Exercise 9
In the gym
Take a look at Tara
She's not obese
or even fat
even though she likes to eat big meals
That's because she exercises at the gymnasium
in some countries a gymnasium
is a school but in English
a gymnasium or gym
is a place where you go to exercise
Doing regular exercises at a gymnasium
is called
working out at the gym
Here's Tara's gym
You can see it has a of equipment
and some of it is quite complicated
However
Tara starts off on a simple exercise mat
Not that Mat!
This one.Tara is doing her warm-up.
A warm up is gentle exercise you do to strengthen muscles before you start exercising
seriously. if you don't do a warm-up
you might
pull a muscle
pulling a muscle is painful
and can stop you exercising completely for a while
What's this exercise called?
Tara is touching her toes.
She does this to stretch the muscles in her legs and back
Next we can see Tara doing sit-ups
These are good exercise for the tummy muscles or abs
Abs are abdominal muscles
Now Tara is doing press-ups
These are hard work and she likes
to do at least fifteen. 11,12,13,14,15.Well done
Now that she
has warmed up Tara has started
to push weights.This just means that
she builds her muscles by lifting weights up and down,
but Tata wants to be slim, not muscular, so she moves on
to a running machine
This is called a treadmill
and you can run without going anywhere
this is why people who are not
satisfied with their lives
sometimes say they on a treadmill
Going no-where
Sometimes Tara runs fast
which is called sprinting
but mostly she runs slowly and steadily
This is called jogging
Tara is tired so she takes ten
Sometimes this is
called taking a breather
It's when you stop
working or exercising for a while to catch your breath
and relax until you are breathing normally
Now it's back to work
This is a bicycle that's just for exercises
So of course
it's called an exercise bike
Well done Tara. That was a good workout
no wonder you're in good shape
Enjoy your shower our and We'll see you
again next time
If you want to do some exercises on the
vocabulary you have just learned
you can find these on the English for Everybody website
at this address