Some of them, in fact, get their heaviest workout in the off-season: a gardener's books.

He's doing bench presses and he told Dave that he always sits in the whirlpool after a heavy workout, so he'll be a while.

They never, ever last, and as winter is when they get the heaviest workout, they could well end up in bits before the year is out.

Taking the President's points in order, "simplicity," too, got a heavy workout.

Concentrates should not be fed to horses within one hour before or after a heavy workout.

However, water may need to be temporarily limited in quantity when a horse is very hot after a heavy workout.

In a departure from the last two off-seasons, Brosius rested for the first six weeks before beginning his heavy workouts.

The odd-couple cliche got a heavy workout in news stories about the sudden flowering of bipartisan comity.

Even talking under four gravities was the equivalent of a heavy workout.

Mr. Sharpton's jawbone is still getting a heavy workout these days, whether in politics, entertainment or on his cellphone.