Kickstart your new year fitness routine with this language guide to working out
Afresh start to the calendar is a symbolic moment to make changes in one’s life. New Year’s Resolutions (新年计划 xīnnián jìhuà), usually to do with accomplishing a personal goal or breaking a bad habit, are becoming more and more popular with young Chinese today.
According to data research software developer Statistica, around 50 percent of Americans made New Year’s Resolutions to exercise more last year, and 48 percent planned to lose weight. In 2016, newspaper China Youth Daily published a similar survey, with 60 percent of Chinese respondents vowing to “keep fit and take care of themselves” after the Lunar New Year.
No Excuses: New Workout Phrases for a New Year is a story from our issue, “Sports for All.” To read the entire issue, become a subscriber and receive the full magazine. Alternatively, you can purchase the digital version from the App Store.
Yang Tingting is a Chinese editor at The World of Chinese. Interested in telling Chinese stories, she writes mainly about culture, language, and society.
