Nor is it likely to be helpful to weekend athletes.

Most of these riders are not professional riders; they're weekend athletes.

As a sports podiatrist with 14 years experience, I have seen injured athletes at all levels from the weekend athlete to the professional.

This is particularly true of weekend athletes who are injured and want to make a rapid comeback.

As a result of this, he felt that merely being a weekend athlete was not adequate to stave off heart disease.

And, they will allow you to give more than a pair of sweat socks to the weekend athlete(s) in your life.

"Some of them are my friends, middle-aged weekend athletes whose knees are shot."

He added that any serious participant in a skiing event "can't be a weekend athlete."

When should a weekend athlete be allowed to sue the owner of, say, a ski area or amusement park?

He's not a weekend athlete who had surgery, he's a professional football player.