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Hola. Que tal estas es pero que phenomenal. Yo suy Pablo and this is Coffee Break Spanish. Today I have the pleasure of joining you for another short episode in between seasons of our main podcast. Now if this is your first time joining us, you can head right back to the Coffee Break Spanish season one and start from the very beginning. To get us started, I want to say that ami me encanta il porte. I love sport. Me usta el football, el denis and also going to the gymnasio. So today I would like to talk to you about gym vocabulary Vocabulario relacionado con el gymnasio. Basically I was at the gym the other day and I I actually realized how different this vocabulary can be in English in comparison to Spanish. So I think this is a great opportunity to have a look at some gym related vocabulary. Te apuntas. What got me thinking or inspired was that whiteboard where my gym instructor writes all the exercises that we are going to do before the actual workout starts. I was reading the names of the exercises in English and I noticed that there was one whose meaning in Spanish I couldn't remember. Entonces, vamos aver algunos ejemplos de este vocabulario tan interesante. Bueno lo primero de todo antes de hacer ejercio es importante calentar. That means to warm up. You may recognize this verb because it looks similar to the adjective caliente hot. We also have the noun el calentamiento. The warm up. One exercise that was written on my gym's whiteboard was pull ups. It was actually this exercise that I always struggle to remember what it means. So pull ups in Spanish are called dominadas. Dominadas Maybe they are called like that because you need to dominate the bar in order to make your body go up. No lo se. I also always confuse pull ups with push ups or press ups. So press ups or push ups are called flexiones. Flexiones. And the word in Spanish actually shows you what you need to do because you need to flex your arms up and down on the whiteboard. There was also written this exercise, sit ups. Enol se les diama abdominales. Abdominales. Because that's actually the muscle that you are exercising when you do this exercise. There were also squats, quezon, sentadillas and centadillas look similar to centar or centarce to sit down because that's more or less what you're doing. We finished that workout with a one minute plank. And for plank, I really like the word we use because we use the word plancha for plank. Plancha. But una plancha is also an iron that you use to iron your clothes. What else did we do? Ah, we also did lunges, which are called sancadas. So una thancada is actually a long step. That workout actually was only body weight, so we didn't use any pesas. Exactly, that's weights. Now that we've seen the names of some gym exercises in Spanish, we can maybe move on and try to make sentences. And there is one verb that is going to be your best friend if you want to describe your gym routines. And that is the verb hacer to do. So here's a sentence for you to translate, combining the verb hacer and one of the exercises we've just seen. Hoy emos, echo abdominales. Oy emos echo abdominales. Today we have done sit ups. Some yin goers prefer maybe to focus on a particular muscle group depending on the day of the week. And for that you can use the following. Oy toca, the muscle group. For example, if I say hoj toca pierna. And notice how we're using the verb tocar, which of course means to touch. But here it means more like today is leg day. Hoy toca pierna. Or today is the term for the leg. Otro e genplo. Hoy toca es palda. Today is back day, or today it's time to exercise the back. Other funny expression in this gym vocabulary world is the Spanish equivalent for having a six pack, because for that we actually say tener tableta. Tener tableta. So we really say to have a bar in the sense of a chocolate bar. Because when you have a six pack, you have the Little squares like a chocolate bar. I've always found this expression very amusing in Spanish. I have to say it. Okay, let's do a little recap. We now know how to say to warm up in Spanish, Calentar. And we also know the noun for a warm up, calentamiento. We've also seen some names for gym exercises. For example pull ups, I.e. dominadas, push ups or press ups, flexiones, sit ups, abdominales, squats, centarillas, plank plancha, which is also the iron machine, lunges, sancadas and weights, pesas. We now know that to say that we've done any of these exercises, we will use the verb hacer por ejemplo hoy agro sentadillas. Today I'm doing squats. And if you want to say today it's leg day, we would say hoy toca pierna. And finally, I've also told you how to say to have a six pack in Spanish. Tener tableda. Bueno. Pues es o estodo de momento. I hope that you have enjoyed this gym introduction in Spanish and most importantly that I haven't exhausted you with all this vocabulary. And if you're not a fan of the gym, I hope at least I have motivated you to work on that all important muscle, the brain and to practice some Spanish today. Pues nada que vaya muy bien el dia yo suy Pablo y happy coffee break en you have been listening to a coffee break Languages Production for the Radiolingua Network. Copyright 2025 Radiolingua Limited Recording Copyright 2025 Radiolingua Limited all rights reserved.