Oh my gosh, I've just put on so much weight, so I'm trying here to get into shape. What
about you? Should you also try to also learn some vocabulary about fitness? Yes you should
but before that, let me get rid of these dumbbells.
Today I’m really pumped up to do this lesson
with you. So let's start with the first one here. Fit, what do we mean by fit? Is it a
short for any other word? Yes, it is short form for fitness. Have you heard of this before?
Who is a fit person? A person who is healthy and who has just the correct weight for their
body. Yes so maybe you are fit. I’m sure not fit. What about me? May be I’m in a
bad shape. I think I’m overweight. Yes, so who do you use this for? Somebody who has
more weight than their body should have. In other words we call them fat. But not such
a nice word to use really. So I suggest that you call them, may be they are in bad shape
or they are overweight and if you have a friend like that, you could just tell them, "hey
Marc you are a bit overweight, may be you want to get back into shape." you can use
that also. Get back into shape. Now that we are done about the shape, let's
talk about being toned. Is this related to being in a good shape? Not really, this is
for a person who is already very fit and they want to become muscular. Yes they want to
have strong muscles. Maybe you are one of them. To be muscular. So now you know just
the right phrase that you can use when you go to the gym and you can ask the coach to
help you get toned, means to help you get muscular.
Let’s look at the next one. Abs, does that sound familiar? It's actually a part of our
body which is between the chest and the hips, this portion, it's called as abs or it's a
short for abdomen. Do you know about any exercise called abs. yes it's a very common exercise,
where we bring our knees and our head together to crunch our body so that we can lose the
fat on our abdomen. Let’s look at the next one quickly. Ripped,
ripped means? To tear away something. Have you heard of ripped jeans, where you have
certain cuts on the jeans? The same way, ripped body is a body where you have defined cuts
on your body which look spectacular. Trust me most of the actors aim for that. Defined
cuts on the body. This one here, what is spare tyre? Spare means
extra. Yes something that is extra and tyre is what you use in your car. It’s usually
inflated, sometimes flat but here we are talking about a spare tyre which is inflated and unfortunately
that tyre is not in your car, it's here on your stomach and it makes you look really
fat and everyone wants to get rid of the spare tyre. So if you've got one, you know what
you need to get rid of. You can say get rid of, you can use it as getting rid of a spare
tyre. Getting rid of a, you know this reminds me. You must have read this before or heard
about abs. and there's a very common idiom related to abs. what's that? Boys and may
be even girls, I’m sure you have heard of six pack abs. you have right? Everyone wants
to have it these days. You see a lot of actors carrying six pack abs. have you seen a pack
of beer, beer that you drink? One, two, three, four, five, six. Just like the abs, one, two,
three, four, five, six, that's what it is. Quite simple, it comes from the pack of a
beer, of beers, sorry. With this we have learnt some terms and phrases that we can use related
to our body and now we move on to some phrases that we can use for fitness, the process of
fitness, for exercising. For exercising. So these are all actually phrasal verbs. What
are phrasal verbs? Phrasal verbs are something very simple not as complicated as the name.
Warm here is a verb and up here is a preposition. So a combination of a verb plus a preposition
is called as a phrasal verb. Simple, isn't it? You don't need to be worried about it.
So warm up, let's look at warm up. What is warm up, really? You must know it; you must
be knowing it, that when you go to the gym, how do you start your exercising? Do you just
straight away start with lifting weights? No you don't, what do you do first? You do
some stretching and some mild exercises to pump up your body, to heat up your body for
the further exercise, that's what warm up is. Beginning exercises.
Cool down, cool down is what comes at the end of the exercise, like warm up is, you
know you do the warm up to pep yourself up for the you know harder exercises, the same
way, cool down, we do cool down, I mean we cool down our body, so that our heart rate
comes lower and that we can go on with the rest of our activities. It's at the end of
the workout. Workout, very simple. It just talks about
the process of exercising. Whenever you go to the gym and all the time that you spend
there, exercising is called as working out. Process of exercising.
Work off, yes it's similar to work out, isn't it. But it doesn't mean the same. So working
off means getting rid of something. Last night I went to my friend Ben’s party and I ate
a lot of ice-cream there and what did I do the next day at the gym? I worked it off.
Means I got rid of the ice-cream through workout. To get rid of something.
Work out gear, what do we mean by work out gear? Work out, you already know, it talks
about the process of exercising and gear. Gear is the tool kit that you need to work
out. Yes tool kit. it's usually in the form of a gym bag, that you carry to the gym and
using that bag, you put a lot of tools may be some dumbbells or barbells or something
that you need at the gym, you put there and it's really important just to remind you to
carry some water in your workout gear, right? Let’s look at the last one, reps and sets.
Do you think this is also short for some other words? Like fit and abs. you've got it right,
it is short for repetitions and this is actually sets, same as this. So
what do we mean by repetitions? When you go to your gym or when you are exercising at
home, have you heard of this exercise called squats? Where you bend down on your knees.
Yes in that exercise if you do ten of those that exercise ten times. If you repeat that
exercise that is called a repetition or repeating the exercise ten times. And if you do ten
times, ten times, ten times again, thrice. Ten times, ten repetitions thrice that's called
sets. Ten repetitions thrice. This is what reps and sets are. Do you know there is another
phrasal verb that you can use for fitness? And that is called cut down. Trust me is the
most important that you'll ever know about losing weight. I'll write it here for you,
to work out sorry, to cut down. Cut down, cut something down, not really, it talks about
cutting down on your food intake. So maybe you eat a lot of sugar, you eat a lot of fat
and if you want to lose weight, you might want to cut down on your fat and sugar intake
that would help you big time. Now you have a tip and so much vocabulary for fitness,
so don't wait for anything, please go and lose weight, talk about fitness and encourage
your friends to lose weight using all of this vocabulary and let me go to the gym and get
back into shape. I'll see you all soon again with another lesson,
till then you take care and workout.bye.