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Paying with sweat now so your future self owes you nothing.
means A session of physical exercise undertaken to build strength, fitness, or endurance.
from Straightforward compound of 'work' plus 'out,' born in gym and athletic-training slang. The underlying sense of 'work out' meaning to solve or resolve something through effort — as in working out a problem — extended naturally to the body: training a muscle or a plan until it's 'worked out' into shape. The noun form split off from that verb phrase, settling into its modern fitness sense.
- word shift
- Noun form only became common in 1960s fitness culture
- boxing roots
- Gyms once called any training session a workout
- afterburn effect
- Body keeps burning extra calories hours after
- minimum dose
- Even 7 minutes can trigger real fitness gains