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"If they are off work for any period of time, workers can become deconditioned.

He claimed years ago that deconditioned foot muscles, caused by restrictive shoes, were the biggest factor in injuries.

"Actually," he said, "quite a few studies have shown that short duration activity can have a positive impact on fitness, especially in deconditioned individuals."

This course emphasises programme design for all levels of fitness, from the deconditioned to athletes desiring sports-specific training.

Their bodies then become deconditioned."

But he's not the norm, and some fitness experts worry about pro athletes not having proper training to work with deconditioned Joes.

"A deconditioned muscle," Ms. Cornish said, "isn't sufficiently strong to generate enough force to create a severe injury."

Subsequently a strengthening exercise program should be designed to restore the deconditioned cervical, shoulder girdle, and upper trunk musculature.

Schneider thinks elderly patients who are boarded for extended periods of time in the emergency department may experience a decline in function; their muscles becoming "deconditioned."

But, they say, speed and strength and endurance do return, even in deconditioned athletes, some of whose lab test results look like those of a sedentary person.

"A lot of people think that because CFS patients, as they see it, 'lie about all day' their bodies become deconditioned and that would explain it.

A 25-year department veteran, he is also a fitness buff (runner, skier, wrestler, weight lifter) who tends to use insider terms like "deconditioned" for "out of shape."

Problems also can arise in obese people who are sedentary and then jump into a rigorous exercise program, which can overload a deconditioned body, he says, possibly leading to knee injuries, stress fractures or other problems.

Studies by scientists at NASA, who used bed rest to simulate weightlessness in space, found that as a result of long periods of bed rest, a person's entire musculoskeletal and cardiovascular system becomes deconditioned.

The classic cycle is someone who is very active athletically in their teens and twenties, who gets married, has a serious job, buys a house, has a child or two and because of all these other demands, gradually becomes deconditioned.

A thorough upper-body examination commonly produces many significant findings, including a deconditioned state with a round-shouldered posture, the head and neck thrust forward, a rigidity of the upper spine and an inability to move the neck, shoulders or wrist normally.

With the mountain of research emphasizing the health benefits of exercise, including a 1996 report by the Surgeon General, club operators say they believe that membership will continue to grow as more people are recruited from what they euphemistically refer to as the "deconditioned" market.

"The deconditioned musculature of the foot is the greatest issue leading to injury," said Dr. Gerard Hartmann, an exercise physiologist in Limerick, Ireland, who works with Ms. Radcliffe and who was consulted by Nike on the Free's design.