Online Class Notes (Li)[S]

Vocabulary

fitness tracker: a watch to track your health, exercise data

eg. These days fitness trackers are popular with health-conscious people.

heartbeat/rate: the number of times your heart pumps blood in a minute

warmup: a period of exercises to prepare for something

eg. If you don’t do the warmup exercises before you start running, you will get injured.

eg. Some people don’t perform their warmups properly so they get injured easily.

stretch: to straighten your arms and legs for as long as possible

exercises/workouts: 锻炼;è¿åŠ¨

eg. You should do 15 exercises per workout to train each muscle group.

physical appearance/outer appearance/looks

campus: university building 校区

eg. This campus can accommodate 500 students at a time.

Grammar

I have join the member of… – I have become a member of…/I have joined…. 

to push you to your top limit – to push your limits 

Speaking exercise

You can follow the instructions. My course, it will take 3 or 4 minutes to 拉å‡. There are 40 actions and each one can take 30 seconds. At first, it will be hard. Then it will get better. It’s the sixth day today. One exercise is hard for me, I cannot do. For the other exercise, I think it’s no problem, I can do.

I also have personal coach. Before I married, I go to the gym and I can lose weight by myself. But, after my daughter was born, my weight was increased around 15kg. At that time, it was hard for me to take exercise by myself. I had to have a coach to set an appropriate training plan for me. I spent 20,000 yuan to hire the coach. It was 6 months. But, I went to the gym every day. My weight was reduced after six months.

Revised:

You can follow the instructions. For my course, it takes approximately 3 to 4 minutes to stretch. There are 40 exercises and each one takes around 30 seconds. At first, it is hard. Then it gets better. It’s the sixth day today. One exercise is hard for me, I cannot do/perform it. For the other exercises, I think I have no problems, I can do them.

I also had/hired a personal coach. Before I got married, I went to the gym and I could lose weight by myself. But, after my daughter was born, my weight increased by around 15kg/I gained around 15kg. At the time, it was hard for me to take exercise by myself. I had to have a coach to set an appropriate training plan for me. I spent 20,000 yuan to hire the coach. It lasted for 6 months. But, I went to the gym every day. My weight had reduced/decreased after six months.