leg day
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5.5
- noun
- Jargon
:
día de piernas
- Leg day, smashed!
So today it's going to be a good leg day.
- So today it's going to be a good leg day.
- Although if it is, you must really have to limber up before leg day.
- It's work, but it's amazing in the sense that you recover very well from the leg day.
- Same for my push day, same for my leg day, Although if I'm honest, I'm far less varied on my leg day.
- I worked out early this morning and leg day and it sucked.
Examples
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Same for my push day, same for my leg day, Although if I'm honest, I'm far less varied on my leg day.
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Someone didn't skip leg day.
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What might a work a leg day workout look like?
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All right, all right, freaky leg day, am I right?
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- How many leg days have you skipped?
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- Who never skips leg day?
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Same for my push day, same for my leg day, Although if I'm honest, I'm far less varied on my leg day.
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He definitely doesn't skip leg day.
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Today is leg day, so I'll focus on squats and lunges to build strength in my lower body.
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After a tough leg day, I can definitely feel my muscles getting stronger.
How Intense
Surface Forms
Morphology
The compound 'leg day' is directly built from 'leg' (the lower-body region) plus 'day' (a day set aside for an activity), so the meaning 'a day reserved for exercising the legs' is compositional and immediately inferable. The 'X day' pattern is productive in English (e.g., rest day, chest day) and parallels organizational expressions in many languages, so a B1 learner who knows the constituents will understand it.
Etymology
The phrase leg day comes from gym training where people set one day to work only on their legs, often doing heavy squats and lunges. So, leg day means 'a day for exercising the legs' because the image of tired, sore legs after that workout makes the meaning easy to remember.