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DEFINITION: v. To return to the gym in order to get back in shape, only to over-do-it and injure yourself. n. An injury which is the result of an overly ambitious exercise program.
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Bicepticemia
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: by/sep/ti/see/me/a
Sentence: I thought it was only a muscle tear but it turned into the dreaded bicepticemia which ended my fifteen minutes of gym fame.
Etymology: bicep + septicemia
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COMMENTS:
nice one. ABSolutely, good word. - petaj, 2008-05-06: 06:36:00
imPECcable! - galwaywegian, 2008-05-06: 07:48:00
I think I'll muscle in on this one! - OZZIEBOB, 2008-05-06: 17:38:00
J - what sinew with you? good word - Nosila, 2008-05-07: 01:54:00
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Overdude
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: ōvərdoōd
Sentence: It doesn’t take much to get Mickey to overdude his weightlifting routine. Just someone looking his way can cause him to stack on extra weight. The resulting strains and pulls will keep him out of the gym for weeks.
Etymology: overdo (carry to excess; exaggerate) + dude (guy/fool)
Realityache
Created by: pieceof314
Pronunciation: ree-al-ittee-ayk
Sentence: Realityache. Newsome knew it all too well. Who was he kidding? What did he think was going to happen when he finally decided to get off his butt and start working out? Moderation? Nah. With full tilt workouts from the start and after a life of increasing sedentary circumstances, Newsome knew what realityache meant with each excrutiating movement of muscle in his body.
Etymology: reality + ache
Pressfracture
Created by: mrskellyscl
Pronunciation: press-frak-chur
Sentence: Dan sustained a pressfracture when he tried to lift more weights than he should for a guy his age and shape. Adding insult to injury, he would have to endure the ribbing of the guys at the office and the constant "I told you so..." from his wife.
Etymology: press: a weight in weightlifting, to apply force or pressure + fracture: bone break or rupture in the cartilage -- stress fracture: fracture caused by undue stress or pressure on a bone
Aneuricise
Created by: didsbury
Pronunciation: an-yoor-iss-ize
Sentence: I thought I could manage one more rep but I ended up anuericising myself in quite an inconvenient place.
Etymology: Derived and extended from the Latin 'anueri' which was used to described self-abuse in all its unpleasant forms.
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COMMENTS:
Nice word. - OZZIEBOB, 2008-05-06: 17:41:00
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Fitfall
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: fit-fawl
Sentence: Jim had not been in the gym for some time. His major fitfall was being friends with a "gym rat" who pushed him to pursue the same routine that he follows. Jim now has more pulled muscles than the number of muscles he knew he had.
Etymology: fitness (The state or condition of being physically sound and healthy, especially as the result of exercise and proper nutrition) + pitfall (any trap or danger for the unwary)
Gymjure
Created by: ErWenn
Pronunciation: /ˈdʒɪmˌdʒuɹ/ /JIMM-Joor/
Sentence: They told me to stay away from the free weights to avoid gymjury, but nobody warned me not to lean into the turns on the stationary bike.
Etymology: from gym + (in)jure
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COMMENTS:
you must be feeling a bit ginger after that. - petaj, 2008-05-06: 03:38:00
gym gyminie, gym gyminie, gym gymjury (where's purple when you have an annoying song reference) - Jabberwocky, 2008-05-06: 12:27:00
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Weightforsurgery
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: wayt for sur juree
Sentence: Smedley was determined to turn himself from a bookish, skinny nerd into a bronzed, buff love god. Unfortunately, he did not prepare himself properly...his bid to get laser surgery to correct his myopia failed and he needed even stronger glasses. His day at the tanning salon was also a disaster since he looked like a buttered lobster when done. And his weight training at the gym made him tear tendons, ligaments and caused him to become a weightforsurgery case. With any luck he'd be back to his old nerdy self in 6-9 months. He should have left well enough alone!
Etymology: weight (sports equipment used in calisthenic exercises and weightlifting; a weight that is not attached to anything and is raised and lowered by use of the hands and arms) & For Surgery (a medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body) Rhymes with Wait for Surgery...all too common and lengthy a wait these days, sadly)
Musculartorture
Created by: bookowl
Pronunciation: mus/cah/la/tore/chur
Sentence: Musculatorture occurs when the muscles are strained beyond endurance which often happens trying to open the heavy gym doors.
Etymology: musculature + torture
Fitnesschlock
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: fit-ness-shlok
Sentence: Melvin once again found that he is a fitnesschlock, in such lousy physical condition that even moderate exercise caused not only excruciating pain, but left him lying on the couch for days recuperating.
Etymology: Blend of 'fitness' (physical condition) and 'schlock' (of low quality or value)
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Israfaceneeme - 2018-07-07: 19:07:00
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