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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!caen!destroyer!ubc-cs!mala.bc.ca!epp
  2. From: epp@mala.bc.ca (Lorne Epp)
  3. Newsgroups: sci.skeptic
  4. Subject: Re: Kinesiology - how I heard about it
  5. Message-ID: <1992Aug12.222526.668@mala.bc.ca>
  6. Date: 12 Aug 92 22:25:26 -0700
  7. References: <11AUG199206310035@skyblu.ccit.arizona.edu> <zlsiida.62@fs1.mcc.ac.uk> <1992Aug12.145724.12468@colorado.edu> <x94mws=.sheaffer@netcom.com>
  8. Organization: Malaspina College
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  11. In article <x94mws=.sheaffer@netcom.com>, sheaffer@netcom.com (Robert Sheaffer) writes:
  12. > Actually, I think that "kinesiology" means something like 'exercise without
  13. > motion using opposing muscles  to generate force.' Lock your fingers
  14. > together, then pull your arms apart: something like that. 
  15. >
  16.  
  17. I believe you're thinking of isometrics.
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  20. Lorne Epp                                               epp@mala.bc.ca
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