| Saturday's stage was only a warm-up in comparison to this, the toughest stage of the Pyrenees if not the entire Tour. |
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| Joseph offers a checklist of twelve rituals as part of the first stage or warm-up. |
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| This is sure to be great entertainment, and a warm-up for the big bash on Sunday night in the Guild. |
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| Mr Cullen was one of a couple of warm-up acts who took to the stage to fire up the crowd for the leader's address. |
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| The only problem, of course, is that it's never a good idea to use a genius as your warm-up act. |
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| He even toured as a warm-up act with the Harlem Globetrotters basketball side. |
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| The first week we filmed I had to ask the warm-up guy to tone the audience down. |
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| After their warm-up session, they practically did everything associated with wrestling. |
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| The Broncos, who need points to pull away from the threat of relegation, suffered a blow in the pre-match warm-up. |
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| It is a steady-state, fat-burning workout, which means after the warm-up, exercisers stay in their target heart rate zones until the cool-down. |
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| Yet we hate the aching knees, ankles and Achilles tendons, the elaborate warm-up and warm-down times, the endless stretching. |
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| Let's kick off with some suitably chilled warm-up music, while you pitch your virtual tent and skin up a virtual fat one. |
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| Begin each lifting session with a 5 to 10 minute warm-up session by rope skipping. |
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| An uninspired second-half display took the gloss off a promising opening period, but pre-tournament warm-up matches often end that way. |
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| It's almost as if all the initial chat and wine is a warm-up to the nitty-gritty, the heart of the matter, which is sharing secrets. |
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| Most bush pilots recommend leaving cowl flaps closed in bitterly cold weather, especially during the warm-up. |
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| We saw one ball bounce off it during a pitcher's warm-up, and it caromed past the mound almost to the first baseman's position! |
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| A nervous hush descended on the famous patch of turf as the sisters went through their warm-up routine. |
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| In a warm-up game against South Africa, Smith made 57 and in the process made the World Cup attack look distinctly ordinary. |
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| The Central Americans have lined up warm-up friendlies against fellow finalists before their tournament opener. |
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| You team up with a partner and after the warm-up, you do two circuits of 15 different exercises. |
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| Pittman injured herself during a warm-up before her Zurich race, landing awkwardly after clearing a hurdle. |
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| She tore cartilage in her knee on August 6 as she did a routine jump over the hurdle during warm-up for her last pre-Olympic race in Zurich. |
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| There are usually warm-up times for instruments, flight controls, hydraulics, accessory cases, etc. |
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| His Chelsea clubmate was in line for his second World Cup appearance, but injured himself in the pre-match warm-up. |
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| As a perfectionist student, I hated being made an example of every time I couldn't complete warm-up exercises in PE class. |
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| The contracted fees from the television station for the warm-up matches will be commensurably less. |
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| The event is the only major warm-up tournament for the women's team before October's national interprovincials in Napier. |
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| I am happy to report that, in the event, the warm-up exercise worked rather well. |
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| I give them a center warm-up, and then center work such as tendus combined with pirouettes, as well as a fondu exercise and adagio. |
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| To a capacity crowd, they slip easily and eagerly into the role of warm-up band with a more than healthy gusto. |
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| The participants were permitted to go through their normal warm-up routine and take as many as 10 shots before beginning the pretest. |
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| Khan said probables for the Pakistan team will play three four-day warm-up matches to prepare for the England series. |
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| A glass of Prosecco kicks off lunch, and clear mushroom soup with fresh tomatoes or appetizers from the buffet offer a warm-up during half-time. |
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| As the swarm of go-karts completes its final warm-up lap and hurtles across the starting line, the race is on. |
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| A proper warm-up literally warms and lubricates the muscles, thereby greatly reducing the risk of pulls and strains. |
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| On many occasions, swimmers jumped in with all of their clothes on-and disrobed to their suits during warm-up. |
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| The 100 back seemed to serve as a great warm-up for her main event of the evening. |
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| I do my warm-up set, then add a little bit more weight and I'm completely done after about 4 reps. |
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| These normally start with a warm-up game of dodgeball or wheelbarrow races. |
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| This is a short comedy intended as a warm-up act for the main attraction. |
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| Andy was soon offered work as a warm-up man on a number of television shows, before coming to the attention of the big bosses at the movie studio. |
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| I started off as the warm-up act, then progressed to the actual league. |
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| The Charisma duet and solo performer Luci are some of the warm-up acts. |
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| Normally, you would never go into a quarter-final of any competition without a warm-up game. |
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| After a warm-up, we learn how to shake our upper bodies while jiggling our hips, which is not an easy feat. |
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| Trek mounted up and worked 18 year old Anni into a warm-up jog towards the trail on the hill. |
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| For a warm-up dive you could try Harbour Reef, a slab of rock that juts out into the sea, extending the south entrance wall of the harbour. |
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| Traditionally at warm-up, teams keep to their respective ends of the pitch. |
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| Four years ago she won two medals in Malaysia, but only in a warm-up competition. |
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| The classes generally begin with some warm-up calisthenics, such as jumping jacks, simulated jump rope and air punches. |
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| The dual ignition system also allows for an extremely lean fuel-air mixture and late ignition timing during warm-up. |
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| We typically recommend exercising the rotators before a workout, however, as a warm-up before moving on to heavier weights. |
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| The class consists of a warm-up, 40 minutes of exercises for bums, tums and thighs, followed by a cool-down and stretching session. |
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| The Tall Blacks fly out to Europe next week, but at this stage their schedule of warm-up games is still incomplete. |
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| At the gallery, he played a warm-up tango by the Argentine, Astor Piazzola, before launching into 14 minutes of unaccompanied Bach. |
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| Exercise without a proper warm-up is very taxing to the muscles, tendons, ligaments, and joints. |
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| The holiday season is merely your warm-up to that marathon known as tax season. |
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| About 10,000 England fans travelled to the World Cup warm-up match in Amsterdam, including about 2,000 ticketless supporters. |
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| I start getting togged up at 6.50 pm, but there's a vocal warm-up at 6.30 pm and I'm happy to be missing out on that! |
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| Ideally, I try to warm-up to a tone or two above the performance's highest note. |
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| I actually prefer to do a couple of sets of a warm-up exercise for the target muscle, priming my body for the intense work to come. |
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| In a situation like this, ideally you would have had a warm-up game and if there were any small glitches, they could be ironed out. |
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| Professional clubs use their pre-season warm-up to blood the graduates, triallists and wannabes. |
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| Waving his hand, he shooed us off before returning to bark at the rest of the class to warm-up. |
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| As the final tune-up for the ACC Trophy, the Bahrain team were in Colombo on June 3 for three warm-up matches against local club sides. |
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| Classroom monitors hand out the pastels and Manila paper for the warm-up exercises. |
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| He is simply looking to confirm his recovery from a hamstring tweak sustained in the warm-up game against Halifax. |
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| In a World Cup warm-up game, the players held up a banner saying the islands were argentinean. |
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| Britain's victory hopes took a setback during the warm-up when the penalty corner specialist Ben Hawes strained a calf muscle and was replaced by Jerome Goudie. |
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| The Hibs groundsman declared it unplayable, and the referee indicated during the warm-up that the match would be completed only if there was no more rain. |
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| Early comers to Longford can enjoy a festival warm-up night. |
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| After a few warm-up climbs on the top ropes, I set out on my mission. |
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| With the glorious weather ideal for the event, many of the biathletes were using the event as a warm-up for the following weekend's Championships. |
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| The Crickets came on stage and Sonny Curtis struck a chord, part warm-up, part check the guitar is plugged in, part, perhaps, unconscious pre-performance ritual. |
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| Following the first warm-up session held to gauge interest in the scheme, sessions will be held in the new year in rock and pop to jazz, swing, Latin, big band and reggae. |
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| Start with a ten-minute warm-up of jumping rope, jogging, or calisthenics. |
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| Weary muscles complain mournfully, yet the heart's spirit overcomes sensations of pain, knowing that limberness shall soon follow a quick morning warm-up and stretch. |
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| Precede your weight training with a light whole-body cardio warm-up as usual, and do some light sets of the first exercise to loosen up your muscles. |
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| What if his muscles started to cramp due to a lack of warm-up exercise? |
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| As international cricket tours become increasingly condensed, the scheduling of warm-up and practice matches is ever more complicated and important. |
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| Aberfeldie last year learned the cost of attacking through one player when Minton-Connell strained his thigh muscle in the warm-up before the grand final. |
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| This game may have been formally billed as a World Cup warm-up, but none of the 60,000 crowd basking in Cardiff sun were in any doubt that this was a real test match. |
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| Then, as you take the warm-up stroke, shift your vision from the cue ball to the object ball, concentrating on your choice spot. |
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| Keep a sharp eye on the referee during warm-up to check out his mood. |
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| After a quick, but energetic warm-up, it's into a dumb-bell workout to strengthen and tone arms, with squats worked in too. |
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| Participants who came early were treated to warm-up exercises by Eugene Jazzercise and fiddle music by Acoustic Etouffee. |
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| My friend is playing in the warm-up band for the big show tonight. |
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| During a warm-up activity in the deep end of the pool, Reyes could not stay afloat. |
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| Drivers are allowed 5 minutes for warm-up before the race starts. |
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| I usually start running slowly for a warm-up and then hit my stride a few minutes into the run. |
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| The staff had cleverly managed to save some honk by showing an old, adult, Billy Connolly video instead of employing a warm-up act. |
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| Findley and Edson Buddle impressed as a forward combination during the USA's 3-1 win over Australia in their final warm-up international. |
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| The stars gathered before the show in the Tapis Rouge tent for bubbly, Mideastern noshes and warm-up weirdness from fine-feathered bird-girls. |
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| He was even made the subject of tribute T-shirts, which Liverpool players inadvisably wore in the warm-up for a match at Wigan. |
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| Before testing, subjects performed standardized warm-up trials consisted of 6 minutes on an ergometric bicycle followed by a thorough explanation of the test procedure. |
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| Not to mention that Larry Poons was making remarkable drip paintings around 1970, underrated works for which Steir's paintings look rather like warm-up exercises. |
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