Pratica di Shadowing: Dr. Stacy Sims: How Much Lifting A Week? What One Study Found - Impara a parlare inglese con i video

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Do you think there's a lot on, you know, obviously all of us look at Instagram and social can be good and bad, can motivate us, but at the same time can sort of be a bit misleading
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because like there seems to be a competition at the moment, at least on the algorithm that is applying itself to me, is that plyometrics is becoming,
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it's nearly becoming a bit of a show -off game.
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It's nearly like saying those deadlifts are useless and you should be doing this plyometrics.
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And actually, when you look at these dudes, like they're unbelievably built.
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Like I'm thinking, my God, I never looked like that.
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And I don't know anyone who's ever looked like that.
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And maybe I should have been doing this sort of stuff before.
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Is this misleading us?
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And where does social fit into this whole game that you're in?
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Yeah.
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So if we think about social and clickbait, that's the problem, right?
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People will put really polarizing things on social to get people to watch them.
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And it's just like reality TV is completely scripted.
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It's curated to be what is coming out, right?
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So when we start really leaning into social media, it doesn't give you the full story or the nuances.
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So if I'm thinking about the algorithm that you're locked into with everyone showing off about their power moves, I always go back to,
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well, how did you develop that power in the first place?
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We know that hip thrusts
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and deadlifts are paramount for being able to build up the
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posterior chain in order to have a high sprint capacity and a high power of jumping capacity.
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So that's the part that they're not telling you.
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They're not saying I had to build a base of strength first before I could do these power moves.
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And this is where we start to see injury and deflation
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and lack of confidence because people are leaning into these clickbait reels
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or these short snippets of time that have been curated for a message rather than giving the full story.
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So it's a slow build too.
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So how important is that for people to understand, look, I've never done any exercise.
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I would like to do some exercise because I now understand that there's a lot of benefits in terms of lifespan, but also probably equally important, probably maybe more important, healthspan,
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being healthy during that long life.
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I'm going to start doing some resistance work.
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For example, my dad never did resistance work, but around about 85, he started, he asked me, could I get him some hand weights?
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And then he conquered those ones that are only two and a half.
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Then he got to five kilos and he started, you know, standing up and sitting down in the chair and those sorts of things.
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He realized, I don't know why he realized, but he realized that, you know, lifting some resistance stuff is important.
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And what should we be doing now if we're, you know, if a 40 -year -old person is sitting here listening to you speak,
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woman, what should she be thinking about?
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I don't mean sort of building a program, but what she should be thinking about is having like an appropriate program,
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like between, say, heart, lung and resistance work.
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I mean, she should be doing resistance for one hour a week.
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I mean, I listened to Peter T and Peter sort of says things like, you know, you should be doing you know 150 minutes of zone two and three
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and then you should like it's sort of like I think
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fuck like I don't know enough time to do all this
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sort of stuff um that's like I don't I'm trying to work at where the optimum is
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and what what should a woman be thinking about there was a study
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that came out last week about weight lifting
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and what's the optimal sweet spot yeah ironically it's 119 minutes a week not a week yeah
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so I mean that can be divided up into what um 30 -ish minute sessions a week, right?
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So it doesn't take a lot and ideally total body.
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So you're doing some compound movements.
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After that, they see the risk factors for all -cause mortality doesn't go down,
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but it really does significantly have an impact on things like dementia and bone and sarcopenia when you hit that 119 minutes.
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Positively.
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Positive, yeah.
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Yeah.
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Yeah, absolutely which is a pretty far cry from the two moderate exercise resistance training sessions
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that things like ACSM have out there.
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We're starting to see more and more research on the benefits of resistance training.
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Not only that, but resistance training does give you metabolic changes.
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As we talk about Zone 2 and mitochondria and that kind of stuff, we still get mitochondrial changes with resistance training.
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And when we're talking about cardiovascular and reducing things like visceral fat.
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We need a really high intensity work for that.
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We know that short bouts of really high intensity work improve cardiovascular because,
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one, we're having to really shift blood rapidly to the muscles in the heart under high load.
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So we have a vascular component that improves our blood pressure and the way that our body controls blood flow.
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We see that when you do high intensity, it uses a lot of blood glucose,
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so it improves insulin sensitivity because the muscle cells then adapt to be able to use glucose without insulin.
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If we have less insulin resistance, then we also decrease our leptin resistance,
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which becomes a problem for women in their mid to late 40s where they never feel like they're really full
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and they're craving lots of carbohydrate.
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There's a change in the gut microbiome, but we are also starting to see a little bit of leptin resistance because that goes up as insulin resistance goes up.
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So if we're talking about high -intensity work, that helps with metabolic from a hormonal standpoint.
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It also creates a change so that your body doesn't have a stimulus to store visceral fat, which is that deep abdominal kind of dangerous fat.
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And it improves our heart and lungs
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because we have to be able to shift blood quickly and get oxygen to the working muscles.
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So then when we're looking at what does that look like in a week, right?
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So if we can hit three 40 -minute sessions a week, in that 40 -minute session,
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you're spending some time doing some mobilization and warm -up
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because we have to make sure our tendons and ligaments are warmed up as well as our muscles, get into some compound loading, and then we finish with a couple of sprints
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or a couple of one -minute efforts with one minute off
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so that we're getting to that higher range of our anaerobic capacity.
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And if we think about it from a longevity marker, it's hitting those capacities, right?
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We're hitting VO2 with our high intensity at the end.
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We're hitting our grip strength through total body compound movement.
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We're helping with brain health, cardiovascular health.
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We're helping with mobility and agility because we're warming up properly.
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So you're hitting all the notes that help protect you from having just lifespan.
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But it's really improving your ability to have a health span.

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Per chi è questo video?

Questo video è ideale per gli apprendisti di inglese a livello intermedio o avanzato che vogliono migliorare la comprensione orale e la pronuncia, soprattutto in contesti conversazionali su argomenti di salute e fitness. È perfetto per chi cerca di integrare l'apprendimento linguistico con contenuti informativi, poiché la discussione tra i partecipanti è naturale, con pause, ripetizioni e espressioni colloquiali che riflettono la comunicazione reale.

Parole e modi di dire da rubare

Ecco alcuni espressioni standout dal video, utili per arricchire il tuo vocabolario colloquiale:

  • Clickbait: Contenuto progettato per attirare l'attenzione in modo esagerato (es. "I video clickbait spesso promettono di più di quanto non facciano").
  • Plyometrics: Tipo di esercizi che combinano forza e velocità (es. "I plyometrics sono utili per migliorare la potenza, ma richiedono una base di forza").
  • Compound movements: Esercizi che coinvolgono più muscoli contemporaneamente (es. "Gli squats e i deadlifts sono esempi di compound movements").
  • To be a show-off game: Essere un modo per mostrarsi (es. "Su social, a volte l'esercizio diventa un show-off game più che un modo per stare in forma").

Come migliorare la pronuncia: focus sulla shadow speak

Per imitare la pronuncia naturale dello speaker, usa la tecnica del shadowing (o "shadowspeak"): ascolta un frammento del video, pausa e ripetilo immediatamente, cercando di seguire l'intonazione, il ritmo e la pronuncia delle consonanti. Ecco alcuni punti chiave:

  • Ritmo colloquiale: La speaker usa pause e ripetizioni (es. "I mean, I listened to Peter T and Peter sort of says...") per rendere la conversazione più naturale. Ripeti questi frammenti per acquisire un flusso più spontaneo.
  • Consonanti sorde: Attenzione a suoni come la "t" in "but" o la "d" in "deadlifts", spesso pronunciate in modo debole in inglese colloquiale. Usa un shadowing site per confrontare la tua pronuncia con l'originale.
  • Intonazione: La speaker usa un tono ascendente per porre domande retoriche (es. "Is this misleading us?") e discendente per affermazioni. Pratica a ripetere queste variazioni per rendere il tuo parlato più espressivo.

Il shadow speech è un modo efficace per internalizzare le sfumature della lingua inglese: con pochi minuti al giorno, noterai un miglioramento nella pronuncia e nella confidenza nel parlare.

La grammatica di questo video

Le strutture che chi parla usa di più, con le parole esatte del video:

StrutturaNel video
Forma passiva be + participio passato — conta ciò che accade, non chi lo fahave been curated · can be divided · are warmed
Present perfect have/has + participio passato — un’azione passata che conta ancora adessohave been curated · I've never done
Frasi relative who / which + frase — un’informazione in più su una persona o una cosaabsolutely which is · fat, which is

Cos'è la tecnica dello Shadowing?

Shadowing è una tecnica di apprendimento delle lingue supportata da studi scientifici, originariamente sviluppata per la formazione dei traduttori professionisti e resa popolare dal poliglotta Dr. Alexander Arguelles. Il metodo è semplice ma potente: ascolti un audio in inglese di madrelingua e lo ripeti immediatamente ad alta voce — come un'ombra che segue il parlante con un ritardo di solo 1–2 secondi. A differenza dell'ascolto passivo o degli esercizi di grammatica, lo shadowing costringe il tuo cervello e i muscoli della bocca a elaborare e riprodurre simultaneamente i modelli di discorso reale. La ricerca dimostra che migliora significativamente la precisione della pronuncia, l'intonazione, il ritmo, il discorso connesso, la comprensione dell'ascolto e la fluidità del parlato — rendendolo uno dei metodi più efficaci per la preparazione alla prova di speaking dell'IELTS e per la comunicazione reale in inglese.

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