It's an exercise using a stretch band to simulate rowing a boat. I need to know how long the exercise, or the expression, has been around.
I use several techniques to determine whether a term is an oldie or a neologism. For instance, if I can't find a term in the usu online dictionaries, then I suspect it as recent
However, I'm not entirely satisfied with such crude methods. Of course I could do better at this if I had a vast library or could afford subscription online services. However, on a fixed income I'm pretty much stuck with the free strategies; while I hate to be bothering you guys every time I need a reading
Dale's general "methodology" question is particularly timely for me, because one of my quote sources (Amazon search-inside-the-book) has recently changed in a way that makes it far less useful.
My usual sources are
google-news: free
Amazon as noted above: free, if you've bought $25 worth direct from Amazon -- not from one of their listers)
OED: expensive, but may well be free through your library, with 24-hr access
newspaperarchives.com: $50/year; more useful for finding antedatings than for recent usages
findarticles.com: free.
Sometimes helpful, but each with its limitations, are Project Gutenberg (free), Proquest (many libraries have it), and GoogleBooks (free if you have a free gmail account).
Any other ideas you might provide, for Dale's purposes or mine, would be appreciated. Thanks!
Incidentally, "band row" turns out to me one of many different kinds of "rows" using a resistance band. In all probability, therefore, the expr "band row" has been around for a very long time
I was disappointed as I had expected it to mean a fight between the members of a rock band
word: the Amazon search-inside-the-book is intriguing. To do a search of this kind, do you need to know the title of the book
Forgive me for bubbling this one back up, but in the meantime I wondder if anyone else has heard the usage; whether you consider it a neologism or merely the concatenation of two common exercise terms
