No pain, no gain, no idea what half these terms mean.
Exercises utilizing resistance bands to provide variable tension throughout the range of motion, accommodating the strength curve. Popular for warm-ups, activation work, and pretending you're working out while traveling.
The illegal practice of boosting red blood cell count before competition to increase oxygen delivery. Cheating that's technically just giving yourself back your own blood, which somehow makes it worse.
Polished aluminum aftermarket parts—typically grilles, trim, or custom components—added to vehicles for that shiny, souped-up aesthetic.
A training session combining two disciplines back-to-back, typically cycling followed by running, to simulate race conditions. Named for how your legs feel when you dismount the bike.
A phase of intentionally eating in a caloric surplus to gain muscle mass, accepting that some fat gain is inevitable. Permission to eat like you're training for hibernation.
Crawling on hands and feet with hips elevated, moving forward like a bear with dignity issues. Excellent for conditioning and discovering that adult humans forgot how to crawl efficiently somewhere around age two.
A training phase focused on developing aerobic capacity through high-volume, low-intensity work before adding harder efforts. The boring foundation that nobody wants to do but everyone needs.
In skating and hockey, the metal runner attached to the bottom of skates that allows you to glide gracefully or fall spectacularly, depending on your skill level. In rowing, it's the flat end of the oar that actually touches water and does the work while you pretend your arms aren't on fire. Sports equipment's reminder that the business end of any tool is what separates champions from people who really should have stuck with video games.
Simultaneously gaining muscle while losing fat. Basically a fitness unicorn that happens mostly to beginners and returning athletes.
A military-origin term meaning to thoroughly dominate someone physically, mentally, or psychologically—usually when they least expect it. Complete and utter destruction across all fronts.
A defined period of struggle, combat, or suffering—basically any meeting with your boss, a boxing match, or that one time you tried assembling IKEA furniture. Whether it's athletic or painful (often both), a bout is a contained episode of intensity with a definable beginning and end.
A ratio of weight to height that health professionals use to categorize populations while admitting it's not great for individuals (looking at you, muscular athletes).
Equipment used to increase intra-abdominal pressure (belts) or provide joint support (sleeves), because sometimes human engineering needs an upgrade.
The proportion of your body composed of fat tissue—a more useful metric than BMI, though measuring it accurately requires methods more complicated than looking in a mirror.
A humorous term for the dominant 2007-08 Boston Celtics roster—ironic slang playing with the cultural makeup of basketball's most stacked team that year.