely organic.”
How Taryn Toomey’s ‘The Class’ Became New York’s Latest Fitness Craze|Lizzie Crocker|January 9, 2015|DAILY BEAST
In the last year, her fusion exercise class has attracted a cult following and become de rigueur among the celebrity set.
How Taryn Toomey’s ‘The Class’ Became New York’s Latest Fitness Craze|Lizzie Crocker|January 9, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Such is her burgeoning popularity Toomey is looking to employ more instructors to lead her highly personalized exercise classes.
How Taryn Toomey’s ‘The Class’ Became New York’s Latest Fitness Craze|Lizzie Crocker|January 9, 2015|DAILY BEAST
A lot of people ring in the New Year with vows to lose weight and exercise.
How Skinny Is Too Skinny? Israel Bans ‘Underweight’ Models|Carrie Arnold|January 8, 2015|DAILY BEAST

Frustrating as regulars find these fair-weather exercise interlopers, they were also all beginners once, he says.
How to Survive the New Year ‘Gympocalypse’|Tim Teeman|January 6, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Variety is admissible only in addition to the original exercise, but should not be substituted for it.
Expressive Voice Culture|Jessie Eldridge Southwick
The designs of Russia have long been proverbial; but the exercise of the new art of printing may assign them new features.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXIX. January, 1844. Vol. LV.|Various
The exercise of learning the names of the twenty-four Presidents is a good one for this purpose.
Assimilative Memory|Marcus Dwight Larrowe (AKA Prof. A. Loisette)
Why did he not exercise more precaution when investigating anything so suspicious as a concealed fire?
Raw Gold|Bertrand W. Sinclair
When a man's in clink, his nag gets nothing but mild exercise till his rightful rider gets out.
Raw Gold|Bertrand W. Sinclair

Medical definitions for isokinetic exercise

isokinetic exercise

[ ī′sō-kə-nĕt′ĭk, -kī- ]

Exercise performed using a specialized apparatus that provides variable resistance to a movement, so that no matter how much effort is exerted, the movement takes place at a constant speed.