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- Hello, this is Jack from tofluency.com
and welcome to this video
where you're going to learn,
words and phrases in English
related to working out and exercising.
Now we use the word workout very often,
especially in American English.
And this just means to exercise,
especially if you go to a gym.
Now, the following footage,
is going to show you a woman called Emily,
and she is working out in
lots of different ways.
And I think this is really useful because,
you're going to hear me,
use words and phrases related to this,
while watching Emily,
using these exercises,
and doing the things that I'm explaining.
So you're going to learn
words and phrases like
to work out, to exercise,
to stretch, foam rollers, okay?
High intensity, rowing, skipping, etc.
And all of this is going
to help your knowledge
of English in this area.
Now I recommend that
you turn on subtitles,
I have added them to this video.
And also go to the description,
because I'll leave the
best words and phrases,
from this lesson there,
so that you can just get a
little bit more practice.
Okay, are you ready?
Let's go, Emily decides
to walk to the gym,
even though you can see it's
a little bit wet and dump.
There are lots of puddles on the ground.
And it's a nice walk too,
because, she's going to pass the docks,
where you can see some boats,
and also walking with a heavy backpack,
means that you're going to feel warmed up
before you get to the gym.
I love to walk places,
I wish I could walk more where I live,
but for Emily, this is important,
because it gives her more exercise,
and allows her to feel ready,
when she gets to the gym.
Before she starts training,
she ties her hair back using a hair tie,
and she does this so that
she doesn't have hair in her face
when she is exercising.
She then grabs a foam roller,
and puts this on the floor.
Now these foam rollers
have become more popular
In recent years.
I have one at home,
I use it, especially on my
back like Emily is doing now.
So it's a way for you
to roll out your back,
and just feel more
loose and more flexible.
It can be quite painful though.
As you can see, she is grimacing,
which means that she's making that face
to suggest that it's quite painful
when she rolls, especially in those areas.
After foam rolling, it's
now time to stretch.
And here she is using a yoga
or an exercise mat,
to stretch out her hip flexes.
And she's doing this by leaning forward.
Now I usually do this
stretch after playing soccer.
Some fitness trainers say don't
stretch before exercising,
while others do.
So she is exercising her hip flexes here,
using that exercise mat.
And now she is stretching
her inner thighs,
and also her hamstrings.
Now I can't do anything close to this,
because I am not flexible
enough, nowhere near.
After stretching, it's time
to get on the rowing machine.
So she's going to use her back muscles,
her arm muscles, her legs as well,
in order to do this rowing motion.
And rowing can be brutal,
especially if you go at a high intensity.
But it seems like she is
going at a lower intensity,
to warm up for the exercises
that she wants to focus on later.
Do you like rowing?
Let me know in the comments section below.
And then look at this.
She is now skipping rope,
or in British English, just skipping.
This is really intense,
especially as she is
doing those double jumps.
And you can see slow motion here,
she's landing on her toes,
and then jumping up over the rope.
This is a hard skill,
and it's something that
takes practice to master.
I sometimes skip at home in my workouts,
but I don't do it enough.
And you can see here,
she's jumping really high over the rope.
She then goes to the exercise bike
and adjusts the seat
before sitting down on it.
So, she's making the
seat a little bit lower
to match her height.
And now it seems like the real fun begins.
Now this type of exercise bike
is common in CrossFit gyms,
and it seems like she is going
to do a CrossFit workout.
So you can see she's really
pumping her legs and her arms,
and really cycling intensely here,
so that she can get really
good cardio exercise,
from this workout.
I personally prefer low intensity cycling,
but you can see from the workout,
she's going to be doing
high intensity training.
After doing various
minutes on this machine,
she gets off feeling very tired.
So she's already done a lot of work,
and she takes her phone,
and then starts doing burpees.
So this is where you lower
yourself to the ground,
push up, and then jump up into the air.
And after doing this, she is exhausted.
Maybe she pushed herself
too hard, too soon,
because she looks like
she's already finished
with her workout,
but there's more to come.
So she takes some time on
the floor, breathing heavily,
and starts to get ready
for what's coming next.
Now can you guess what exercise
she's going to do next?
She looks up at the bar, she's focused,
jumps up, grabs hold of the bar,
and then she starts
doing kipping pull-ups.
So this is a type of pull-up motion,
where you gain momentum by
using your body in this way.
So the momentum is helping
her do more pull-ups,
but she's still having to pull herself up,
in order to complete the exercise.
So now she is in the strength
training part of her workout.
She's currently wrapping her hands,
because she's about to
lift some heavy weights,
and she needs these raps on her hands,
in order to get better grip.
With this exercise, you
can see weights on a bar.
So she grabs the bar,
pulls it close to her shins,
lifts it over her head,
and then she squats up.
This is called the barbell snatch.
What you just saw was her warmup set.
And now she's going to try and break
her personal record,
or her personal best or PB.
And she puts extra weight on the bar.
Now, she's never lifted
this much weight before.
So she readies herself,
checks her hair,
takes a deep breath,
moves towards the bar,
puts her hands on the bar,
gets ready, brings the bar towards her,
lifts it over her head and stands up.
She completes the lift,
and throws the bar back to the ground.
Now this doesn't happen a lot at gyms,
but she actually puts her weights back,
which is what people should do,
after you use a bar and weights,
you need to put that equipment back.
After her strength training,
she then moves on to explosive movements.
The first one is medicine
ball squat throws,
and then she moves on to box jumps.
So she's using her legs
here and exploding up,
jumping on the box, twisting around,
and then doing a jump again.
This one takes a lot of
effort and explosive power.
And to complete her
workout, she goes for a jog.
But as you're going see,
it's more of a high intensity run,
because she's not all out sprinting,
at 100%, but you can see
she's going quite fast here.
So I imagine that sometimes she's going
a little bit slower,
and then speeding it up,
to nearly sprinting speed.
And this again is very high intensity.
It takes a lot of energy to do this,
and it really feels like
you've had a good workout,
after completing these sprints.
So what do you think?
Did you enjoy that lesson?
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and I'm also going to
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So feel free to watch
one of those videos now.
Okay, thank you so much for being here,
and I'll speak to you soon, bye bye.
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