Chatterbox #292 – Let’s get physical and talk about HIIT

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🗓️ 10 August 2022

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Have you ever heard of high intensity interval training? That’s quite a mouthful, isn’t it? Luckily, we usually just call this type of workout HIIT. It’s a training style that has recently gained a lot of popularity. In this Chatterbox episode, hosts Andrew and Anna explain the entire concept of HIIT and share their stories related to it. Chatterbox is a Culips series where two native English speakers have a quick and natural conversation about interesting topics. This series is designed to be beneficial for intermediate and advanced English language learners. Fun facts Although HIIT has been gaining in popularity recently, the concept has been around for a long time. Famously, British athletics coach Peter Coe used the principles of HIIT to help train his son, Sebastian Coe, who would later go on to win several Olympic medals as a middle distance runners! Expressions included in the study guide A mouthful Hard to pinpoint To resonate with [someone] To be beat To be plausible There’s a time and a place To fall into place To fall by the wayside Copyright: Culips.com For more information about this episode, visit culips.com. Music Credit: Something Elated by Broke For Free, Step On by Jahzzar Image: Element5 Digital (Unsplash.com)

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0:00.0	Hello everyone. My name is Andrew and my name is Anna and you're listening to the
0:08.5	Culeps English podcast. cast.
0:20.0	Hey everyone, welcome back to Culeps. This is Chatterbox. The Culeps series for intermediate and advanced English learners that features natural unedited
0:26.1	conversations between native speakers about interesting topics or trending current events or maybe even a hot issue and today I'm joined by my co-host Anna.
0:38.0	Hey there Anna.
0:40.0	Hi Andrew and hello listeners. Now Andrew remember when we talked about
0:44.7	bread in our last Chatterbox episode. Yes I do Anna how could I forget I love bread and
0:50.7	that conversation was really fun and now that you've got me thinking about
0:55.4	bread again I'm starting to get a little bit hungry I have to be honest.
0:58.6	Well don't get too hungry because now it's time to burn off all the carbs and calories we gained from that conversation.
1:05.6	Of course I'm joking but today's topic is completely the opposite of bread actually and today
1:11.7	what we're going to talk about is hit which is an
1:14.9	acronym and the acronym stands for a high intensity interval training it's a kind of
1:20.9	exercise that's been really trendy and has been very trendy over the past few years as well
1:26.9	Yeah, absolutely so I think it sounds like we're gonna get a workout in this episode, everyone, and we'll get started and we'll talk about hits in just a moment.
1:38.4	Of course, before we do, I want to let all of you guys out there listening know that there is a study guide and transcript
1:46.2	available for this episode and in the guide you'll find detailed vocabulary definitions and examples. There's a quiz. There are
1:55.0	prompts that you can use for speaking and writing practice. There's a lot of good
1:59.9	stuff in the guide and we recommend following along with it while you listen to this
2:05.6	episode. So to get the guide all you have to do is sign up and become a Qups member
2:11.6	and you can find all the details and sign up on our website
2:16.1	Q-L-I-S-com. Becoming a member helps support the work that we do here at QLPS, but it also gives you access
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