Speakout Pre-intermediate Video Podcast Unit 6 Fitness

Speakout Pre-intermediate Video Podcast
Unit 6
Fitness

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Often it’s hard to find the time to exercise

when you have a full-time job.

Lots of my friends belong to gyms,

but I prefer to go running outside to keep fit.

How about you? What do you do to keep fit?

I do quite a few things actually. I go to the gym quite regularly,

I go for runs, I’m also a little bit involved in the sport of rowing so I’m down there quite a bit,

I actually coach rowing as well.

I have three children and I work full-time

and I don’t have a lot of time

to do any extra organised exercise.

The main thing I do is I practice yoga

so that incorporates different positions as well as meditation

and different breathing techniques.

Usually I ride my bike like I’ve got here

and I go to the gym more or less three to four times a week

and I also watch what I eat.

I dance and I do yoga and I just try to be as active as possible,

enjoy nature also.

I try and walk everywhere because I don’t really enjoy running.

I have quite a hectic lifestyle as a musician,

but I do try to keep fit, go to the gym, yoga classes,

Pilates classes, sometimes running and generally keeping active.

I’m a police officer, so I have quite an active job,

I can spend eight to twelve hours doing foot patrol and walking round the streets of London,

so I suppose that keeps me quite fit

What other things would you like to do to keep fit?

I’d love to get involved in some team sports,

I really enjoy sort of the team aspect of sport, particularly,

think I’d like to get into hockey.

I’d quite like to learn how to play tennis properly.

it’s probably one of the only sports that I’m interested in,

it’s something I’d watch on TV.

I’d like to run, but my legs are not running legs, so I prefer to cycle.

I would like to learn to rock climb.

I’d actually like to join a rowing club but unfortunately

I don’t really have the time and it is a little bit expensive.

Really enjoy getting out of London for the weekend and going sailing.

When I was at university I got quite into swing dancing,

which is very much like jive, 1940s jazz dancing.

I’d quite like to take that up again because

it’s an easy way of keeping fit and you meet a lot of people.

Do you do anything that isn’t very healthy?

I have a bit of a sweet tooth,

I love desserts and I love to eat sweet things.

I definitely drink too much coffee and I do like chocolate as well.

Eating late is really bad for you so I try and avoid that as much as I can,

although, it does happen quite regularly.

I love chocolate and I probably eat too much of it.

Because of my shift work I eat a lot of fast food,

especially in the early hours of the morning.

Gosh, I don’t know, I’m a vegetarian, I don’t smoke, I don’t drink caffeine.

I eat far too many crisps and chocolate and biscuits and because I bake I also eat a lot of cake.