No.9865438 +0: Schwarzenegger's popular word-exchange iron for iron.

Today's quotation

"Everyone sympathizes with the weak; ? Jealousy is something you must win. "

- ? Arnold Schwarzenegger? Austrian-American actor, businessman, former politician and professional bodybuilder.

There are many fitness enthusiasts around me. Some of them run in the gym near the company at lunch time every day, and some of them fly to all parts of the world to participate in the marathon every year. You must know many such fitness enthusiasts.

Many people go to the gym to lift weights such as barbells and dumbbells, commonly known as lifting iron.

The English name of lifting iron is pump iron.

This word is very funny and has something to do with a world-class bodybuilder and movie star-Schwarzenegger.

1975, International Bodybuilding Federation (IFBB)

-International Bodybuilding Federation;

Fitness) held the 1 1 Mr. Olympia competition in South Africa.

Arnold is one of the finalists.

Schwarzenegger (Arnold Schwarzenegger).

1977, an American documentary selected Schwarzenegger and another bodybuilder (louis ferrigno) to compete for Mr Olympia in this competition.

It was this documentary that made the name Schwarzenegger popular overnight and became a household name in the United States.

1970, 23-year-old Schwarzenegger won the title of Mr. Olympia in the world bodybuilding competition for the first time, and the record of the youngest bodybuilder in the world has been maintained to this day. From 65438 to 0975, Schwarzenegger won the World Bodybuilding Competition for the sixth time and kept the title of Mr. Olympia.

The name of this documentary is "Drawing Iron".

* Pump iron is English slang, which means to exercise with heavy objects; Doing aerobics means "lifting iron" in spoken Chinese.

* Understand this movie: IMDb- Drawing Iron (1977)

Why does the verb "lift the iron" use a pump?

I haven't done any in-depth textual research. I guess it may be one of the meanings of the word pump, which is related to "pulse".

There is an adjective in English called pumped, which means that excessive exercise causes muscle swelling, and some people are out of breath after strenuous exercise.

China's idiom "spurting blood" can be translated as pumping blood.

From this point of view, when people lift weights in the gym, they also exert their strength once and for all like a water pump. In this way, the pump iron is easy to understand.

To sum up today's content:

If someone lifts weights, they lift them for exercise.

Do you usually go to the gym? What sports do you like to do in the gym? Welcome to leave a message

Appendix: vocabulary commonly used in gym

aerobic exercise

anaerobic exercise

Indirect training in boot camp with bare hands (* a question will be discussed later)

Compound motion

Doms (delayed muscle soreness) (* is the kind of muscle pain that you begin to feel the next day after fitness)

Dynamic warm-up/dynamic stretching (before exercise)

Hiit (high intensity interval training)