FITNESS - Learn British English Vocabulary & Phrases with English Like a Native

Are you ready to do some exercise?

Hello, my name is an English

this is English like a native and I am wearing my

Workout gear that's because I'm ready to do some physical exercise

And I thought while exercising I could teach you some basic

Exercise vocabulary the kind of vocabulary that every native knows not just the specialists

So are you ready to work of course? It's very?

Important to exercise your body as much as it's important to exercise your mind

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work out

Exercise now first of all why do people exercise?

well there are three phrases that I commonly hear from people who are

Exercising on a regular basis either they want to lose

weight

lose weight

This means they want to become slimmer and less heavy so they want to lose weight

Secondly perhaps they want to tone up

to tone up means to

improve your muscle definition, or

To tone up, or they might simply just want to get fit

This means they want to improve their level of fitness

Now every session of exercise which we tend to call a workout

should begin with a warm-up a warm-up comes at the beginning of your exercise session to prepare your body for

strenuous physical exercise it normally includes light

Exercise and some stretches to make sure your muscles are ready for action

And just pay attention to the pronunciation of that word

muscles

muscles

These are muscles

Talking about Muscles which muscles the most natives know about of course we have biceps triceps

pectoral Muscles, which we tend to shorten to pecs

We have abdominal muscles which again we shortened to abs

We have gluteus maximus which is often shortened to simply groups we have thighs

Hamstrings and

calf

Muscles of course there are many more muscles in the body, but these are the common ones which most people know about

Let's now talk about the actual exercises

Typical strengthening exercises you'll hear about are sit ups

sit ups

Sit ups help to improve your abdominal muscles

smaller sit ups little pulsing sit-ups are called crunches if you turn yourself over to face the floor and

Press the floor away from yourself

This is called a press up typically in British English in American English

It's called a pushup, but we also use that here, too

so press up or

Push up now if you hold yourself in the press up position sometimes on your elbows

This is called a plank and this is meant to be held for at least thirty seconds if not more

You'll also hear about a pull-up where you reach to a bar above your head and pull yourself up to that bar

Pull-UPs can be done with an overarm grip or an underarm grip and they're really really easy

Especially when you do them in the same way that I do them

sometimes you'll see people lay back on the bench lifting heavy weights if

Someone is lay on their back on a bench lifting a weight above them. This is called a bench press

So you might be asked how much can you bench press?

This meet how much weight can you lift up when you lay down on a bench?

to build the strength in your legs, you could do a squat a

squat

You could also do some lunges

Lunges and to work out those triceps you might do some tricep dips

triceP dips

Some people refer to getting toned as getting shredded

So you shred your muscles until you become really really muscular looking and then when we're talking about losing weight

You might hear people using the phrase

shedding

To shed weight to shed the pounds is to get rid of the pounds of weight upon your body

So we shred her and we shared many

People in order to lose weight, we'll do what we call Cardio. This is short for a cardiovascular

Exercise and it's basically exercise that raises the heartrate that makes you sweat that gets you out of breath

And it helps you to lose weight fast and people would usually do things like running

Maybe they run with high knees. Maybe they run kicking their bottoms you might do some popping or some skipping

Some people do skipping with a rope

you could also do jumping Jacks which were also referred to as

Star jumps and one exercise which I absolutely hate is a burpee a burpees

Where you jump up into the air? Go straight down into a squat and kick out?

there are many activities which could cover your

cardiovascular exercise for example swimming or

cycling if you set up a sequence of exercises perhaps

Sit-ups here for one minute then you move to a different location and do

Running on the spot for a minute

and then a different location in the room to do press ups for one minute and then a different location to do burpees for

Example, and then you start the sequence again and do it a few times. This is called circuit training

circuit training now any cardiovascular

Type exercise that makes you breathe heavy because you need more breath this can be referred to as aerobic

exercise

aerobic

Exercise and finally lots of people will use equipment and weights when they are

Exercising now the weights that you hold in your hands are called dumbbells

Dumbbells if you use the long bar with the weights on the end that you can adjust and put different weights onto

This is called a barbell a barbell or I'm not sure that many natives will know the term for that particular type of weight

but it's called a barbell and

All good workouts should finish with a cool-down this will be a series of light exercises once again

and maybe some stretches just to finish off your

exercise Routine

Well, I hope you found that helpful now a little tip for those of you

Who are really serious about learning English one of the best things you can do is to repeat lessons?

So many of you I speak to forgets basic words which I have covered in lessons that they've already watched

But because they don't repeat the lessons they easily forget the vocabulary so perhaps some point next week

You can come and watch this video once again

And then if you watch it three or four times over a period of a month, then you're more likely to remember all the vocabulary

included in this video

I'm about to go and hit the showers because after all that exercise. I am very sweaty and

Probably a bit stinky as well

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