FITNESS - Learn British English Vocabulary & Phrases with English Like a Native · English Like A Native
学习基础健身英语词汇和短语，适合初学者提升日常交流能力。涵盖锻炼目的、热身动作及常见训练项目，帮助你自信谈论健身话题。
Are you ready to do some exercise?
你准备好开始锻炼了吗？
Hello, my name is An English.
你好，我的名字是安·英格利什（An English）。
This is English, like a native, and I am wearing my workout gear.
我说的是标准的英语（就像一个以英语为母语的人一样），而且我现在正穿着运动装备。
That's because I'm ready to do some physical exercise.
那是因为我已经准备好进行一些体育锻炼了。
And I thought while exercising, I could teach you some basic exercise vocabulary.
我想，在锻炼的过程中，我可以教你一些基本的运动术语。
The kind of vocabulary that every native knows, not just the specialists.
这种词汇是每个母语使用者都掌握的，而不仅仅是专业人士才了解的。
Exercise now.
现在就开始锻炼吧。
First of all, why do people exercise?
首先，人们为什么要锻炼呢？
Well, there are three phrases that I commonly hear from people who are
嗯，有三种表述是我经常从人们那里听到的。
exercising on a regular basis.
定期进行锻炼。
Either they want to lose weight.
要么他们想减肥。
Lose weight.
减肥。
This means they want to become slimmer and less heavy.
这意味着他们希望变得更苗条、体重更轻。
So they want to lose weight.
所以他们想减肥。
Secondly, perhaps they want to tone up.
其次，也许他们想增强体魄（也就是让身体变得更加健壮）。
To tone.
为了塑形/紧致身材。
Up means to improve your muscle definition, or to tone up, or they might simply just want to get fit.
增肌”（Up）指的是提升肌肉的线条感或使身体更加紧致；当然，也有人只是单纯希望让自己的身体变得更健康而已。
This means they want to improve their level of fitness.
这意味着他们希望提高自己的健康水平（或体能）。
Now, every session of exercise, which we tend to call a workout,
现在，每次锻炼活动我们都习惯称之为“一次锻炼”（或“一次训练”）。
should begin with a warm-up.
任何运动都应该从热身开始。
A warm-up comes at the beginning of your exercise session to prepare your body for strenuous physical exercise.
在锻炼开始前，会进行一段热身活动，以帮助身体为剧烈的身体运动做好准备。
It normally includes light exercise and some stretches to make sure your muscles are ready for action.
通常包括轻度的运动和一些拉伸动作，以确保你的肌肉能够为接下来的活动做好准备。
And just pay attention to the pronunciation of that word,
请特别注意那个单词的发音。
muscles.
肌肉。
Muscles.
肌肉。
These are muscles.
这些都是肌肉。
Talking about muscles.
说到肌肉……
Which muscles?
是哪些肌肉呢？
The most natives know about.
只有最了解当地情况的人才知道这些事情。
Of course, we have biceps, triceps,
当然，我们还有二头肌和三头肌。
pectoral muscles, which we tend to shorten.
胸肌——我们往往会过度使用这些肌肉（导致它们变得紧张或缩短）。
to pecs We have abdominal muscles which again we shortened to abs
说到胸肌（pects），我们还有腹肌（abdominal muscles）；不过这些腹肌的名称也被简化成了“abs”。
We have gluteus maximus which is often shortened to simply groups we have thighs
我们拥有臀大肌（gluteus maximus），这个肌肉的名称通常被简化为“臀部肌肉”。
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
腘绳肌和小腿肌肉当然是了；人体内其实还有许多其他的肌肉，但这些是最为人们所熟知的肌肉。
Let's now talk about the actual exercises Typical strengthening exercises you'll hear about are sit ups
现在我们来谈谈具体的锻炼方法。常见的强化锻炼动作包括仰卧起坐。
sit ups Sit ups help to improve your abdominal muscles
仰卧起坐：仰卧起坐有助于锻炼腹部肌肉。
smaller sit ups little pulsing sit-ups are called crunches if you turn yourself over to face the floor and
那些幅度较小的仰卧起坐动作（即身体微微颤动的仰卧起坐动作）被称为“crunches”（卷腹）。如果你将身体翻转到面向地板的位置，那么这些动作会更加明显。
Press the floor away from yourself This is called a press up typically in British English in American English It's called a pushup,
将身体向上推，同时让地面远离你的身体。这个动作在英国英语中被称为“press up”，而在美国英语中则被称为“pushup”。
but we also use that here, too
不过我们在这里也使用了这个方法。
so press up or Push up now if you hold yourself in the press up position sometimes on your elbows
那么，现在就去做俯卧撑吧！如果你在做俯卧撑时有时会用肘部支撑身体……