Definition

Personal Best — the number you're constantly chasing and the reason you keep adding "just one more plate" until you're pinned under a barbell like a cartoon character under an anvil. Breaking your PB feels like winning the Olympics, even if nobody else noticed.

Example Usage

"I hit a new PB on my squat and celebrated like I'd just won the lottery, while everyone else in the gym continued to not care even slightly."

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Intermediate

One Rep Max

The heaviest weight you can lift exactly once before your body sends you a strongly-worded cease-and-desist letter. It's the gym's version of a high score, and people will exaggerate theirs with the same confidence as fishermen describing the one that got away.

⚽ Sports / Fitness
Intermediate

HIIT

High-Intensity Interval Training, a workout method that alternates between going as hard as humanly possible and desperately gasping for air. It promises maximum results in minimum time, which is fitness-speak for maximum suffering in minimum time.

⚽ Sports / Fitness
Intermediate

pyramid sets

A set structure where you progressively increase weight while decreasing reps (ascending), or vice versa (descending), or both (triangle). Math class meets the weight room.

⚽ Sports / Fitness
Intermediate

Hit the Wall

The devastating moment during endurance exercise when your body decides it is absolutely done and no amount of motivational self-talk will change its mind. Your legs turn to concrete, your brain demands surrender, and every step feels like walking through peanut butter.

⚽ Sports / Fitness
Advanced

deco

Dive industry shorthand for decompression, the critical process where divers make calculated stops during ascent to avoid getting the bends. These mandatory pauses let dissolved nitrogen safely leave the bloodstream, turning what could be a quick trip to the surface into a patience-testing, depth-scheduled ascent. Skipping deco stops can result in decompression sickness, which is both medically serious and embarrassingly preventable for trained divers.

⚽ Sports / Fitness
Advanced

Tempo

The speed at which you perform each phase of a lift, turning a simple bicep curl into a mathematical equation involving seconds, phases, and existential patience. Slow tempo means the weight feels three times heavier and the set lasts approximately forever.

⚽ Sports / Fitness

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