weight-bearing
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adjective
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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
That means weight-bearing exercises and diligent strength training—something many women skip.
From Slate • Feb. 27, 2025
This was particularly for weight-bearing and high-impact exercises.
From BBC • Dec. 30, 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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