英文原版对话1000个:1198 Alternative Exercise

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　　Julia: Hey Todd, how are you doing?

 

　　Todd: Good, good. Now Julia, you are really fit and also you are a yoga instructor¹ and a runner so you are the perfect person to talk about extreme exercise.

 

　　Julia: Extreme. I wouldn't say I'm an extremist, but go on.

 

　　Todd: OK. So first of all I thought I would ask about this yoga that you do in like really hot rooms or something like that.

 

　　Julia: Yeah, the bikram yoga it's called.

 

　　Todd: Yeah.

 

　　Julia: Yeah, actually I've never tried it myself. I know it's kind of a growing craze, maybe Madonna made it really popular. As far as I know you do it in a sauna but it can't possibly be a sauna.

 

　　Todd: Not a real sauna, right?

 

　　Julia: I don't know what the temperature is but I think the philosophy behind it is to try to recreate the same climate as you'd find in India where yoga originates.

 

　　Todd: Right, so you want it to be really hot.

 

　　Julia: And humid, yeah.

 

　　Todd: Wow.

 

　　Julia: And also people who like to get the kind of the stretch value but also like to sweat at the same time. If you want a sweat yoga then it's a crank up the temperature is going to help you.

 

　　Todd: Wow, that's intense.

 

　　Julia: It is.

 

　　Todd: What about, have you heard about cross fit?

 

　　Julia: Cross fit? No.

 

　　Todd: Yeah. Cross fit's the big rage in America.

 

　　Julia: Cross fit, no I haven't heard of that.

 

　　Todd: Cross fit is like people do all of these really old-school exercises, like push ups or pull ups. They do like jumping jacks², they do really weird³ things like dead lifts, stuff like that but they do it one after the other in really short time intervals⁴ and like the work out only takes twelve minutes.

 

　　Julia: Wow.

 

　　Todd: But if you do it right, I think some people actually get so fatigued⁵ they throw up so like you really push your body to the limit.

 

　　Julia: That is extreme, yes.

 

　　Todd: It is extreme, although I'm probably saying it wrong.

 

　　Julia: Good for weight loss.

 

　　Todd: Yeah, so it's actually a big craze where people do more natural body movements and you never do the same thing twice. You're not supposed to get into a routine. You always do things different.

 

　　Julia: You do it like spontaneously or you set yourself a program?

 

　　Todd: There's a whole website, you go to the cross fit website and they explain it all but it looks pretty cool. It's like not your typical gym type workout.

 

　　Julia: Cross fit sounds like something you do on a BMX or something.

 

　　Todd: Right, right, exactly.

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