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isometric exercise
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun isometric exercise has 1 sense
- isometric exercise(n = noun.act) isometrics - muscle-building exercises (or a system of musclebuilding exercises) involving muscular contractions against resistance without movement (the muscles contracts but the length of the muscle does not change); Array is a kind of exercise, exercising, physical exercise, physical exertion, workout
CIDE DICTIONARY
isometric exercise, n.
A system of exercise to strengthen specific muscles of the body by pushing parts of the body (such as the two hands) strongly against each other, or against a fixed object, so that the muscles are strongly stressed, but are stretched only a little. It is claimed to produce strength in the muscles thus exercised. Also called isometrics . [PJC]
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