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little big thing at every mind matters. Hello, hi and welcome to another episode of the Emmagon show. Thank you so much for joining me. I am your host, Emmagon Awardner, and I thought we'd bust some fitness jargon. How do you feel about that? And the reason why I thought this would be a timely episode and an

episode worth doing is because I've been speaking to a few pals recently. I was at

dinner with friends and we were talking about how so much with fitness like how back in the day I remember going to the gym and wearing track suit bottoms as in actual you know track suit bottoms and trainers and like a big t-shirt. You know, that was a hyper-technicolor

t-shirt, so you put your hands on and they change color. And how it's all advanced and now we're wearing NASA approved sweat wicking goodness

knows what else and how it's all just got very very complicated and somebody

brought up oh yeah what about all the terminology?

Like every time I speak to a personal trainer, I feel like I need to go back to fitness school.

I said, oh, what do you mean?

And they said, oh, I just feel really excluded when people start talking about the different types of exercise because I don't know what they are or asking me a question and using an acronym and I don't know what it means.

So I thought, hmm, maybe it would be an idea to do an episode where I just lay out what they are.

Because the last thing anyone should feel is excluded from something is free and easy,

because although there are lovely gyms and

lovely classes you can also go for a one you can also do stuff in your own home

the last thing you want to do is feel excluded or disenfranchised from the fitness movement because you're not using the right terms.

You don't have to use them, but you know, if you understand them, might make life easier.

So, should we just start with something really simple and something I get quite a lot, which is Doms. You might hear me say, oh my Doms are absolutely murder today.

Doms stands for delayed onset muscle soreness.

It's also known as muscle fever but it's the pain felt in muscles after strenuous exercise or if you've worked a muscle group a lot or maybe

perhaps even overworked it that you haven't used that you haven't worked before or in recent history.

And so basically when you work a muscle group,

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