Hints and tips:
...If I get venison, I ask for a leg to be seamed into muscles. That way is cheaper. The muscles I turn into kebabs or steaks....
...The thigh-high, zip-up bootees plug into a lithium-ion battery to inflate, dynamically pumping pressure around the legs and feet....
...An arsenal of techniques whip, cajole and stretch the muscles and ligaments. As cheekbones are sculpted and jawlines sharpened, whole-body relaxation sets in....
...Her body is dotted with blue Slendertone electro-pads, which zap the muscles into tensing....
...A grilled chicken thigh was cooked with consummate skill: the skin dry, crisp, golden and bubbling, the flesh cooked slowly enough to feel almost confitted. An ideal balance and not easy to achieve....
...She glumly realised it no longer fitted, as her body has shrunk in places due to muscle loss and thickened in others....
...We’d slip out at dawn, be back by dusk and ease our tired muscles in the wood-fired sauna (extra points for leaping into the powdery snowbanks and shrieking like a macaque)....
...Local buses run infrequently but can be caught from the rail stations to various points. 1,000 Steps Good for: Cardio, thigh muscles, access to a well-trammelled walk Not so good for: Tranquillity (when...
...My muscles also ached more than usual the next day....
...It’s not only this choreographed flexing of foreign secretary muscle — about as subtle as rolling up your shirt and kissing your bicep — that evokes Thatcher....
...At the end of my first day on the Chico Basin ranch, I was certain that every muscle in my body ached. I had bruises on the insides of my calves and thighs, and across my entire bum....
...Only the title tells you how many people comprise this seething heap of elbows, breasts, hands and thighs, although the woman’s face at the centre — serene, Madonna-like — prevents collapse into abstraction...
...Whitlock has “slow twitch” muscles, rather than the explosive “fast twitch” muscle fibres that sprinters have to achieve explosive speed and power....
...He snapped street protesters from afar as they swarmed the streets of Dhaka and up close, studying the tension in their faces and the muscles in their clenched arms....
...For my first exercise, the atlas stones, I have to haul a squishy 20kg ball on to my thighs and roll it up my body before depositing it on a crash mat....
...It’s a funny cut, packed with piggish flavour, but composed of at least three textures of muscle and lots of interesting connective physiology....
...Aching muscles and painful thighs/back/arms are offset by the delight of seeing logs build up for next winter’s fire — and maybe even the winter after that — and the garden emerges from its tousled sleep...
...Also Leonardesque is the way Mary grasps her baby’s thigh with one hand and entwines his hand with her other....
...Several more studies have looked at muscle fatigue....
...This is the bit of tissue that connects your thigh bone to your shinbone, effectively holding the upper and lower leg together....
...Jutting shoulders, pointed elbows, suggestions of muscles, tendons, bone; head thrust forward, spiky black hair, bright red lips, deep-set eyes are all punkish and alluring in “Self-portrait in Crouching...
...I keep replaying the time I placed my hand on a female colleague’s inner thigh during a performance review but honestly, I thought it was my own inner thigh....
...When Fogel complains that regular injections are causing severe bruising, Rodchenkov says in his thick Russian accent: “You can inject into your thigh muscle but better to the ass.”...
...Most wore towering gladiator stilettos which strapped up to mid-thigh and piles of shiny necklaces, a la B A Baracus (of The A Team)....
...He puts one hand around my waist, the other around the thigh of my outstretched leg. “Now lift your other leg,” he instructs. I kick him in the groin and he almost drops me....
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