Can anybody explain why workout means physucal exercise? or "to work out" means "to exercise"?
I understand "to work out" has a lot of meanings. but I'm really curious about what the origin of the word "workout" is.
What do we work when we work out...of course our body. then why was "work" associated with "out" and became the meaning of "physical exercise"?
What kind of images dose "out" have here? like we "work" our body "out" of what? out of bad shape? so we can work our body into good shape?
Pleses omebody explain it to me. or let me hear what you can guess plz.
I understand "to work out" has a lot of meanings. but I'm really curious about what the origin of the word "workout" is.
What do we work when we work out...of course our body. then why was "work" associated with "out" and became the meaning of "physical exercise"?
What kind of images dose "out" have here? like we "work" our body "out" of what? out of bad shape? so we can work our body into good shape?
Pleses omebody explain it to me. or let me hear what you can guess plz.
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Doubting_tommy
shut down, shut up, work out, work up, break down, break up, etc.
Sometimes the dictionary will tell you where the words came from, or you can look at an etymology website.
My guess is that doing hard work like construction (where you have to lift heavy things) resembles lifting weights at a gym.
It is formed, in my opinion, on the pattern of 'run out' or 'play out', in both of which the word out is added to indicate "all the way", "to completion", "exhaustively", or "until nothing is left". Hence, a workout is the expending of effort (that is, working) until no further work can be done. The exhausation of the body thus forms something like a parallel with the exhaustion of, say, supplies.
CJ
What CJ's explaining totally figures to me, this 'out' surely is about completion, then everything makes sense.
and about etymology website, it was a good call! I didn' know the existance of this kind of dictionaries .
Thanks both of you again!
Tommy
Thanks!!
Catherine
Day 1
ok team we have a problem with strength. We are going to WORK this problem OUT by exercising our muscles with weights.
Day 2
Come on team we have to keep WORKing our strength problem OUT.
Day 4
Ok team time to WORK OUT our strength problem
Day 30
Team it's time for another strength WORKOUT.