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Flexibility

Fitness; Workouts

Being able to move easily for daily activity and exercise without tightness, soreness, or injury. A tight muscle is a weak muscle.

Free weights

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Weights not attached to a machine nor driven by cables or chains. Barbells and dumbbells are examples of free weights.

Glucose

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A sugar, the usual form in which carbohydrates are assimilated by the body.

Osteoporosis

Fitness; Workouts

A condition that affects especially older women and is characterised by decrease in bone mass with decreased density and enlargement of bone spaces producing porosity and fragility.

Overpronation

Fitness; Workouts

Excessive inward foot motion during running that can lead to injury. Learn how to choose running shoes.

Overtraining

Fitness; Workouts

Doing so much exercise over time that your body can't recover. You feel weak, tired, and sore, but you don't want to stop working out. Also, see "burn-out."

The 2 pairs of muscles in the chest that work to pull the upper arms toward or across the chest. The pectoralis major covers the chest from the top of the arm to the collarbone, down to the sternum ...