chest expander

Ah, Iowa, you'll miss them when it's back to furniture stores and chest expanders.

For example, the stretch cords on the chest expander clip on and off.

The cupboards contained more equipment, including chest expanders and rolls of elastic.

You don't need six months on the chest expander to drive the M Coupé, though.

No, then buy these chest expanders.

I struggled with chest expanders.

We had chest expanders consisting of two handles joined by round elastic which was, for safety enclosed in ruched silk.

I was looking at H.K.'s books, chest expander, the nicely kept 7-mm.

Strandpulling with a chest expander can be done for a variety of fitness purposes, not just building chest muscles.

He found himself surrounded by gym equipment: a treadmill, a pair of chest expanders, a rowing machine - but nothing he could throw at Kaspar.

The kit includes a tension bar, a chest expander with rubber cords, two dumbbells, a jump rope, two jogging weights with straps and two metal hand grips.

The chest expander has been used for medical rehabilitation since at least 1851, and they have been used in some formal physical education programs since at least the 1880s.

When a visitor inquired about the price of a volume of Shakespearean plays at a bookshop in the bazaar, the merchant suggested that he purchase a set of chest expanders instead.

The image shows a muscle-bound male wearing underpants sown with a Y-fronted design, flexing a lyre-shaped chest expander with black plastic handles and nipple-like silver washers and rivets.

He held his breath, and congratulated himself on having lain in bed sulking for the last few days rather than trying to work out his feelings on chest expanders in the ship's gym.

In 1857, the Dublin Quarterly Journal of Medical Science claimed the modern chest expander was invented and patented by Henry Cost, but does not provide the year it was invented.

By the 1920s the single strand barrier had evolved into a spring-powered five-strand device designed by Johnstone and Gleeson, but based on Gray's prototype, that resembled a strongman's chest expander.

She is fed up with his refusal to talk about his feelings, disgusted with his penchant for buying unnecessary things - extra cars, unwanted exercise equipment (barbells, lifting bench, punching bag, exercycle, chest expander, gravity boots and the like), unread self-help books and unused carpentry tools.

In seventh grade, Dave saw a picture of Arnold Schwarzenegger in a weight-lifting magazine; he bought Schwarzenegger's giant spring chest expander; he read "The Education of a Bodybuilder," written in 1977, in which Schwarzenegger discusses the regimen that made him Mr. Olympia.

Strandpulling is the general term for the practice of stretching steel springs, rubber cables or latex tubing, as a form of exercise and as a competitive sport, using a "chest expander", with many specific movements designed to target different muscles and provide progressive resistance usually, but not always, to the upper body.