English Phrases – Elementary | Talking About Exercise/Diet

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Title: English Phrases – Elementary | Talking About Exercise/Diet

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Hello！My name is Lacey and I am your English Teacher for today. Welcome to the Eigo Love YouTube Channel. We are going to learn 7 phrases to talk about diet and exercise. We will go through each phrase, one-by-one. First, we will practice the pronunciation, then I will explain a bit.

Are you ready?

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Number one.

To hit the gym means to go to the gym. It’s a slang expression that is commonly used. Also, for frequency, we always say the number of times before the interval. For example, once a week, twice a month.

Did you get it?
Let’s try one more time.
I hit the gym twice a week.
Awesome!

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Number two.

We commonly pick a muscle group to exercise or work on and use that to name the day. Ab means abdominal muscles, but that is really long, so we often shortened it to ab or abs. AKA your stomach muscles. We also commonly say arm day, leg day, back day and rest day. Rest day is the day when you take a break.

Let’s try one more time.
Today is ab day.
Awesome!

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Number three.

Cardio refers to anything that gets your heart rate up, for example running, cycling, dancing. This sentence means that you often run or dance, or do some kind of activity to get your heart rate up and to burn calories.

Let’s try one more time.
I do a lot of cardio.
Good job!

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Number four.

So you can say I prefer weights. I prefer lifting. On the other hand, at the gym we call exercise that use weights lifting, or just weights. You could also say strength training, but that could include body weight activities as well. For example, yoga or pilates. But weights or lifting specifically means lifting weights.

I prefer weights.
I prefer lifting.
Good job!

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Number five.

People who exercise a lot in America, and in other countries too, often prepare their meals ahead of time so that they can stay on a diet. We shorten the word preparation down to prep and call it meal prep.

I need to meal prep for this week.
Good job!

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Number six.

To count macros means to calculate and keep track of the amount of fat, carbs, or carbohydrates, and protein you are eating.

I like to count my macros.
Good!

And last, but certainly not least.

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Number seven.

This phrase includes one of my favorite words, cheat day. People who are on a diet often have a cheat day, or cheat meal. This allows them to take a short break from their diet and eat what they want. Also in this sentence, I use the words going to, but when we talk we don’t always necessarily pronounce “going to”. It often becomes gonna.

So let’s practice gonna. I am gonna eat some pizza.
Good job!

Today is my cheat day, so I am gonna eat some pizza.

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