KEEP FIT

My favorite all time number one expression I've heard here is "Keep Fit."

In America keeping fit would be a verb as in: I'm keeping fit, I'm trying to keep fit...

Here in England its a noun. The phrase is one noun.

For example: This weekend I'm doing keep fit.

Seriously.

I met a guy at a party who told me all about his keep fit, he does keep fit once a week in the park with a trainer and he enjoys the fresh air. Since he started doing keep fit he has lost lots of weight and he is sleeping better.

This reminds me of a few other things. Trainers are people you exercise with but they are also Sneakers. Im still confused about the words for sweatpants and I've noticed a distinct lack of sports bras at the gym. Also, pounds are a currency and stones are a measure of weight.

I suppose keep fit is not dissimilar to a work out - we can work out or have a work out - but somehow the use of keep fit is so much more amusing to me. Could a person who has a work out also have a keep fit?

Can you enjoy a keep fit?

"Oh man, I had such a hard keep fit yesterday my arms are still sore!"

So to sum up

work out = keep fit

sneakers = trainers

14 pounds = a stone

sweatpants = track suit bottoms

and oh, to have jane fonda's thighs...