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push-up and can
For added difficulty this can be done faster or slower, or more exaggerated and to the effect of a push-up, or down stairs.
Many of the push-up variations can be done using one arm instead of two.
One can move on to the standard push-up after progress is made.
While this phenomenon is destructive for Bipolar junction transistors working in the usual way, it can be used to push-up further the current and voltage limits of a device working in avalanche mode by limiting its time duration: also, the switching speed of the device is not negatively affected.

push-up and be
In any variation of a push-up, a person will be lifting about 65 % of his or her body weight.
To do this variation, the body's center of gravity must be kept over the hands while performing the push-up by leaning forward while the legs are elevated in the air, which requires great strength and a high level of balance.
Nowadays, it might also be worn as a push-up bra under a low-backed dress, or as a camisole for outer wear.

push-up and by
A push-up, or in British English a press-up, is a common calisthenics exercise performed in a prone position by raising and lowering the body using the arms.
One-arm push-up in extended position by US Army employee
In 1991, the push-up Wonderbra became a sensation in the UK, although it had been sold there since 1964 under license by the Gossard division of Courtaulds Textiles.

push-up and starting
Another extremely difficult variation is to perform a push-up using only hands, without resting the feet on the floor, i. e. starting from and returning to the planche position.

push-up and at
Then at a push-up contest between the Ultimate Warrior and Bravo, Hart and Bravo invited a large 460 pound man from the audience — later known as Earthquake — into the ring to sit on the contestants ' backs.

push-up and with
Raising the hands with the aid of push-up bars or a dumbbell allows for greater ROM ( range of motion ) providing further stress for the muscles.
" Maltese push-ups " are a gymnastic variation of the push-up, in which the hands are positioned closer to the hips ( as opposed to the pectorals ), but with an extremely great distance between them.
The exercise begins with the hands on either platform supporting the body, then the subject drops to the ground and explosively rebounds with a push-up, extending the torso and arms completely off the ground and returning the hands to the platforms.
Another is simply an explosive push-up where a person attempts to push quickly and with enough force to raise his or her hands several centimeters off the ground, with the body completely suspended on the feet for a moment, a variation of the drop push.
The most basic tools require the user to physically touch the device with every push-up.
She often wears low-cut tops with push-up bras to expose lots of cleavage while playing poker.

push-up and legs
In the " full push-up ", the back and legs are straight and off the floor.

push-up and wide
Animation of a full push-up ( the wide positioning of the hands increases the push-up's use of chest muscles as opposed to arm muscles )

push-up and .
Five of these done daily for about a week will develop the strength for one push-up.
He was awarded the rank of Private First Class out of boot camp and became the push-up champion of his battalion.
The American English term push-up was first used between 1905 and 1910, while the British English term press-up was first recorded in 1928.
While the push-up primarily targets the muscles of the chest, arms, and shoulders, support required from other muscles results in a wider range of muscles integrated into the exercise.
There are several variations besides the common push-up.
Thus we see that in a Hindu push-up, the head and hips go in circles rather than up and down.
The simple set of exercises of dand-baithak ( push-up and squats ) practiced in the villages of India has a beneficial effect on the spine.
The American College of Sports Medicine ( 2000 ) recommends using a push-up test to examine endurance on the upper-body musculature.
The guillotine push-up is a form of push-up exercise done from an elevated position ( either hands on elevated platforms or traditionally medicine balls ) wherein the practitioner lowers his chest, head, and neck ( thus the name ) past the plane of the hands.
The backhanded push-up is a form of push-ups performed using the back of the hands, rather than the palms.

itself and can
Similarly experience itself can be conventionalized so that people react to certain preconceived clues for behavior without awareness of the vitality of their experiential field.
When words can be used in a more fresh and primitive way so that they strike with the force of sights and sounds, when tones of sound and colors of paint and the carven shape all strike the sensibilities with an undeniable force of data in and of themselves, compelling the observer into an attitude of attention, all this imitates the way experience itself in its deepest character strikes upon the door of consciousness and clamors for entrance.
It can project long-range goals for itself.
Precisely at the moment when it has lost its vision the mind of the community turns out from itself in a search for the ontological standard whereby it can measure itself.
This means that the inception of change itself can begin only when the factors conducive to change have already become more powerful than those anchoring the existent form in being.
The most reaction can achieve is stasis, and a stasis that can be maintained only by the expenditure of an effort which ultimately exhausts itself.
A rich nation can for a time, without noticeable damage to itself, pursue a course of self-indulgence, making its single goal the material ease and comfort of its own citizens -- thus repudiating its own spiritual and material stake in a peaceful and prosperous society of nations.
It can manifest itself before discharge from service, or it can come out years later.
There is even some question whether the U.S. can any longer defend itself against an initiative by the Left.
If there is anything which we can do in the executive branch of the Government to speed up the processes by which we come to decisions on matters on which we must act promptly, that in itself would be a major contribution to the conduct of our affairs.
The selection of the wrong tools can mean waste, at best, and at worst an unwanted inflammation of the problem itself.
It can then grow steadily as it proves itself and as the need for it is demonstrated.
If that's done, the house can be designed and oriented for best operation, and this can mean savings both in the size of equipment and in the cost of the house itself.
Even though I have always had a genius for `` throwing myself '' into every role and `` playing it for all it's worth '', no actress can be expected to do her best work when her fortune, her reputation, her livelihood, her home and her nation itself are all imperilled.
The population can thereby replenish itself and actually grow larger.
On the contrary, even in the heart of `` the Bible belt '' itself, as can be attested by any one who is called to work there, the industrial and technological revolutions have long been under way, together with the corresponding changes in man's picture of himself and his world.
Nor can any man save himself by good works or by a commendable `` moral life '', although such works are the natural fruits and evidences of a saving faith already received and naturally expressing itself through such avenues.
and by deriving legitimate decision backward from whatever may conceivably or possibly or probably result, whether by anyone's doing or by accident, it finds itself driven to inaction, to non-political action in politics and non-military action in military affairs, and to the not very surprising discovery that there are now no distinctions on which the defense of justice can possibly be based.
The part can lend itself to serious treatment ; ;
Prisoners brought to the dock accused of murder or accident say they cannot remember, and reading the accounts of their testimony you cannot believe that the mind can remove, absent itself, unsee.

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