Vocabulary

• upper body: The part of the body above the waist, including the chest, back, shoulders, and arms.
• fall for: To be deceived or tricked by someone
• back onto: To reverse a vehicle so it stops at a particular place.
• ramp up: To increase the level or amount of something sharply.
• on the ground: Located on the surface of the earth.
• fire up: To motivate or encourage someone
• look at: To use your eyes to focus on something
• phase in: To start using or doing things gradually
• work off: To work to pay some debts
• down the line: At a later time; in the future.
• lead to: To result in some action
• figure out: To understand the behavior of someone
• tough: (Of food) difficult to chew or bite through
• boost: To increase something; to make something better
• routine: Happening or done regularly or habitually
• trick: To fool someone in order to obtain a result
• plenty: When there is not too little of something; a lot
• effective: Working efficiently to produce a desired result
• common: Area in a city or town that is open to everyone
• split: No longer married or in a relationship
• strength: Condition of being strong
• solid: Being able to be trusted; reliable
• dude: Form of address for a man
• crack: Attempt to achieve a goal or objective
• myth: Popular belief that is false, unsupported by fact
• momentum: Speed or force that is gained when something moves
• challenge: An activity you wish to try that may be hard to do
• engagement: Something you must do at a set time; appointment
• resistance: Force that stops or slows movement of something
• guide: To help or advise someone about something
• valid: Being in effect or in force, often legally
• standard: Official unit of measuring something
• dive: Restaurant, bar or club with a bad reputation
• contraction: Process of becoming smaller in length/size
• variation: Something almost the same as another but different
• bounce: A person's energy or confidence
• fall: Season after summer and before winter; Autumn
• rush: To attack someone suddenly in a group
• discuss: To talk about seriously or in great detail
• organize: To arrange and plan things, e.g. a party
• ramp: Path that increases in height as you walk up it
• eccentric: Out of the ordinary; acting unusually or oddly
• doable: Able to be done; possible
• squat: To illegally live on anothers property or land
• workout: Energetic exercise
• build: Your physical shape; physique
• waist: Narrower part of your body between hips and chest
• catch: Amount of something that has been caught
• support: To give assistance or advice to someone
• detail: Small part of something; tiny fact
• fail: To be unsuccessful in passing a class or exam
• nail: Pointed piece of metal used to join pieces of wood
• fitness: Good physical condition; being in shape
• great: Very good; better than before
• float: To sell the shares of a company publicly
• grow: To get bigger and more mature; make plants do this
• hard: Difficult to do; difficult to understand
• deep: Complex and important
• flexibility: The quality of being able to be bent or stretched
• hold: To agree to keep something for someone
• mobility: Ability to move
• bench: Part of the room in court where the judge sits
• hammer: To bring severe damage, harm, or blame upon
• sculpt: To carve a material to make an artistic shape
• lateral: On the side; moving sideways
• playbook: Notebook with diagrams of the plays of a team
• overload: To make a machine work too hard so it might break
• nordic: Of Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, or Iceland
• stoke: To add fuel or tend a fire to make it stronger
• nick: Person's name
• upward: Toward some higher point or position
• lunge: To thrust or reach forward with a sudden motion
• dud: Device which did not function properly (bomb, car)
• archer: Person who shoots arrows from a bow
• calisthenic: Concerning exercises to strengthen muscles