cancer

Definition

A creative street sport played with a crushed soda can and metal posts as goals—basically soccer for people without access to a real ball or institutional approval.

Example Usage

We played cancer during lunch break using the old bike racks as goal posts.

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Intermediate

Work In

Sharing a piece of gym equipment with someone by alternating sets, which requires the social negotiation skills of a UN diplomat and the patience of a Buddhist monk. It's the gym's version of a timeshare, and it's approximately as enjoyable.

⚽ Sports / Fitness

Beginner

training partner

Someone who shares your workout schedule, spots your lifts, and witnesses your gym face at its worst. A relationship built on mutual suffering and the understanding that 'one more rep' is always a lie.

⚽ Sports / Fitness

Intermediate

rmr

Resting Metabolic Rate: the number of calories your body burns just existing in a chair, doing nothing but maintaining life functions. It's the baseline caloric cost of your meat prison before you add actual activity, typically measured first thing in the morning.

⚽ Sports / Fitness

Beginner

DNS

Did Not Start—the race result code for when registration optimism meets reality and you bail before the starting gun. At least you don't have a DNF on your record.

⚽ Sports / Fitness

Advanced

tempo work

Training with prescribed speeds for each phase of a lift, written as eccentric-pause-concentric-pause in seconds. Because apparently just lifting the weight isn't complicated enough.

⚽ Sports / Fitness

Intermediate

training to failure

Continuing a set until you physically cannot complete another rep with proper form, theoretically maximizing muscle stimulus. The point where confidence becomes concentric weakness.

⚽ Sports / Fitness

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