WORKSHEET – THE PERSONAL TRAINER

WORDS YOU SHOULD KNOW

Before proceeding, check you know the following words. Look them up or look in the glossary if you do
not know them.

Verbs you should know Adjectives you should know

overtrain prone to
recover suppressed
fallacy weak
set somebody up sore
tire something out
spot Nouns you should know
suppress overtraining
get weaker failure
get knocked back joints
get behind
be cooped up Other
peel whether
start over
ache

DEFINITIONS – Which of the above words is described here?

1. To do excessive training or to harm yourself by too much training

2. To return to your normal condition
3. A false or mistaken idea
4. Having a tendency or inclination to do something (to)
5. To confine in a restricted area (up)
6. A way to express or imply alternatives
7. Deficient in colour
8. An inflammation of the skin due to overexposure to ultraviolet radiation.
9. Feeling or affected by pain
10. Locate or identify something
11. To lose an outer layer of something, eg. skin _

COMPLETION - Use some of the words you have learnt in these sentences. NB. You will need to
conjugate the verbs!

1. Luckily, I the mistake in the document before it was printed.

2. When you go on the beach for the first time in summer your skin is usually q uite
3. I don’t know to read a book or go to the gym today.
4. Children at school are to catching colds and other germs from their
s choolmates.
 5. I’ve been in my room all day studying. I’m going out!
6. Charlie is still _ from his back injury. It will be another month before he can play
again.

GLOSSARY
ache (muscles ache) – far male ( muscoli fanno set () up (for failure) - predisporre (per
male) fallimento)
be cooped up – essere confinato spot - individuare
peel (eg. skin peels) - spellare (la pelle si spela) suppress – reprimere
start over - ricominciare get weaker – diventare più debole
failure - fallimento get knocked back – tornare da capo
fallacy – fallacia tire (your muscles) out – stancare (I muscoli)
get behind - rimanere/finire indietro sore – sentire male
joints - articolazioni suppressed - represso
overtrain – allenare fino all’eccesso weak - debole
recover - recuperare whether … se (quando c’è un opzione)
prone to - incline a

Answers
DEFINITIONS 1 overtraining; 2 recover; 3 fallacy; 4 prone; 5 cooped up;6 whether;7 pale; 8 sunburn;9
sore;10 spot; 11 peel COMPLETION 1 spotted; 2 pale; 3 whether; 4 prone to; 5.cooped up; 6
recovering

NEXT STEPS
1. WATCH THE VIDEO – OVERTRAINING and answer the questions
2. READ THE ARTICLE: 10 things nobody tells you when you become a Personal Trainer
3. DO THE EXERCISES
4. READ THE ARTICLE: 7 questions to ask your Personal Trainer
5. DO THE TEST