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| Sprachprofi Nonaglot Senior Member Germany learnlangs.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6470 days ago 2608 posts - 4866 votes  Speaks: German*, English, French, Esperanto, Greek, Mandarin, Latin, Dutch, Italian Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Swahili, Indonesian, Japanese, Modern Hebrew, Portuguese | Message 1 of 47 27 August 2011 at 9:59am | IP Logged | |||||
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Language Geeks tend to spend too much time sitting because of all the studying we do. If
you've found a way to combine exercise and language-geeking, that would be great to hear. The only thing I thought of is counting your repetitions in your weakest foreign language, but that just helps to learn the numbers. Any other suggestions? Anyway, if you're looking to improve your fitness level, and you're on Fitocracy.com, I just created a group there for language geeks and some forum members already joined: http://www.fitocracy.com/group/1491/ Fitocracy.com is receiving a lot of attention because of the xkcd.com cartoon about it. It's basically a place to track your workouts, but it has an RPG atmosphere, with level- ups, quests and the like. Right now it's in limited beta; I can provide invites. 4 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Cainntear Pentaglot Senior Member Scotland linguafrankly.blogsp Joined 6011 days ago 4399 posts - 7687 votes Speaks: Lowland Scots, English*, French, Spanish, Scottish Gaelic Studies: Catalan, Italian, German, Irish, Welsh | Message 2 of 47 27 August 2011 at 12:33pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Thinking tends to lead to reduced effort. You don't run, cycle or whatever as fast or as hard, so most people advise against thinking during a workout.
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| patuco Diglot Moderator Gibraltar Joined 7015 days ago 3795 posts - 4268 votes Speaks: Spanish, English* Personal Language Map | Message 3 of 47 27 August 2011 at 12:35pm | IP Logged | |||||
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How about squats with a dictionary in each hand while reciting Assimil dialogues? I'm sure we've all got some books which could make this quite challenging.
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| prz_ Tetraglot Senior Member Poland last.fm/user/prz_rul Joined 4859 days ago 890 posts - 1190 votes Speaks: Polish*, English, Bulgarian, Croatian Studies: Slovenian, Macedonian, Persian, Russian, Turkish, Ukrainian, Dutch, Swedish, German, Italian, Armenian, Kurdish | Message 4 of 47 27 August 2011 at 12:40pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Well, we can simply turn on the energetic music in our target languages.
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| Volte Tetraglot Senior Member Switzerland Joined 6439 days ago 4474 posts - 6726 votes Speaks: English*, Esperanto, German, Italian Studies: French, Finnish, Mandarin, Japanese | Message 5 of 47 27 August 2011 at 1:01pm | IP Logged | |||||
Every long intellectual tradition that I am aware of emphasises the value of fitness for intellectual performance - look at the Ancient Greeks, for instance. No one said anything about doing your workouts and language study simultaneously (though Professor Argúelles, for one, does). 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Bao Diglot Senior Member Germany tinyurl.com/pe4kqe5 Joined 5766 days ago 2256 posts - 4046 votes Speaks: German*, English Studies: French, Spanish, Japanese, Mandarin | Message 6 of 47 27 August 2011 at 2:52pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Video workouts in your target language.
Something like this. I for one tend to overexert myself when concentrating on the workout, so using extensive input is a good thing. Edited by Bao on 27 August 2011 at 2:53pm 3 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
 Fasulye Heptaglot Winner TAC 2012 Moderator Germany fasulyespolyglotblog Joined 5847 days ago 5460 posts - 6006 votes 1 sounds Speaks: German*, DutchC1, EnglishB2, French, Italian, Spanish, Esperanto Studies: Latin, Danish, Norwegian, Turkish Personal Language Map | Message 7 of 47 27 August 2011 at 3:09pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I have got a Nordic Walking DVD spoken in English with Dutch subtitles. I hope that it's language-geeky enough!
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| Sprachprofi Nonaglot Senior Member Germany learnlangs.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6470 days ago 2608 posts - 4866 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Esperanto, Greek, Mandarin, Latin, Dutch, Italian Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Swahili, Indonesian, Japanese, Modern Hebrew, Portuguese | Message 8 of 47 27 August 2011 at 3:17pm | IP Logged | |||||
Actually modern teachers are advised to ensure that students have a chance to stand up and move during the lesson, especially long sessions, because it improves blood flow to the brain. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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