English Conversation Practice
Yup, it’s the time of year when everyone is trying to sell you stuff and we are giving away English conversation practice!
This week’s blog contains an invitation to chat about exercise on WhatsApp.
Read on to discover what’s brought all this on!
Find out how you can inspire my exercise mission, and I’ll inspire your English!
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A Radical Decision
This weekend I booked myself a weekend away in a hotel with a gym because I never use gyms, and I want to start.
Thinking that everyone would be better than me (ie: look better than me) was putting me off, but the thing that most prevented me from going was even simpler: walking in for the first time and figuring out everything in front of habitual gym users.
It wasn’t only the scary-looking exercise machines, but where to put my bag, and whether to say hi when I walk in.
(Even if the person is upside down and turning purple?)
I think of gyms as spaces that I don’t belong in, and although curious, I wasn’t brave enough to begin by walking into a busy commercial gym: I would be too exposed.
So often we have to disrupt our own self-beliefs, but we don’t need to force ourselves too far out of our comfort zone if there are gentler ways!
I took a leap.
I booked a spa hotel in Inverness.
So How Was It?
At first strange. So many mirrors! What the heck are these wobbly bits down there?
And then lastly:
I should have done this YEARS ago!
On the first day, I managed 10 minutes on each of the machines. By the last day: double.
But more than that, the final day felt fun.
I’d signed up to feel good afterwards, but I wasn’t expecting to enjoy the process so much!
I walked out of that lovely Inverness retreat feeling fantastic.
What Results?
I wanted to become someone who works out regularly: keep that great feeling topped up over winter (when it gets harder to choose to move).
I invested in my future self: I wanted to be ready for all the opportunities next spring and summer bring, but really, I feel immediately better. I feel hungry to do more and I welcome the process (I want more gym time!)
Sure, it’s a tender beginning (one bad cold might knock it off track), but it feels hugely positive – and I’ll look for help staying on track.
(Read on you find out how you can help)
Friendship, Accountability & Support
My introduction to gym life is reminiscent of the way my Top Up Vouchers help your English.
Top Up offers a painless way to save rusty, unloved English and get you back on track, feeling good when you speak.
There’s no judgement on your ‘wobbly bits’.
No pressure to ‘progress.’
Too much of English ‘learning’ is pushing forward into more and more layers of language, and always feeling the ground shifting under you.
Top Up consolidates what you’ve got. We don’t surge forward, but explore in concentric circles making you certain of the English you’ve got.
The objective is fun, stress-free English ‘workouts,’ that not only stop you sliding downhill but have you looking forward to more.
That’s a big win for a small time commitment because it’s the start of everything.
Travel? A new job? A specific English learning goal?
A little bit of working out now, is how they become desirable and achievable: because you love them and want more.
Try Aiming for 1% Better
Top Up My English
It’s ok to not feel marathon about your English right now.
If it has been ignored for a while you’ll likely dread beginning again.
But it’s worth it. Otherwise, you are saying no now to future opportunities in life that you will want.
If you can see how doing some gentle stretching and restorative warm-ups in a luxurious, safe way can help you, I’m here.
👉 Heads up: I only work with 4 Top Up clients: and there are only 2 spots left.
An Irresistible Offer
If you think Top Up might be for you, let’s connect right now on WhatsApp (use the button on this page).
All this week, I’m speaking with rusty English users about exercise.
You don’t need to be a fitness guru – just pop on and tell me about how you keep healthy or exercise or train.
That’s it. A bit of revision of language used to describe routines and habits and (if you like) giving advice.
I’ll share my number and we can spend this week chatting about lifestyle, exercise and healthy habits, along with the tiniest, gentlest bit of English coaching!
You can inspire my exercise mission, and I’ll inspire your English!
Feel good in English, so you can show up confidently, in your own voice and share your message with the world.
To Do
Pop on to WhatsApp
and tell me about how you keep healthy, exercise or train.
Top images: Inverness Botanical Gardens (a highlight of my weekend away).
Bottom image: thank goodness it didn’t occur to me to take a wobbly bits gym photo, so here’s an image of me hot and sweaty after Ceilidh dancing instead (an activity that was part of a recent English immersion holiday: The Autumn Adventure).
Video: me pontificating about how to relax into English
