calisthenics
IPA: kæɫʌsθˈɛnɪks
noun
- (in the plural) Gymnastic exercises under the participation of a (surface-wise) multitude of muscles and often minimal equipment (thus, usually bodyweight exercises) with a stress on stamina.
- (in the singular) A system of such exercises.
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Examples of "calisthenics" in Sentences
- Dorset Calisthenics College is also run in Boronia.
- Calisthenics is primarily oriented towards young girls.
- I said yoga is a calisthenics incorporating meditation.
- It involved two weeks of lectures and physical calisthenics.
- They often focus on military style calisthenics and group runs.
- The history of calisthenics is linked to Greco Roman gymnastics.
- In addition, this stage includes various calisthenics, and walking.
- Her father trained her in calisthenics before school every morning.
- Calisthenics was introduced into Victorian State Schools in the 1930s.
- Australian calisthenics came to prominence during the Victorian Gold Rush.
- He was so clumsy he couldn't even do the side-straddle-hop in calisthenics.
- Body weight drills such as calisthenics and plyometrics keep your nervous system sharp.
- I do calisthenics, which is basically using your own body weight, like you do in yoga, to strengthen your core.
- I am a big proponent on implementing training methods such as calisthenics, plyometrics, and various other body resisted movements.
- As freshmen we hadn’t actually attended them, but the main feature of the night was called calisthenics, and it was some cheesy aerobics routine.
- We come now to what I may call the calisthenics of the business, exercises which may be roughly compared to the technical exercises necessary in learning to play a musical instrument.
- I heard Horton ask how many participants have his P90X program, and a good many hands went up among the hundred or so runners stretching and limbering up, doing what we used to call calisthenics before fitness became a multibillion-dollar industry
- They were not allowed to learn dancing; they had no outdoor games at all, not even croquet -- nothing whatever to exhilarate them and develop them physically except an hour's "deportment," the very mildest kind of calisthenics, in the big class-room once a fortnight, and the daily making of their little beds.
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