【老外说】是一档以“采访”老外为主的节目，帮助大家更好的了解中西文化差异，一窥英国人、美国人日常生活。 每周一更新。本栏目适合精听/泛听。可做听写练习。
你喜欢运动吗？每天都会坚持运动吗？今天采访到的这位老外就特别喜欢运动，几乎每天都会去健身房，让我们一起来听他聊聊吧。
I like to eat dark chocolate. Dark chocolate has much less sugar than milk chocolate. I feel like when I eat dark chocolate I can just eat like a little bit and since it's so strong and bitter sometimes, that I could I finished my cravings (渴望) for sugar. And dark chocolate doesn't have that much sugar in it. Already, like I said, so I think it's perfect.
Gwen
So how frequent do you eat a chocolate?
I used to go crazy, for some reason, two months ago in like January, I had a big chocolate craze (一时狂热，疯狂).
Well, I was like I need chocolate right now. So I eat chocolate like a piece every day for the whole month.LoSuWSGRRi But now I'm so sick of it that I don't wanna do it anymore or eat anymore.
Gwen
Lucky for you（你挺幸运）. I never got sick of chocolate. Yeah, I love it so much. I always save a little piece in my refrigerator and every time I got crazy about it, I would sneak (偷偷地走) there and get a piece. Yeah, you know secretly...
Like when I do things...I think a lot of Americans do this, but I kind of do it strategically (战略性地). I like to think that I overindulge (过渡放纵) because I know that if I overindulge in something, that's bad for me, I’d overindulge because then my body will get sick of it. Then I'll hate it naturally instead of just slowly, just taking a little bit and a little bit, I like just making myself hate it.
Gwen
I know that feeling. Every time I listen to a song I love so much and I will listen to it over a hundred times. All of a sudden you get si//www.58yuanyou.comck of it and you stop listening to it.
Exactly. It's like when you find a new song, you’re like ‘dude, this is my favorite song and I will never hate this song. I promise.’ And then you listen to it for like the twentieth time you are like ‘man!’. I know this feeling. I'm starting to hate it.
Gwen
Yeah. Have you been fat? Because you liked eating chocolate that much.
No, I've never really been that fat, to be honest. I've always been kind of skinny. If anything I used to have like a a little bit of a belly, but nothing like obese or anything, just like 原由网a tiny belly.
Gwen
What made you like all of them, like hitting the gym?
I would say, probably by the end of high school, I went with some of my friends before college, because, you know, at least in America, when you go to college, everybody goes to the gym for some reason. I don't know why. It's kind of like a ritual (习惯，老规矩). When you go to college, you start going to the gym. And so I started start going to college and I just been going to gym ever since. I was with my friends for the first time and I'm still going because I know a lot of them stop going after college, like when they graduate. But I feel like I wanna go for much longer than that because I actually enjoy going to the gym.
Gwen
It's a little bit frequent. I thought maybe three times a week would be...because it normally takes up more of your personal time. You know, for example, time for meeting people, being with friends, because you really would take two to three hours in a gym every day. Right? You gotta take a shower after the exercise.
Yeah, that's true. It does take up a decent part of my day that when I first went to the gym my first year, I usually go for so long like two hours, three hours.
And I used to be proud of that. I used to be like, “oh, yeah, I was in the gym for two or three hours today”, but now I've learned that the shorter, less time I spend in the gym,the better, because I don't want to live in the gym. I want the gym to be a part of my life but no I don't want it to be my life. So I like to try and cut myself at about one hour when I worked out. I don’t stay there for too long.
Gwen
During this one hour. What would you do? Just lifting?
What I have been doing is, my first thing I do is I go to the gym and then I go to the treadmill (跑步机)and I run for ten to fifteen minutes.
I like to run, at least for one mile to warm up. So then I start walking, getting my breath back, and then I start heavy lifting. On legs, I will do squats first. But I like to start with like a heavy exercise, but most of it mainly weightlifting (举重). When I first start working out is like the body fats just melt off like the first five weeks. It’s cool, it’s like looking in the mirror and seeing your body change every day when you first start working out.
Gwen
And then, it slows down?
It slows down. Yeah, that's usually what happens in that like first year, I would say. You would make a lot of gains, so a lot of improvements. And then every year after that, it's like slow, much slower, but still noticeable after like a few months. In American they like to call them ‘noob gains’. And that means, ‘ noob (菜鸟)’ stands for new.
Gwen
Newbie?
Yeah, newbie. That's another way you could say it.
Gwen
Do you think going to the gym this whole thing has changed your life?
Yeah, I would say definitely because I like to go to the gym in the morning. And I feel like when I go to the gym like first part of my day, like the rest of my day is so much easier and things like that. Like my day just feels better. I feel better. And you know when I feel better, everything is better basically.
Gwen
So do you go to the gym yourself or with your friend?
I used to go with my friends, but for the past three years I've been going by myself. I feel like I go there faster. Like I don't spend as much time in the gym so I can get out and get in whatever I want. So it's perfect for me because you know, usually when you go with other people, you have to like plan when you wanna go. And then sometimes they can't go after you waited that time. And then you know just a bunch of planswww.58yuanyou.com that I don't like setting up when I can just go myself.
当运动量达到一定程度时，交感神经兴奋，多巴胺增加，会使运动者产生幸福的感觉，这种幸福感让人对运动“上瘾”。你“上瘾”了吗？
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