twitch athlete

[RonButters at AOL.COM]

I was thinking that the TIME author was semi-metaphorically reinterpreting 
TWITCH ATHLETE to refer to the jerky action of one who is playing video games.
 
In a message dated 2/24/07 1:05:50 PM, gcohen at UMR.EDU writes:


>     "Fast" and "slow twitch athletes" evidently derive from the "fast" and 
> "slow twitch muscles." For a discussion of such muscles, see
> http://sportsmedicine.about.com/cs/exercisephysiology/a/aa080901a.htm
> 
>     I assume that the little used "twitch athlete" is a shortening of "fast 
> twitch athlete."  It really doesn't seem to make sense otherwise.  It's as if 
> an athlete would announce he's in "physical condition," with the adjective 
> "good"/"fine"/"excellent" missing.
> 
> Gerald Cohen
> 




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