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By working multiple large muscle groups at the same time, it forces blood and oxygen to move around our bodies, keeping our heart rate elevated nearly the entire time, i love this weighted rope specifically as opposed to a non-weighted one because the slight increase in weight will create more resistance as you jump, which is crucial for muscle toning and strength building benefits.

Jilliann Schembri

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Perfect sleep is like having a puzzle, and you need all the right pieces, people who have insomnia, they're missing one of those sleep hygiene pieces. When you make your recommendation, like a muscle relaxation, maybe that's not the thing that they were missing. Maybe sound wasn't the key part. Maybe you need more of that weighted blanket.

Rajkumar Dasgupta

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Consider your favorite forest or hillside and imagine helicopters dropping heavily weighted wires and clear cutting everything in their path, plowing into the soil, but also taking out every bee, butterfly, bird, bush and bear, we wouldn't allow that on land, not for a minute, but this is what's happening in the ocean all day, every day.

Amanda Vincent

Found on CNN
2 years ago

It was going on for over two hours, it just got worse and worse, everyone's like, you just can't breathe, you just feel like there's a weighted blanket on you.

Nick Johnson

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Legacy is part of the response, what’s important is that companies make sure they have really unbiased interview processes that are not heavily weighted towards junior levels ... making sure that companies are hiring from everywhere.

Oliver Kent-Braham

Found on Reuters
2 years ago

That's also probably an ancillary benefit, is if somebody is weighted in a particular stock, it allows them to diversify their portfolio, since you're limiting your subsequent investment, you may also not be maximizing your profit.

Virginia Canter

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

A' grounded feeling' due to the use of weighted blankets may be attributed to the psychoanalytic' holding environment' theory, which states that touch is a basic need that provides calming and comfort, weighted blankets are designed to work similar to the way tight swaddling helps newborns feel snug and secure.

Fariha Abbasi-Feinberg

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Weighted blankets shouldn't be used for toddlers under 2 years old, as it may increase the risk of suffocation, it's important for parents to always consult their pediatrician before trying a weighted blanket.

Fariha Abbasi-Feinberg

Found on CNN
3 years ago

A diet without meat products can reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 49 percent and water-scarcity weighted water footprint by 19 percent.

Galen Karlan-Mason

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Carefully weighted wisdom costs less.

Mariana Fulger

added by MF
3 years ago

Younger people should be concerned for two reasons. You are not immune or safe from getting seriously ill. Even though when you look at the total numbers, it's overwhelmingly weighted towards the elderly and those with underlying conditions. But the virus isn't a mathematical formula. There are going to be people who are young who are going to wind up getting seriously ill. So protect yourself.

Anthony Fauci

Found on CNN
4 years ago

As soon as the knock happens, it's hard to explain, it's like a weighted vest is taken immediately off your shoulders. It's pretty special.

Steve Hutchinson

Found on CNN
4 years ago

With positioning in equities, bonds and energy all heavily weighted to this outcome, the resulting correction from a lack of Powell love could be both ugly and emotional.

Jeffrey Halley

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

The fee was weighted towards recovering our investment rather than being in line with Eskom's situation. In that context the fee was too large.

Kevin Sneader

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

The addition of Argentina and Saudi Arabia will add diversification to MSCI emerging market indices that are increasingly weighted to South Asian and tech heavy markets such as China, South Korea and Taiwan.

Todd Rosenbluth

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

We had large, weighted bags for dumping documents, the problem was that there were just too many documents for us to destroy in such a short time. The North Koreans got a lot of documents.

Don Peppard

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

If there's more pressure coming from the litigation side, as in higher cost, then we need to manage RWA (risk-weighted assets) further down. We do have the contingency plans in place to cope with those situations.

Deutsche Bank CFO Schenck

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

The movie is going to make money, if you go back and look at past 'Ice Ages,' the share of international has always been weighted very heavily.

Chris Aronson

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

With the nature of the Canadian system and the exposure that the Canadian banks have, if we were to raise the leverage ratio to as high as perhaps some other countries, we're going to start to undermine the risk-weighted aspect of the capital framework.

Jeremy Rudin

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

So on current measures, we expect major UK banks to fund no less than 13.5 percent of risk weighted assets with Tier 1 equity, after a long march to build capital strength, UK banks are within a hair's breadth of that today. And the rewards of greater resilience are being reaped.

John Vickers

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

When we assess the over 30 percent decline in oil since early November, much of it is attributable to the appreciation in the trade-weighted USD.

Morgan Stanley

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

There is an FX problem, and it may get worse, when we assess the over 30 percent decline in oil since early November, much of it is attributable to the appreciation in the trade-weighted USD.

Morgan Stanley

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

While policymakers are still trying to maintain the trade-weighted (yuan) exchange rate in a stable range, we now anticipate that they will transition towards targeting a depreciation in the NEER (nominal effective exchange rate) about two quarters earlier than initially expected, this move will help policymakers to still cut interest rates to manage deflationary pressures, but will imply further depreciation of the yuan (against the dollar).

Morgan Stanley

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

On his appointment, he needs to clearly indicate that the core IB will not form a bigger proportion of the group RWAs (risk-weighted assets) than under the current strategy as investors are unlikely (to) take a growing investment bank positively.

Chintan Joshi

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

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