"It takes advantage of a physiologic process to improve your exercise capacity and your recovery, " Ann said.

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People in this group were also the only ones who showed a significant increase in their maximum oxygen consumption (which measures the capacity for aerobic exercise) compared to the non-exercising control group.

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Had not the great writer and thinker Montesquieu himself said the republic relied on virtue, and virtue consisted in the capacity of individuals to exercise their own freely-formed judgment?

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"The device was shown to markedly improve patient's quality of life and their functional capacity, and by functional capacity I mean that they were able to exercise longer and they were able to perform more of their activities of daily living, " said lead researcher Dr. William Abraham of the University of Kentucky.

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Aerobic exercise also burns calories, helps with endurance, heart health, lung capacity, and strength.

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Regional development minister Danny Kennedy answered a number of questions relating to water supply, including Exercise Watermill, a mock incident exercise held in October 2011 to stress test Northern Ireland Water's response capacity.

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It may be necessary to exercise unusual patience and spend extra time walking recent graduates through an assignment and nurturing their capacity to motivate themselves.

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And while both ventilatory threshold and maximum capacity can be slowly increased, people have to have enough positive experiences to stick with exercise over time so they actually can boost these limits.

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